frankford, philadelphia. and brandon boyle represents parts of the philly area as well right nearby. congressman, you re the leader of the city politically, you are. what are you going to do about this? talk about this ptc thing? well, it s positive train control is a device that if it s in the engine and it s on the poles, it would have stopped the train. so it s a deadman switch? exactly. amtrak had it in the locomotive, but not on the pole. in 2008 we passed a law that all 100 railroads have to have this ptc in place by 2015. now the first i want to go back, i want to talk to the department of transportation. i want to ask for a public system-wide audit of where they re at, why don t these trains visit. it s supposed to be in hazmat trains and passenger trains. the delay you see today costs lives. and we can t get any more delay. they ve got the money. you re going to make it law? it is law. they re dragging their feet. what s frustrating is we took a tour at ntsb and am
democratic congressmen from pennsylvania, robert brady represents the district where we re stand right now in frankford, philadelphia. and brandon boyer represents parts of the philly area as well right nearby. congressman, you re the leader of the city politically, you are. what are you going to do about this? talk about this ptc thing? well it s positive train control is a device that if it s in the engine and it s on the poles, it would have stopped the train. so it s a deadman switch? exactly. amtrak had it in the locomotive but not on the pole. in 2008 we passed a law that all 100 railroads have to have this ptc in place by 2015. now the first i want to go back i want to talk to the department of transportation. i want to ask for a public system-wide audit of where they re at why don t these trains visit. it s supposed to be in hazmat trains and passenger trains. the delay you see today costs lives. and we can t get any more delay.
means when they say safe. when they keep assuring us that offshore drilling in deep water is so safe now. the big blowout preventer that didn t work in 2001, a transocean report showed there could be as many as 260 failure possibilities in that piece of equipment. that s supposed to be the failsafe if all else fails, remember, and it s got 260 different possible fail points. the blowout preventer s hydraulic system did fail, meaning it was physically incapable of doing its job, which was crimping off the pipe spewing oil. it also has a deadman switch if other systems fail. that deadman switch was hooked up to a dead battery. the engineering diagrams of this blowout preventer, trying to figure out how to activate it with those robot subs, remember, after it failed? the diagrams they were consulting were completely out of date. the thing had been modified so much it didn t look anything like the plans that they were consulting to figure out how to
the oil disaster showed us exactly what the oil industry means when they say safe. when they keep assuring us that offshore drilling in deep water is so safe now. the big blowout preventer that didn t work in 2001, a trance ocean report shows there could be as many as 260 failure possibilities in that piece of gimt. that s supposed to be the failsafe if all else fails, remember, and it s got 260 different possible fail points. the blowout preventer s hydraulic system did fail, meaning it was inkaleabcapable doing its job. it also has a deadman switch if other systems fail. that switch was hooked up to a dead battery. the engineering diagrams of this blowout preventer, trying to activate it with the robot subs after it failed, the diagrams were completely out of date. the thing had been modified so much it didn t look anything like the plans that they were