So the final analysis, even if, under the best case scenario, the Government was flush with money and every private rail company were flush with money, it would take multiple billions of dollars and many years to get from where we are to where we want to be on Positive Train Control across the Nation on every line. Is that a fair assessment?
Capuano emphasizes the extensive costs and time needed for nationwide Positive Train Control implementation.
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There will be no more bottom lines on whether it was worth the money to not do PTC and possibly risk lives or property.
If your bosses told you to do something and you didn't do it for 8 years, how long do you think you would be employed?
You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They would be carried out on a stretcher, folks.
What is difficult for me to understand is the obsession on just one border, and the obsession on only one fix to the issue there.
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