WES loses lots of tax payers money

But everyone involved keeping that boondoggle going is making tons of cash. (And that is what the Portland transit system is really about, making people rich)

The safety systems currently in place on WES, an automatic train control system and a centralized traffic control system, already meet many requirements of the new regulations. TriMet and Portland & Western Railroad, which owns the tracks and operates the WES trains, have worked with the FRA to define the needed upgrades to the existing train control system.
MRS, the firm that designed and installed the existing train control system in 2008 under its previous name Rail Systems Solutions, Inc., has been contracted at a cost of $253,435 to perform the pre-implementation services including design and project management work required to prepare for the installation of the PTC system. Following that work, TriMet will negotiate an implementation services contract modification, which is expected to be approximately $5 million. The PTC project is budgeted within TriMet's fiscal year 2013-16 budgets.

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