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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (857834)5/17/2015 1:48:54 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1573213
 
Note the "and rules" part.

Also government and government funded organizations almost always respond to their failures with "we needed more money, and if you give us more now we can prevent a repeat". There isn't any good reason to think that more overall budget money going to Amtrak would have gone in to safety rather then a lot of less important things Amtrak is prone to spend money on.

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The crash spotlighted other possible shortcomings in Amtrak’s safety system, officials said. The stretch of track where Train 188 crashed heading north was equipped with an older automatic braking system, but only on the southbound side, an official briefed on the investigation said. Some senior Amtrak officials did not become aware that the braking system had not been installed on the northbound side until after the train derailed.

So they couldn't even keep track of the safety systems they did and did not have installed.

Railroad officials said Thursday that installation of the safety system on tracks across the country was also hampered for more than a year by longstanding F.C.C. rules that required environmental and preservation reviews before the safety system’s antennas could be installed in historic areas or near tribal lands.

More big government red tape getting in the way.

The commission also defended its handling of Amtrak’s petition to acquire wireless frequencies, asserting that it had taken Amtrak three years to negotiate the purchase and that the commission had approved the deal within days.

So at least according to the FCC its Amtrak's fault the spectrum wasn't in place.
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