By Jeff Davis, Opinion Contributor, The Hill; January 4, 2018
The fatal Amtrak Cascades derailment in Washington State between Tacoma and Olympia on Dec, 18 killed three people and injured scores of others. It has brought the issue of positive train control (PTC), a technology that automatically activates the brakes of trains to meet speed limits or red lights, to the forefront of national debate once again.
The whole point of the new “Point Defiance Bypass” on which the accident occurred was to provide a much straighter route than the old, coast-hugging, windy route that was shared with a lot of BNSF freight trains.
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