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Here is a good article and conversation about the PTC controversy: <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/15/4226264/positive-train-control-controversy">http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/15/4226264/positive-train-control-controversy</a> Quote from the article makes a good point about deaths in train wrecks versus deaths in car accidents: It’s difficult, however, to argue against a technology that could save lives. A passenger on a derailed train in 2003 recently <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-04-09/news/ct-met-metra-collision-prevention-20130409_1_metra-rock-island-ptc-safety-system" target="_blank">told the Chicago Tribune</a>, "I think somebody’s life is a lot more important than dollars." But Banks isn’t so sure. "Yes, I think the railroads should be as safe as possible," he said. "But it’s insane to force railroads to spend billions in private capital on this project when less than 40 people have died in the last decade in [U.S.] rail collisions while nearly <a href="http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811706.pdf" target="_blank">40,000 people get killed on the highways</a> every year."
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