Capital Metro’s beleaguered commuter rail project will face further delays after federal regulators turned up a defect in the “vital logic” of the signals used to tell trains to slow down and stop when there is trouble ahead, the Austin American-Statesman reports.

In addition, the Federal Railroad Administration officials, during a visit to Austin last week, “strongly urged” Capital Metro to compile a “systems integration” document on running both freight and passenger trains along the same 32-mile track from Leander to downtown Austin. Capital Metro, because it plans to operate the freight trains at night and the passenger trains during the day, had not previously put together the report, board member Mike Martinez said.

And agency officials on Monday revealed changes in the planned schedule for commuter rail when it opens, with six inbound departures from Leander in the morning and six outbound in the afternoon.

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