Of course, the maintenance on the train system has been, uh, underfunded for years now. I read they were begging for the money. I heard one report that the brakes failed:
New York train crash kills four, injures dozens (via AFP)
A train hurtled off the tracks in a New York suburb, killing at least four people, injuring dozens and coming perilously close to plunging into a freezing river. It was still unclear why the train veered off the rails in the Bronx at around 7:20 am (…
