NJ Transit Says It Will Miss Deadline for Safer Train Technology
A New Jersey Transit train in Newark, New Jersey.
Photographer: John Taggart/Bloomberg
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Lifesaving technology aboard New Jersey Transit trains won’t be in place by a Dec. 31 deadline set by Congress, the agency’s executive director told board members.
The operator of the nation’s second-biggest commuter railroad, which leads its peers for accidents and federal safety fines, instead will shoot for a two-year extension for the project known as positive train control from the Federal Railroad Administration, according to a memo to the board by Executive Director Kevin Corbett.