I know, I know, sounds silly for a train that, at best, only gets to top speed on small sections of track in Rhode Island. But that's exactly the problem, Paul Levy recently reported the driver of the 4 p.m. Boston-bound train always seems to go too fast on that stretch:
... Last week, when I took it (Dec 1), you could actually smell the asbestos in the back car as he had to jam on the brakes before going over one of the bridges. ...
Levy isn't one of those bloggers who just sits at his keyboard and whines, so he actually fired off a complaint to Amtrak, which said it would get back to him in a month or so:
Four weeks = 28 trains. Thousands of passengers. A potential safety hazard.
Four weeks?
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