US: Sens Booker and Menendez Calling for Federal Review of Train Safety

    Jan. 9, 2017
    U.S. Sens. Cory Booker and Robert Menendez are calling for a federal review of all passenger railroads’ implementation of sleep apnea testing of engineers and inward facing cameras in the wake of major accidents in Hoboken and Brooklyn.

    Source Press of Atlantic City

    U.S. Sens. Cory Booker and Robert Menendez are calling for a federal review of all passenger railroads’ implementation of sleep apnea testing of engineers and inward facing cameras in the wake of major accidents in Hoboken and Brooklyn.

    The two Democratic senators from New Jersey, as well as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., sent a letter to the National Transportation Safety Board asking that a comprehensive report be submitted to Congress identifying railroads that have been slow to act on the testing and cameras.

    Booker and Menendez sit on subcommittees that deal with rail safety and mass transit, respectively.

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