By Jonathan D. Salant, NJ.com; February 15, 2018
WASHINGTON — NJ Transit trains could be kept out of the Hudson River tunnels to New York City if the commuter railroad fails to meet a year-end deadline for installing an automatic speed control system on its tracks and in its locomotives.
Amtrak President Richard Anderson told the House railroads subcommittee Thursday that commuter lines without positive train control, or PTC, could not use its tracks after the deadline, and Rep. Albio Sires, a member of the panel, said he was “very concerned” that NJ Transit would not be ready in time.
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