The commission issued the order authorizing the supplemental appropriation on Thursday, just under two weeks after the Illinois Department of Transportation accepted a $68.9 million bid for project construction.
. a week ago today a speeding commuter train derailed killing dozens. the company is order iing a slowdown. here is cnn chris freights. as passengers rush through their morning commute. engineer jeff kleins gets ready to get responsibility for hundreds of people s lives. what were you watching coming out of the station. signals, crossing protection, the gates, pedestrians.
up. meanwhile the obama care s front page is sporting a new design that is supposed to actually make it easier to use. well, if you hop on a train, your commute morning or whenever you commute, your life is in the hands of the engineer, the deadly commuter train wreck in the bronx last weekend now shedding new light on the high-pressure duties of driving trains. we talked to a chicago man who guides a million pound commuter train while carefully balancing signals, speed, and safety. reporter: as passengers rush through their morning commute engineer jeff cline scales 12 feet into this locomotive and gets ready to take responsibility. for hundreds of peoples lives. with the throttle and two brakes, cline alone controls this 1 million pound behemoth during its three-hour run. and he s got a lot on his mind. what were you watching coming out of the station? the signals. crossings. crossing protection, the gates,
on their seats. the plane tried landing twice before diverting to another airport. and just days after that train derailed in new york, killing four people, we ve heard the words like highway hypnosis and in a daze, when it comes to that operator. even though we still don t know exactly what happened in those crucial moments before that crash, cnn s chris freights gets a behind the scenes look in the front of a commuter train. as passengers rushed through their morning commute, engineer jeff klein scales 12 feet into this locomotive and gets ready to take responsibility for hundreds of people s lives. with a throttle and two brakes, klein alone controls this 1 million pound behemoth in his three-hour run. and he s got a lot on his mind. what were you watching coming out of the station? signals. crossings. crossing protection, the gates. pedestrians.