Talk:Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008

FRA August 2012 Report To Congress
In August 2012 the FRA -- Federal Railroad Administration -- submitted their report on Positive Train Control roll-out to Congress, noting that our nation's railroads would not meet the December 2015 deadline to implement PTC but that some lines had met their goals. The FRA stated:

"In the United States, the most successful and widely deployed of the PTC systems in existence is the Amtrak Advanced Civil Speed Enforcement System (ACSES.) After starting in 1993, Amtrak has been able to deploy ACSES on their entire Northeast Corridor property in revenue service."

The FRA report continues to explain that ACSES lets them successfully roll at speeds up to 150 MPH but that ACSES remains expensive due to its inability to inter-operate with other PTC technologies -- which is entirely true, ACSES was rolled-out before the effort to create a wider standard.

Question: Should a link to the FRA's August 2012 Report To Congress (PDF format) be added to the external links? Thanks! Damotclese (talk) 22:19, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008
Division B of this law is titled the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act. The article only covers division A. Was originally its own bill, but got folded into this one. Not sure how we typically treat a law with separate sections. Would PRIIA be listed under its own article or folded into this one? Happy to do some of the work on adding the content but don;t want to set up a separate article under the same Public Law number if that isn't current practice.  TastyPoutine  talk (if you dare) 21:40, 5 June 2020 (UTC)