{"id":25609,"date":"2015-05-15T10:16:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T14:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25609"},"modified":"2015-05-15T10:16:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T14:16:31","slug":"i-guess-the-technology-had-already-been-funded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25609","title":{"rendered":"I Guess The Technology Had Already Been Funded"},"content":{"rendered":"

US News & World Report<\/a> reported yesterday that the section of the railway track where the Amtrak<\/a> train crashed did have a computer system that allows speeding trains to be slowed remotely. Unfortunately, the system was not turned on at the time.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

“The PTC<\/a> was installed in the section of track where the Philadelphia<\/a> accident occurred, but for whatever reason had not been turned on, the PTC in that section,\u201d Rep.<\/a> Charlie Dent<\/a>, R-Pa., tells U.S. News, referring to “positive train control.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

His account was corroborated by Rep. Andy Harris<\/a>, R-Md.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe tracks had PTC, the train had PTC,\u201d Harris says.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Both congressmen are members of the House Appropriations Committee<\/a>, which contacted Amtrak for more information about the crash.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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“According to Amtrak, PTC was installed in the section of track where the Philly accident occurred,” a committee source writes in an email to U.S. News. “There have been delays in ‘turning it on’ associated with FCC<\/a> dealings and getting the bandwidth to upgrade the radios from 900 MHz<\/a> to something higher (for more reliability).”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amtrak’s application for the\u00a0bandwidth needed\u00a0to use the positive train control\u00a0system was\u00a0approved in “early March,” an FCC official\u00a0says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Because speed has been cited as a major cause of this tragic crash, this is critical information. Somehow, this has not been widely mentioned in the discussion.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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