Sentences with phrase «track derailments»

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Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said about 5,000 of the most dangerous tank cars will be pulled off the tracks within a month, part of a series of measures in response to recommendations by the Transportation Safety Board in the wake of last summer's deadly derailment and fire in Lac Megantic, Que.

New York City commuters are dealing with transit issues on multiple fronts this summer, including delays and derailments on the MTA - run subway system and track upgrades at Penn Station causing further problems for Long Island - bound travelers.

After two derailments at Pennsylvania Station, Amtrak officials are considering closing tracks at the station for an extended period to make long - term repairs — a drastic move that would cause huge disruptions for tens of thousands of commuters.

Two New York City subway supervisors were suspended without pay today — a day after a derailment in Manhattan that injured 34 people and was blamed on a piece of unsecured replacement track, the transit authority said.

The MTA said a preliminary investigation determined the cause of yesterday's subway derailment, which injured dozens of people, was an improperly secured piece of equipment on the tracks.

Following a summer filled with terrible commutes, caused by everything from track fires to derailments, the mayor announced a proposal to fund the modernization of the subway system by taxing the city's wealthiest earners.

From derailments and track fires to stalled trains and power outages, New Yorkers have seen it all.

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.

If there were any lingering doubts about the urgency of the comprehensive repairs to the tracks at Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan, the derailment of another commuter train on Thursday night should have quashed them.

The MTA blamed human error for the derailment and suspended two maintenance track supervisors without pay after an unsecured, improperly stored scrap rail on the express tracks caused two cars of the eight - car train to leave the track.

Myriad delays and derailments have led Amtrak to take the drastic step of closing Amtrak tracks this summer.

It seemed everybody in New York City was talking about a subway derailment that left dozens injured, hundreds walking along perilous subway tracks and thousands with delayed commutes Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Two New York City subway supervisors were suspended without pay on Wednesday, a day after a derailment in Manhattan that injured 34 people and was blamed on a piece of unsecured replacement track, the transit authority said.

State and federal inspectors have completed a second round of safety checks of train tracks and oil tanker cars in an effort to prevent derailments and spills of volatile crude from North Dakota's Bakken region.

An LIRR derailment in Brooklyn injured more than 100 people, and was reminiscent of a deadly crash in September in which a New Jersey Transit train plowed through a bumper at the end of a track at Hoboken Terminal, killing a woman and injuring more than 100 people.

Lhota, who recently began his second stint as head of the beleaguered MTA, attributed the smoke to track garbage ignited by sparks from the derailment.

The request follows recent track breakdowns and derailments at the station Amtrak owns and maintains.

Connecticut Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty, a Democrat from the 5th District, said that investigators are still attempting to determine if the derailment was caused by track in disrepair or another factor.

Emergency crews & DEC officials have responded to a CSX Train derailment in The Mohawk valley this morning, where 2 dozen cars fell off the tracks, spilling loads on adjacent State Route 5 at around 8:00 this morning.

Given the increased centrifugal force created by the high speeds around curves, it is also advisable to increase the height of embankments around curves and widen the track gauge to prevent derailments.

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 heat waves that scorched much of the U.S. in 2012 — the hottest year on record in the continental U.S. — and the sun kinks they created caused enough derailments that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) issued a special safety advisory that summer warning railroads that they should be sure to inspect buckling - prone sections of track.

Sun kinks and other track buckling incidents are among the costliest the rail industry deals with today, with damage running roughly $ 1 million per derailment, excluding injuries, fatalities and evacuations, Kish said.

A runaway train transporting deadly toxic chemicals is headed for Scranton, Pennsylvania where a sharp bend in the track is almost certain to cause a derailment in a densely - populated area.

The resulting system would be used to provide better engineering assessments of tracks, ballast and other aspects that might lead to risk of derailment.

PTC technology can prevent certain train - to - train collisions, over-speed derailments, incursions into established work zones, and trains routed to the wrong tracks because a switch was left in the wrong position.

I hope the track is well set and the train derailments don't stop you guys from delivering the goods.

We were here on the tracks a year after the Mosier oil train derailment and nothing has changed,» said Jessie Braverman.

If the Chicago Transit Authority's efforts at better - maintaining its tracks and preventing derailments is successful, as explained in a Chicago Tribune article, there will be less work for Chicago injury lawyers.