Tag: Long Island Rail Road

January 23, 2017 11:43 PM | NewYork.CBSLocal.com NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced plans Monday to spend millions of dollars to screen employees for a health condition that can have deadly consequences. The move comes three years after the deadly Spuyten Duyvil Metro-North crash — blamed in part on the engineer’s undiagnosed sleep apnea. Now, the MTA is going farther than any transit agency in the country, ordering sleep apnea screenings for every commuter train and subway operator as well as every bus driver. Sleep apnea is a medical disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts …