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Independent Panel to Study Metrolink Safety
Author: S.S. Sam Taylor
Date: 10-10-2008 - 16:10
11-person panel named to study Metrolink safety
The group was formed in response to the Chatsworth Metrolink crash
that killed 25 people. A report on improving operations is due in 60 days.
By Jeff Gottlieb
Staff Writer
Los Angeles Times: Friday, October 10, 2008
In the wake of the devastating Chatsworth train crash
last month, Metrolink's board today appointed an
11-person panel of industry experts to take a
comprehensive look at commuter rail safety and operating procedures.
The panel, consisting of people from industry
and academia as well as a passenger advocate,
is supposed to issue a draft report in 60 days.
Improvements that can be made more quickly are
expected to be forwarded to Metrolink in seven to 10 days.
Creation of the panel was one of the Metrolink
board's first acts in response to the Sept. 12
accident, in which a commuter train crashed
head-on into a Union Pacific freight that was
sharing the same track. Federal accident
investigators say the Metrolink engineer did
not heed a red light warning signal and that
just before impact he was sending and receiving
text messages on his cellphone. In the collision,
25 people were killed and 135 injured.
The panel will be headed by Peter Cannito, retired
president of Metro North Railroad in New York, and
Don Sepulveda of HNTB Corp., an international
architecture, transportation and engineering company
based in Kansas City, Mo.
The panel's facilitator will be Linda Bohlinger, vice
president and national director of management consulting for HNTB.
Metrolink has allocated $250,000 for the study.
jeff.gottlieb@latimes.com
The group was formed in response to the Chatsworth Metrolink crash
that killed 25 people. A report on improving operations is due in 60 days.
By Jeff Gottlieb
Staff Writer
Los Angeles Times: Friday, October 10, 2008
In the wake of the devastating Chatsworth train crash
last month, Metrolink's board today appointed an
11-person panel of industry experts to take a
comprehensive look at commuter rail safety and operating procedures.
The panel, consisting of people from industry
and academia as well as a passenger advocate,
is supposed to issue a draft report in 60 days.
Improvements that can be made more quickly are
expected to be forwarded to Metrolink in seven to 10 days.
Creation of the panel was one of the Metrolink
board's first acts in response to the Sept. 12
accident, in which a commuter train crashed
head-on into a Union Pacific freight that was
sharing the same track. Federal accident
investigators say the Metrolink engineer did
not heed a red light warning signal and that
just before impact he was sending and receiving
text messages on his cellphone. In the collision,
25 people were killed and 135 injured.
The panel will be headed by Peter Cannito, retired
president of Metro North Railroad in New York, and
Don Sepulveda of HNTB Corp., an international
architecture, transportation and engineering company
based in Kansas City, Mo.
The panel's facilitator will be Linda Bohlinger, vice
president and national director of management consulting for HNTB.
Metrolink has allocated $250,000 for the study.
jeff.gottlieb@latimes.com
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 Independent Panel to Study Metrolink Safety |
S.S. Sam Taylor | 10-10-2008 - 16:10 |
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