Metro-North Is Ordered to Modify Its Signal System

Five days after a fatal Metro-North Railroad derailment in the Bronx, the Federal Railroad Administration issued an emergency order on Friday requiring the agency to have two  people in place to operate trains where major speed limits exist.

The order, directed to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, wixh operates Metro-North, said the extra personnel would be required until the agency updates its signal system to better enforce speed limits.

The order calls on Metro-North to prtovide the railroad administration with the railroad administration with a list of main track locations with a maximum speed reduction of more than 20miles per hour. The railroad is to identify "aappropriate modifications to its existing automatic train control system or other signal systems to enable adequate advance warning of and adherence to such speed restrictions," the administration said.