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Train memorial on tap to get more funds
Monday, June 1, 2009
Simi Valley is getting an additional $195,500 in community development grants under the federal stimulus package, and city staff is recommending the majority — $100,000 — go toward the construction of the Metrolink Memorial. Full story »
Metrolink won't help pay for memorial
Friday, May 15, 2009
Metrolink’s CEO has written a letter to Simi Valley’s city manager, saying Metrolink will not help pay for the memorial commemorating the 25 people who died in the Sept. 12 crash. Full story »
Metrolink installing high-tech equipment
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Metrolink plans to have the most technologically advanced rail cars in the nation by end of this year, Metrolink’s chairman said Monday night. Full story »
Attorneys for Metrolink crash victims have first day in court
Friday, April 3, 2009
LOS ANGELES — Attorneys for more than 30 victims of the Sept. 12 Metrolink crash were in court together for the first time Friday as a judge began to lay down the rules for combining their cases into one multimillion-dollar case.
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12 file claims against Metrolink over crash
Friday, March 13, 2009
Twelve more people filed claims Wednesday against Metrolink over September’s train crash in Chatsworth, bringing the total number of claims to 126 before the filing deadline at the close of business Thursday, a Metrolink spokesman said. Full story »
Metrolink's two top managers are dismissed
Saturday, March 7, 2009
The top two managers of the Metrolink train system were dismissed Thursday within hours of Metrolink’s demand that they be fired by the private company that operates the system. Full story »
Workshop set on Metrolink memorial
Saturday, March 7, 2009
The city of Simi Valley will hold its third public workshop Tuesday to solicit ideas on designing a memorial in honor of the victims of the Sept. 12 Metrolink train collision. Full story »
Metrolink demands release of managers
Saturday, March 7, 2009
The top two managers of the Metrolink train system were dismissed Thursday within hours of Metrolink’s demand that they be fired by the private company that operates the system. Full story »
Metrolink orders operator to fire railroad managers
Friday, March 6, 2009
Tom McDonald and Gregg Konstanzer, the railroad managers who were grilled this week by federal transportation officials, must be fired from the company that operates Metrolink trains, Metrolink said Thursday.
In a letter to the executive offices of Connex Railroad — Metrolink’s operator, and a subsidiary of the French conglomerate Veolia — Metrolink’s chief executive told Connex to remove McDonald and Konstanzer, who are the system’s general manager and assistant general manager.
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Lawsuits ready to take center stage in Metrolink crash
Thursday, March 5, 2009
The NTSB hearings on the Metrolink crash are over, and the civil trials will begin soon. Attorneys for the passengers and their families say the information uncovered by the NTSB will be crucial in their multimillion-dollar lawsuits, which will likely target the private railroad operator as much as they target Metrolink. Full story »
NTSB considers video cameras on all trains
Thursday, March 5, 2009
WASHINGTON — Federal investigators raised the possibility Wednesday that video cameras could be required aboard passenger, freight and commuter trains to avoid another accident like the deadly Metrolink crash in Chatsworth last September. Full story »
NTSB worries about ignored safety guidelines
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
The numerous safety violations that contributed to a deadly train crash in California last year have some federal officials asking whether the crash was an isolated incident or part of a more widespread problem, particularly with cell phone use by crew members.
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
The NTSB holds a hearing in Washington, D.C. on the Metrolink crash in Sept. 2008 that killed 25 people. Full story »
Metrolink riders surprised but stoic over details from hearing
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Reaction from train riders. do they feel safer since the accident. reax to hearings.
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Hearing reopens wounds for families of crash victims
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Thousands of miles from hearings in Washington, D.C., local family members of those killed in the Sept. 12 Metrolink crash said the hearings have reopened painful wounds, but they were encouraged to see a public vetting and hopeful that some good could come from it. Full story »
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