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Few Railroads On Track To Meet EndEnd-Of-Year Safety Deadline 只有少数铁路安全年间达标

Few Railroads On Track To Meet End-Of-Year Safety Deadline The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority tests its Positive Train Control system at the agencys rail yard near Malvern, Pa. The system will cost SEPTA about $328 million. The regional passenger railroad is one of the few in the country that are on track to meet an end-of-the-year deadline for installing PTC. Jeff Brady/NPR Railroads warn they may have to shut down unless Congress extends an end-of-the-year deadline to install new safety equipment called?Positive Train Control. PTC is a complex system that monitors a trains location and speed, then automatically slows down or stops a locomotive if the engineer doesnt respond to a danger warning. Congress required passenger and freight railroads to install PTC in 2008, after?a Metrolink passenger train collided with a freight train in Los Angeles, killing 25 people. It also would have?slowed down the fast-moving Amtrak train?that derailed earlier this year in Philadelphia, killing eight. The?2008 Rail Safety Improvement Act?set a deadline of Dec. 31, 2015, for railroads to implement PTC systems — or face big fines. Metrolink is among the few railroads expected to meet the deadline, according to a?Government Accountability Office report. Other passenger railroads on track to finish by the end of the year include Caltrain, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, known as SEPTA, and TriMet in Oregon. SEPTA locomotive engineer Steve Finnegan remains in control of a train using PTC. But if SEPTA reduces speed on a certain set of track or sends an order for the train to stop and he fails to comply, PTC will do it automatically. Jeff Brady/NPR Amtrak expects to have PTC installed by the deadline along the Northeast Corridor — between Washington, D.C., and Boston — and on its line between New York and Harrisburg, Pa. The mandate is most expensive for freight railroads, which have tens of thousands of miles of track to include in their PTC sys