Metrolink in $135K settlement with ex-spokeswoman
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
By The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Southern California regional rail authority that runs Metrolink commuter trains has agreed to pay $135,000 to a former spokeswoman who resigned after announcing the probable cause of a crash that killed 25 people.
The Los Angeles Times reports on its Web site that it obtained the settlement agreement Tuesday.
In the hours after a Metrolink train collided with a freight train in the San Fernando Valley last year, Denise Tyrrell told reporters the commuter train's engineer ran a red light. She resigned after being criticized by some on the railroad's board that her announcement was premature.
Federal investigators have since said the engineer ran the light and was text messaging 22 seconds before the crash.
Here's why Metrolink settled..... Per a story in the LA Times.....
The settlement was signed in March but released only today in response to a Times public-records request. It bars Tyrrell from disclosing confidential Metrolink information or making any statements disparaging or discrediting the agency, its employees or board members
So, for $135,000 Metrolink bought a valuable commodity---Silence!
That's right, the Metrolink board used your hard earned tax dollars and your fare money to save their hides.
If it were up to me, I would fire the board and bring back Denise. She told the truth!
I think that she settled too low. She deserved more $$$$.
Coments anyone?
