Menendez: Report showed New Jersey far behind on train safety

A New Jersey senator said Thursday that his state must address its failure to make progress on technology to stop out-of-control trains in their tracks in the wake of a deadly train crash in Hoboken.

Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., said in a Thursday CNN interview he is a “huge advocate” of positive train control technology, which automatically slows trains down, but said a 2016 report given to the Federal Railroad Administration shows that New Jersey Transit has failed to implement the system.