Problems persist with installation of crash prevention technology on LIRR trains
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Newsday
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An MTA contractor, while working to fix an error in how it was installing positive train control technology on Long Island Rail Road trains, has discovered it made another mistake — further setting back completion of the federally required, $1 billion crash-prevention project, officials said Monday.
The news came at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board’s railroad committee meeting in Manhattan, where board members received an update on the project. Deborah Chin, the MTA’s director of positive train control, or PTC, said that during re-installation of one of hundreds of “undercar scanner antennas” recently recalled because of calibration errors, workers discovered another mistake in how a related component was being installed.
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