If you can get behind the paywall a nice article from the Seattle Times on it yesterday.
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“The term ‘accident’ is inappropriate because that implies that this was an unforeseen and unpredictable event. It was anything but unforeseeable.”
"In the final report, the NTSB faulted regional transit agency Sound Transit for not sufficiently mitigating the danger of the sharp bend; Amtrak for not better training the engineer; the state Department of Transportation for not ensuring the route was safe before green-lighting passenger train service; and the railroad administration for allowing the use of European-style rail cars that didn’t meet updated safety standards."
Where WSDOT is going to get 100+ million for new trains is beyond me.
OPRRMS Wrote:
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> 0190624.aspx
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> At the bottom of the page is a link to the full
> report in the .pdf format.