Exclusive: New Jersey railway put trains in Sandy flood zone despite warnings

Insurance coverage on neglected equiptment ? Home owners are required to do “something” to protect their assets pre floods . Some how everyone else in the effected area, grasped the magnitude of the coming storm, full moon and tidal surge . Not these rail officials however . NOAA predicted the outcome . Does this rail system now become part of ConRail, AmTrak, or some other manifestation paid by US tax payers ?

Time to clean house from the top down. Replace them first then listen to their excuses, “blame game on the NJ rails” has begun. Too bad a good railroad is run with such incompetent leaders. Governor Christie, I am sure you can tell them like it is better than I can.

if I were the insurer, like GSRyder states above, I wouldn’t pay that claim, because the loss was entirely avoidable. A single person was in charge of an, obviously flawed, decision making process. That person, and whoever else was directly involved in the decision, should loose their job and their pension. They should be held personally accountable, no matter who they are, or how sterling their performance may have been, in the past. There is no excuse for ignoring such obvious factors. Hopefully in the future, management in this sort of position will exercise better judgement!

@JamVee

If they put the cars in a flood zone, Insurance shouldn’t cover it. That is what people to do defraud insurance companies during natural disasters. They will park their cars in a flood zone hoping for the worst. Insurance companies will normally fight payment on these tyep of situations.

Somebody should be held criminally negligent. Amtrak, MTA, Metro North and LIRR all moved equipment to safer locations.

After Katrina ruined the New Orleans RTA equipment, moving such expensive, essential public transit equipment should have been a standard practice in any emergency preparedness manual.

Christie certainly shares part of the blame; he has been nothing short of an ideological hack when it comes to public transportation.

You guys thinking what I’m thinking? Saltwater is corrosive to steel. From now on, Jersey gets plastic trains only.