PSR
NS to STB: “Service levels do not meet our customers’ or our expectations”
(Source: Railway Age, December 13, 2021) NEW YORK — In a Nov. 23 letter submitted to NS Chairman and CEO James A. Squires (who has since transferred his President role to Shaw), STB Chairman Oberman wrote that NS’s recent key operating metrics “are hovering far below 2019 comparables.” For the second reporting week of November…
Read MorePSR: Can We Please Be Honest Here?
Written by Matt Parker (Source: Railway Age July 26, 2021) Editor’s Note: This opinion piece is in response to my invitation for “reasonable, fact-based, non-political opinions on Precision Scheduled Railroading by experienced railroaders from both the agreement and non-agreement sectors, to encourage discussion,” in response to “PSR Point/Counterpoint: Fortune,” published July 22 – William C. Vantuono An Oct. 3,…
Read MoreDeFazio, Payne ask GAO to examine PSR’s impacts
(Source: Progressive Railroading 05/18/2021) U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) and Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Chairman Donald Payne Jr. (D-N.J.) are seeking a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study of the impacts that precision scheduled railroading (PSR) is having on workers, safety, freight shippers, passenger railroads and the long-term…
Read MorePresident Pierce urges aid for Amtrak/commuters, condemns PSR at Senate hearing
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, October 21 — BLET National President Dennis R. Pierce testified today before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation at a hearing titled, “Passenger and Freight Rail: The Current Status of the Rail Network and the Track Ahead.” The hearing examined the current state of America’s passenger and freight rail network,…
Read MoreCargill urging regulators to keep track of Precision Scheduled Railroading performance
(Source: Freight Waves, October 8, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Responding to pressure to be more transparent about their service performance following the major railroad mergers of the 1990s, the freight railroads began providing shippers and regulators weekly data on metrics such as rail car velocity and terminal dwell times. Full story: Freight Waves Monday, October 12,…
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