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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 11 February 2018 - 10:31 AM

The Boston Globe,​ 2/10/18:

A look at the arrest record of a former commuter rail engineer

 

 

 

He was so drunk that August night in 2012 that his girlfriend begged him to let her out of the car. Instead, Roberto Ronquillo III drove on until his gray BMW veered up onto the sidewalk of Commonwealth Avenue and smashed into a parked car, a witness told police. Then, he drove off, but police found him a few blocks away, passed out in the driver’s seat with the engine still running.

 

Within days, Ronquillo went back to work — learning to drive trains for the MBTA commuter rail. The next month, he was certified as a professional train engineer.

 

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Posted 15 April 2018 - 06:25 AM

The Boston Globe, 4/14/18:
 

A rail safety system gone badly off track

 

 

Dean Walker’s license has been suspended 39 times for everything from driving to endanger to refusing a breathalyzer test. He’s been caught speeding 16 times and convicted of drunken driving twice.

 

To fellow motorists, he’s a hazard.

 

To the Registry of Motor Vehicles, he’s a chronic offender.

 

But to Keolis, the MBTA’s commuter rail operator, Walker is something else entirely — an engineer.

 

Despite his appalling driving history, Walker is entrusted with operating six-car trains, at speeds averaging 60 miles per hour, carrying hundreds of commuters to and from the city.

 

And he has plenty of company among his peers. About 110 commuter rail engineers, more than half of them, have driving records that experts described as poor considering the sensitive line of work they’re in — at least three infractions such as speeding, causing accidents, and failing to stop.

 

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