There’s a four-way race for Parker County’s Precinct 4 commissioner seat, as candidates look to replace Steve Dugan’s position: Michael Chandler, Mike Hale, Fred Hammons and Eric Contreras. Each candidate
There’s a four-way race for Parker County’s Precinct 4 commissioner seat, as candidates look to replace Steve Dugan’s position: Michael Chandler, Mike Hale, Fred Hammons and Eric Contreras. Each candidate
as people are trying to make their way down this i-5 corridor. looking to get still more information on this one, just give you an idea of what people were seeing on the ground. appreciate that and stay with us. raise your hand when we have more. richard biel, railroad operations and safety expert. back with me on the phone. richard, you heard mary earlier. the cascades train is supposed to be running south and they are trying to run at higher speeds. from your experience, what kind of testing? would there be trial runs? what would go into this before what we are watching right now. when you do something like that on track without the passenger service or haven t had it in a while, they would run a series of tests in advance that wouldn t have people on it. to see what they could do to maintain the schedules or see what they could do about different places where there might be restrictions on the track or slow orders on curves
i tend to not believe that two are necessary at all times. there are a number of railroad operations around the world where there is a single driver in the cab. and they appear to be quite safe. but they also have a very robust train control system to prevent accidents. the positive train control system, had it be installed on this line and had it been functioning would have, indeed, prevented the accident. an additional engineer sometimes can or an additional person in the cab sometimes can prove to be a distraction. the budget keeps getting cut for amtrak, they can t but the other side of this, the track was inspected just the day before. some say this is about creating