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Article: T to test Red, Orange lines' crash prevention system ; Actions are taken at urging of NTSB
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 24, 2009
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The MBTA, responding to an urgent federal safety recommendation,
said yesterday that it would begin testing its crash prevention
system on the Red and Orange lines.
The T is one of a handful of transit agencies in the United
States that uses an automated system similar to the one that failed
in Washington, D.C., possibly causing a fatal collision there in
June.
"After only 3 months, this complex investigation is far from
complete, so we are not ready to determine the probable cause of the
accident," Deborah A.P. Hersman, chairwoman of the National
Transportation Safety Board, said in a statement. "However, our
findings so far indicate a pressing need to issue these
recommendations to ...