Comment from BMWED-IBT

Summary: The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division (BMWED) of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters opposes the continued implementation of the FRA Automated Track Inspection (ATI) waiver. They argue that the current framework relies on a narrow subset of geometry-based metrics that fail to reflect the actual condition of the track, citing significant disparities between ATI-identified defects and those found by human inspectors, as well as a recent track-caused derailment within the waiver territory.