Massachusetts transit investigators looking into a runaway train are recommending that the operator be fired even as a lawyer for the driver said he denies tying a rope or cord around the train’s throttle to force it open, as authorities …
Metro-North Railroad, the nation’s second-largest commuter rail system, on Wednesday released a final report on what it has done to improve safety following a series of accidents last year and said it has completed most of its priorities. In a …
The New York City subway rail that snapped and caused a train to derail, injuring 19 passengers and stranding hundreds underground, was installed just weeks before the accident, the Metropolitan Transit Authority said Saturday. The rail that broke underneath a …
Metro-North, the nation’s second-largest commuter railroad, has been fined $552,000 over the past decade for safety violations and defects, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Friday. The Connecticut Democrat announced the fines for 139 violations since 2004 in his latest bid …
Attorneys have filed a negligence lawsuit against the Chicago Transit Authority on behalf of a woman injured in Monday’s Blue Line train derailment at O’Hare International Airport. The law firm of Corboy and Demetrio filed the lawsuit Tuesday afternoon in …
The Metro-North commuter railroad has a loose approach to safety that is evident from inadequate track inspection to poor training to employees’ inappropriate use of cellphones, a federal agency said Friday. The Federal Railroad Administration said Metro-North, which connects New …
Regulators investigating a fatal New York commuter train derailment recommended Tuesday that the railroad install recorders on its vehicles and new speed limit signs along its tracks. In a letter to the railroad’s new president, Joseph Giulietti, the National Transportation …
The revelation that a New York City commuter train derailed while barreling into a sharp curve at nearly three times the speed limit is fueling questions about whether automated crash-avoidance technology could have prevented the carnage. Safety officials for decades …
Several Connecticut officials are calling on the federal government to spend more on rail safety and reliability following a commuter train derailment near Bridgeport. U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, U.S. Rep. Jim Himes and Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch …