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Metro-North Crash Intensifies Calls for Improved Safety, Funding

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What they do know is that the train was traveling at a high rate of speed—nearly 82 miles per hour, or some 50 miles per hour more than the maximum allowable for that stretch of track—and that the train was not equipped with a special computer and satellite-aided control system meant to reduce instances of operator error. Making the Case.

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