Class I railroads looking to shutdown all operations over looming PTC deadline

[Dakguy201]

nyc#25

The "government bozo" is Sara Fienberg who is the acting adminstrator

of the FRA.  She apparantly has no idea of how a shutdown would

affect the commerce of the nation.

 

 

Ms. Feinberg is a political operative whose background is a staffer for former Senate Leader Tom Dashle, former White House Chief of Staff Rahn Emanuel and Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx.   As a matter of law, her position "shall be an individual with professional experience in railroad safety, hazardous materials safety, or other transportation safety."   It is unclear to me just where she might have attained such experience.  

[tree68]

Buslist

And of course the lack of available equipment and frequencies, nor the inability for defense/aerospace firms (Lockheed Martin and GE Harris) to produce a workable system doesn't contribute.

Indeed - while it's a great concept, making it actually work, and at the scale it needs to work, is another story entirely.  It's already been reported that the railroads are "running as fast as they can."  I've seen much evidence of same in this area.  

But if there are key parts of the system that are not available, whether for technical or legal reasons, it becomes very hard to meet the deadline.

[Euclid]

caldreamer

The shutdown will NOT happen.  The senate has allreadypassed an extention through 2018.  When the hosue comes back from it's Ausgust recess it is expected to pass the bill, so don;t get your insides all in an uproar over nothing.

 

Can you provide a source reference that explains this?  If what you say is true, there is no deadline.

[caldreamer]

The shutdown will NOT happen.  The senate has allreadypassed an extention through 2018.  When the hosue comes back from it's Ausgust recess it is expected to pass the bill, so don;t get your insides all in an uproar over nothing.

[Buslist]

schlimm

The rails have resisted this for 40+ years.  They've known the deadline was there for 4 years.  Sometimes threats are needed for foot draggers.

 

And of course the lack of available equipment and frequencies, nor the inability for defense/aerospace firms (Lockheed Martin and GE Harris) to produce a workable system doesn't contribute.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

nyc#25

The "government bozo" is Sara Fienberg who is the acting adminstrator

of the FRA.  She apparantly has no idea of how a shutdown would

affect the commerce of the nation.

The administrator did not write the statute.  She may well be aware of the consequences involved but doesn't have a lot of options in enforcing the law as written since not enforcing the statute could establish a lot of unintended precedents for other issues.

[schlimm]

The rails have resisted this for 40+ years.  They've known the deadline was there for 4 years.  Sometimes threats are needed for foot draggers.

[nyc#25]

The "government bozo" is Sara Fienberg who is the acting adminstrator

of the FRA.  She apparantly has no idea of how a shutdown would

affect the commerce of the nation.

[CMStPnP]

Real nice hit for the Economy if this happens.    Who is the government bozo in DC that is refusing to grant them an exemption?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-safety-deadline-may-exempt-050847710.html