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#11 KevinKorell

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Posted 26 August 2017 - 08:10 PM

Sonoma County Gazette, 8/25/17:

 


 

SMART Train Off to a Running Start

 

Hundreds of spectators, dignitaries, and SMART Train employee family members crowded a bunting bedecked Railroad Square Depot on Friday, Aug. 25 to celebrate the kickoff of the first passenger rail service in Sonoma County in six decades.

 

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Posted 26 August 2017 - 08:14 PM

Petaluma, CA Argus-Courier, 8/25/17:

 


 

SMART train begins service in North Bay with a ceremony and speeches

 

Thundreds of people celebrated the official opening of the first passenger rail service in the North Bay since 1958 with a pomp-filled event at Santa Rosa’s downtown rail station full of congratulatory speeches by local politicians, live music, and free rides for the public.

 

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Posted 29 August 2017 - 06:37 AM

Marin Independent-Journal, San Rafael, CA, 8/28/17:
 

 

Sonoma-Marin rail reports full trains as commuter service opens


 
 
Commuter rail service began in earnest Monday, with agency officials and passengers reporting a relatively smooth start and full trains during peak periods.
 
“It has gone extremely well,” said SMART spokeswoman Jeanne Belding, who was on the second train of the day heading south. “I jumped on in Petaluma to go to the Marin Civic Center and it was pretty full.”

 

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Posted 31 August 2017 - 06:59 PM

SmartRail World,8/30/17:

PTC equipped San Francisco commuter train departs for first time.

 

 

San Francisco commuters received the good news they had been waiting for last week, when the much-delayed Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) departed from Sonoma County Airport, to the north of the city. Though SMART’s first journey, a design flaw with the train’s crankshaft and the impact felt by 2008’s economic crisis were among the main reasons for the maiden voyage being pushed back by around nine months.

 

Further slowing the network’s progress was the decision taken by SMART to install Positive Train Control (PTC) safety system across the entire network. The presence of the safety system on every train in the US, which automatically stops trains before a collision can occur, will be enshrined in US law in 2018 after an extension was passed by Congress in 2016. The law change came to being because of a number of fatal rail crashes between 2002 and 2008, including a crash in Chatsworth, California in 2008 that claimed 25 lives. Despite having a two-year buffer in which to install the system, the decision was taken by SMART management that it would be fully operational from day one.

 

“Positive Train Control will prevent all speed-related and speed-related human error accidents, which are a common cause of train accidents,” said SMART General Manager, Farhad Mansourian, adding that he believed PTC would save a lot of lives.

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Posted 04 September 2017 - 09:46 PM

KRON-TV San Francisco, CA via YouTube

 

Published on Sep 1, 2017
Now that SMART is operating in Marin and Sonoma County Stanley Roberts wanted to check on how people are behaving around the tracks.

 






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