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To: Brumar89 who wrote (856676)	5/13/2015 8:39:29 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574854

They are. They also get the credit for the one we are building here. November 16, 2010 Schwarzenegger: We'll take other states' high-speed rail funds If other states don't want their share of federal money for high-speed rail, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told the federal government today, California would happily take it off their hands. "It is with a certain sense of astonishment that we note recent announcements from some of our gubernatorial colleagues that they are uninterested in federal contributions to their high-speed rail systems," Schwarzenegger said in a letter to U.S. Secretary of Transportation Raymond LaHood. "You are more than welcome to redirect that money to California - where we know how to use it to generate hundreds of thousands of jobs and provide a clean, fast and low-cost way to travel." Read more here: blogs.sacbee.com == Currently Available Technology May Have Prevented Fatal Amtrak Crash. But Congress Never Funded It. But chronically cash-strapped Amtrak has struggled to put in place its Advanced Civil Speed Enforcement System (ACSES) PTC technology system on the timetable it planned. Its president said in 2012 that, “PTC is the most important rail safety advancement of our time and Amtrak is strongly committed to its expanded use to enhance safety for our passengers, employees and others with whom we share the tracks across our national network,” but to date much of the Amtrak-owned Northeast Corridor still lacks the ACSES system. A spokesman for the Federal Railroad Administration told ThinkProgress that “The area of track where [Tuesday’s] accident occurred does not have PTC” in place yet.