FCC Bureau Proposes Positive Train Control Change for New Jersey
The FCC Wireless Bureau proposed to modify the license of a 218-219 MHz station in New Jersey to facilitate positive train control (PTC) deployment for New Jersey Transit, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) and certain freight railroads. That “will…
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serve the public interest in rail safety first by providing NJ Transit access to suitable spectrum in an area where it has encountered challenges in obtaining spectrum to deploy PTC,” the Monday order said. “It will enable SEPTA to transition its PTC operations to the 218-219 MHz band, providing needed spectral separation from potentially interfering freight railroad PTC operations in the 220-222 MHz band.” PTC-220, which is helping railroads deploy PTC, has 30 days to protest the decision, the bureau said. Officials said lack of PTC was partly to blame for a September train crash involving an NJ Transit train (see 1609290067). U.S. railroads were supposed to have had PTC in place by Dec. 31, 2015, but got a three-year extension last year after telling Congress they couldn't launch everywhere along their systems by then (see 1510290069).