INVESTIGATION: After decades of delay, life-saving rail technology deadline nears: Safety advocates warn dangers, loopholes to remain even after New Year’s Eve milestone for positive train control implementation, @Hearst TV National Investigative Unit rpts: https://bit.ly/2WmvS5x 

MORE: @NTSB says 305 deaths, 6,800 injuries since 1969 could have been prevented if system installed sooner; Board Member @JenniferHomendy, who helped write law: “They've lost loved ones and PTC would have prevented their deaths had it been implemented”: https://bit.ly/2WmvS5x 

MORE: @NancyPutCoLeg’s husband, Jim Lovell, died in 2013: “We need to make sure... oversight and the management of these companies... will continue to keep the little guy in mind so that Jim Lovells can get on the train and go to work and make it home”: https://bit.ly/2WmvS5x 

MORE: Claudia Souser’s husband, Doyle, died in 2008 crash in #CA on tracks without the technology: "It never, ever brings the person back. But there's a chance that someone else won't have to live without their husband, father for the rest of their days.": https://bit.ly/2WmvS5x 

MORE: Even with PTC deadline, US rail lines not as safe as they could be:
•19% lacked PTC interoperability as of 12/3;
• @AmtrakOIG: @Amtrak can’t easily measure reliability problems, workaround “error prone”;
•PTC only required on 41% of US rail miles: https://bit.ly/2WmvS5x 

MORE: @Hearst TV National Investigative Unit rail safety series stretches 2 years:
•2018: https://bit.ly/3ajaAOr 
•2019: https://bit.ly/3nsQogT 
•2020: https://bit.ly/2WmvS5x 
—>Interactive map of PTC-preventable crashes: https://bit.ly/3qYtC2B 
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