May 22, 2015

So PA Sen. Pat Toomey Was Trying To Delay The Amtrak Safety System

So PA Sen. Pat Toomey Was Trying To Delay The Amtrak Safety System

"For years, Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey has campaigned to delay a multibillion-dollar railroad safety technology, calling it an “exorbitantly expensive unfunded mandate.”

But safety officials say the technology would have prevented last week’s deadly train crash in Philadelphia. And Democrats argue that the railroads were starved of the money necessary to finish it."