Senator Wicker concerned about railroad safety

Republican Senator Roger Wicker expressed concern over railroad safety today during a hearing in the nation’s capital.
The hearing comes in the wake of recent high profile rail incidents in three different states that the National Transportation Safety Board has indicated could have been prevented had ‘positive train control’ been installed on those tracks.
Senator Wicker indicated that patience with passenger rail safety implementation is ‘running out.’ “We need to get the attention of those responsible and get a timetable that will work and avoid, if I might say, a train wreck.”
Senator Wicker also asked the president and CEO of Amtrak about the feasibility of implanting PTC along the Gulf Coast routes needed to restart passenger rail service that was discontinued after major damage from Hurricane Katrina.