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Think the FRA is doing it's job??
Because of the extent of railroad self-regulation -- coupled with ineffective FRA enforcement -- Citizen Action found that
[t]he FRA's failure to institute effective standards on operating rules, track tolerances and track maintenance...........
...the FRA has shown a consistent inability to effectively implement those safety policies it has developed. Over the last fifteen years the FRA has been the subject of six highly critical GAO reports, repeated complaints from the National Transportation Safety Board ......
The FRA generally does not meet statutory deadlines for implementation of safety programs.
The FRA is packed with former railroad employees. Dozens of FRA inspectors have ties to the railroad industry....
The FRA have imposed minor fines even in the case of fatalities.......
The FRA employs an insufficient number of safety inspectors to provide adequate oversight of the nation's railroads....
The FRA has been slow to develop effective and uniform methods of targeting inspections.......
read more in the railroad safety report at RailWatch which is now ?gone? There is a railwatch.com but they don't seem to have the same safety agenda.
