Do yourself a favor by treating the 10-110 freeway interchange in downtown
L.A. on Saturday as if it’s a fang-mouthed sand monster right out of the third “Star Wars” movie.
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A Metrolink engineer sent a text message from his cellphone 22 seconds before he collided with an oncoming freight train in an accident that killed 25 people last month, according to preliminary information released Wednesday by federal authorities.
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California | Local |
By Steve Hymon |
September 26, 2008
In his most extensive public statement since the deadly Chatsworth train crash, Metrolink Chief Executive David
R. Solow said today that his agency would consider immediately installing devices that could halt or slow trains when a collision was imminent.
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Metrolink should add a second engineer to its locomotives, install anti-collision technology and place an additional video camera in the cab of its engines to monitor train drivers, according to a motion supported by several Los Angeles city and county officials.
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Spurred by the deadly head-on crash of two trains in Chatsworth, congressional negotiators agreed Tuesday to a groundbreaking rail safety reform bill requiring many passenger and freight trains to be equipped with technology that can automatically prevent collisions.
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California | Local |
By Steve Hymon |
September 20, 2008
The commuter rail service known as Metrolink – Southern California’s only true regional mass transit carrier – gets little money and even less political respect.
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Federal investigators said Wednesday that records from Metrolink engineer Robert
M. Sanchez’s cellphone show that he sent and received text messages while on duty Friday, the day he was involved in a catastrophic train collision in Chatsworth.
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California | Local |
By Steve Hymon |
September 15, 2008
Metrolink has amassed the most fatalities among commuter railroads of similar size in the United States over the last decade, a statistic boosted in part by three deadly train collisions in the past five years, according to federal reports.
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California | Local |
By Steve Hymon |
September 15, 2008
Here’s a question to ponder: Who is smarter – legislators in San Francisco or Los Angeles?
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Friday’s disastrous collision that took the lives of at least 25 people could have been prevented if Metrolink and the region’s freight railroads had installed sophisticated warning and control devices, according to safety experts who have been calling for such improvements for decades.
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