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NJ Transit's Corbett Testifies on PTC
Kevin Corbett, executive director of New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit), testified on his agency’s experience in implementing PTC at an Oct. 3 hearing before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, chaired by Sen. John Thune (R-SD).
Corbett called implementation of PTC “the single, most critical mission we have … to meet our federal requirements by Dec. 31.” He listed the challenges NJ Transit faced, including “contractor capacity and availability of materials and supplies, challenges that we have heard also affect many other railroads across the country,” and a simultaneous shortage of locomotive engineers.
“The confluence of these challenges has resulted in a large number of train cancellations in recent months, and I know these have had a significant impact on our customers. But I believe that times of great challenge are also times of great opportunity,” he said.
Corbett noted that, as of Sept. 30, 160 of the system’s locomotives and cab cars are PTC-equipped; NJ Transit has 82 percent of all required wayside antennas, radios and other equipment installed on the railroad rights-of-way; and the agency has trained 99 percent of all the engineers, signal technicians and others who need to be PTC-trained.
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| From left: FRA Administrator Ronald Batory; Susan Fleming, director of physical infrastructure issues, Government Accountability Office; Kevin Corbett; and Scot Naparstek, executive vice president and chief operating officer, Amtrak. |
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