Conductor From "The Polar Express" Wrote:
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> Re OldPoleBurner's comments:
>
> That sounds like something a politician or public
> relations spokesperson would say. All that aside,
> would you at least agree with me on the following
> that I wrote?
>
> In the case of taxpayer funded-commuter
> operations, we have a bunch of clueless
> politicians micro-managing and trying to "play
> with trains." A conductor without a name tag is
> apparently a really big deal, so much so that data
> must be collected and tabulated on such an event.
>
> As someone else said, "Ridiculous." I concur.

What's ridiculous is that the ntsb has to perform an investigation because someone is texting instead of watching signals. If metrolink employees could follow rules, then there would be a lot less taxpayer money spent on investigations.

(Yes, I know these are two different incidents.)