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By TOM NAMAKO Transit Reporter
Last Updated: 3:06 AM, March 1, 2010
Posted: 3:06 AM, March 1, 2010
It's the great train robbery -- and the feds are the stickup artists. Federal and congressional officials are demanding that the cash-strapped MTA drop $700 million on a safety program for Metro-North and LIRR that the agency insists it doesn't need, according to sources and memos. The feds want a system installed that allows a computer to reduce a train's speed in a number of situations. The MTA trains are already equipped with a similar system, but it kicks in only when one is in danger of crashing into another. The money would come from the MTA's 2010 capital program, the budget that funds mega-projects like the Second Avenue Subway and currently has a $10 billion funding gap.
If Conductors are in charge, why are they promoted to be Engineer???
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