NY: Schumer: Trump Admin. Should Reinstate Sleep Apnea Testing Requirement For Train Engineers

With sleep apnea now blamed for two major commuter train accidents in the Tri-State Area in the last year and a half, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-New York) believes the Trump administration could be raising the risk of another disaster.

Standing in the middle of Grand Central Terminal, Schumer condemned the U.S. Department of Transportation for reversing course this summer on a rule that required sleep apnea screening for engineers nationwide.

Schumer’s worry grew after last week’s National Transportation Safety Board report, which indicated that the crashes involving an NJ TRANSIT train at the Hoboken Terminal in September 2016, and a LIRR train at Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn in January 2017, both involved engineers with sleep apnea.

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