Sentences with word «derailment»

That was the question on the minds of many New Yorkers Tuesday following a subway train derailment in Harlem that injured 39 people and caused service disruptions across several lines.

There have been a number of high - profile derailments of trains — including one by UP — carrying shale oil, much of which is produced in new drilling areas without established pipeline networks and must be moved by rail.

This comes after recent train derailments in Harlem and in Brooklyn.

Deputy Senate Minority Leader Mike Gianaris (D - Queens) said Tuesday's MTA terrifying subway derailment in Harlem made approval of emergency funds to repair the «crumbling» transit system even more essential.

The move is meant to crack down on numerous delays along the MTA's subway system, which has also suffered a series of derailments causing minor injuries, including an incident on the A Train earlier this week.

Two recent train derailments at Pennsylvania Station in New York that created major travel disruptions were caused by track defects of which Amtrak officials were previously aware, increasing concerns about the aging infrastructure at North America's busiest train station.

After a G train derailment on Friday, the chairman blasted the city for «only» offering $ 657 million and said he was «tired of writing letters to city officials that result only in vague calls for more conversations.»

I watched the train waiting for derailment, and as expected, it finally happened near the end.

Families of victims of the recent derailment of the Indore - Patna Express who had signed up can make claims.

De Blasio seemed to think being on site was important when, as mayor - elect, he ripped his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, for not heading to the site of a Metro North derailment in the Bronx.

Additionally, these assessments measure your personality characteristics, risk of career derailment, core values, and cognitive style.

Reading this book, readers will get warnings about four mistakes that companies commonly make — blindness to interactions between systems, getting locked in to existing ways of doing business, falling victim to cognitive biases, and derailment by short - termism.

Because starting with this state of mind will keep your efforts safe from derailment from doubt, second - guessing, and defaulting back to diapers (when you're actually about to be finished!).

CN said the latest derailment occurred 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Gogama, which is some 373 miles (600 km) north of Toronto.

It was the latest in a series of North American derailments involving trains hauling crude oil, raising concerns about rail safety.

David Haynes, The Cochran Firm, D.C.'s managing attorney, was recently interviewed on the national TV and radio show Ring of Fire regarding the tragic Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia on May 12, 2015.

Why does career derailment happen?

We've taken more than 30 actions in the last two years to continue to address risk, and we continue to push the industry to do more to prevent derailments from happening,» said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.

The public's reservations around rail — heightened following the deadly derailment in Lac - Megantic, Que.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo arrives on the scene of a fatal passenger train derailment near the Spuyten Duyvil station in the Bronx neighborhood of New York.

Today, Albany County Executive Dan McCoy renewed his warnings about such derailments.

My 11/8 blog piece recapped six problems seen with a single paragraph written by Ross Gelbspan in a 2005 Mother Jones article, and went on to tell about another of his major narrative derailments.

«Derailed: Anatomy of a Scene» (10:01, HD) looks at the movie's big train derailment scene, with a focus on how badly Scott wanted to «make it real.»

Though no injuries were recorded in the freight derailment, which occurred north of Dupont St and east of Bathurst St, the event underscores the fact that train accidents in Canada cause dozens of serious injuries each year, that they are often preventable, and that a personal injury lawyer can help.

Service interruptions, track fires and derailments became so commonplace last year that Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the MTA in June, and a month later the agency's newly reappointed chairman Joe Lhota released an $ 836 billion Subway Action Plan that aimed to bring immediate changes and upgrades to the system.

The public debate in Albany echoes concerns raised elsewhere that the trains pose a risk of spills and fiery derailments like the one in Quebec last year.

Mr. Hallman, the spokesman for Canadian National, did not respond to questions about the safety of tank cars or the consequences of the Lac - Mégantic derailment for rail oil shipments in general.

There were moments of jeopardy, two rail derailments of freight trains, which affected the journeys.

Experts says positive train control could have prevented the fatal Amtrack derailment outside Philadelphia last year.

Kevin Ryder, a 30 - year - old railroad lineman, was working on power lines after a train derailment when he suffered severe electrical injuries resulting in the loss of both hands.

An officer assists an injured passenger from an earlier LIRR derailment at Atlantic Terminal Wednesday morning.

Just days after a Harlem subway train derailment last month where more than 30 people were injured, Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the city's subways.

Virginia Burkett, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist who co-authored a 2008 study on climate change's impact to transportation systems on the Gulf Coast, said last week that an average temperature change of 2 or 3 °F in the Gulf Coast region could have a significant effect on train tracks buckling, causing more derailments.

The fiery derailment of a 106 - car oil train in North Dakota on Monday is the latest manifestation of the perils that come with expanding shipments of the country's Bakken oil bounty by rail.

Federal investigators have determined that the engineers in two recent, high - profile derailments involving the LIRR and NJ Transit suffered from a sleep disorder, according to newly released public documents.

According to a 2007 federal safety review of the railway industry, during the early 2000s the number of railway accidents in Canada — particularly main track derailments — sharply increased.

Yet, if you do not acknowledge the ambiguous environment and its potential derailment, people will not believe that you are living in reality.

A 2009 report by the National Transportation Safety Board about a Canadian National derailment in Illinois called the design of those tank cars «inadequate» and found that it «made the cars subject to damage and catastrophic loss of hazardous materials.»

«Our city's annual loss of $ 307 million to preventable subway delays is a critical derailment of the economic lives of many businesses and New Yorkers, particularly those from economically challenged communities who feel any hit to their wallet harder than those with access to alternate commuting options,» said Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who requested the study.

A Q train with 135 passengers on board derailed in Brighton Beach during this morning's morning commute — the second derailment at that location in as many weeks, sources and transit officials said.

Late last month, a group called Common Sense NYS, of which Mr. Wilson is a part, unveiled a slick video that highlighted several recent subway problems, including derailments.

A boom in oil shipments by rail and a spate of derailments across North America have put heightened focus on rail safety.

On 10th November 2010 the ORR began criminal proceedings against Network Rail Infrastructure Limited and Jarvis Rail Limited for breaches of health and safety law which caused the Potters Bar derailment on 10th May 2002 in which seven people were killed and many more seriously injured.

The study failed to mention the city's laundry list of ongoing transportation - related issues — numerous derailments at Penn Station, its tardiness in completing $ 100 million in road projects that has caused crippling traffic around JFK and La Guardia airports, and subway delays that cost residents as much as $ 389 million a year in lost wages and productivity.

«Safety is our highest priority, and we must do everything we can to learn from this tragic crash and help prevent future derailments,» said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.

Despite the record heat, the number of sun kink - related derailments in 2012 was 29, down from the 46 in 2011.

Investigations have determined that the conductors in both accidents — a September 2016 New Jersey Transit crash in Hoboken, New Jersey, that killed one person and a January 2017 Long Island Railroad derailment in Brooklyn that injured more than 100 — fell asleep on the job due to the chronic condition.

PTC systems are designed to prevent certain train - to - train collisions, over-speed derailments, incursions into established work zone limits, and trains going to the wrong tracks due to improper switching.

Mr. Ringler served as co-lead counsel in the Glendale Metrolink Derailment Disaster coordinated mass tort action involving eleven deaths and over one - hundred injuries which at the time was the largest commuter rail disaster in our nation's history.