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Re: FRA = Friends of Railroad Administrators
Author: J
Date: 12-04-2009 - 07:38

I don't believe lobbying played a role in FRA's positon. On June 26, 2006 (more than a year after the Glendale accident) the agency released the following study: REPORT TO THE HOUSE AND SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEES: THE SAFETY OF PUSH-PULL AND MULTIPLE-UNIT LOCOMOTIVE PASSENGER RAIL OPERATIONS

To quote from the accompanying press release: "The new analysis of grade crossing accidents found that from 1996 to 2005, only three push trains derailed out of 218 collisions and two pull trains derailed out of 290 collisions. This difference in the rate of derailment between push and pull modes is a statistically insignificant 0.69 percentage points. Including the intentional derailment of the push train involved in last year’s Glendale, CA, Metrolink incident the difference is still only a very small 1.14 percentage points, Boardman noted."

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