WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) released the following statement regarding preliminary reports from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concerning the rail collision near Bridgeport on May 17th: 

NTSB today revealed that the tracks at the site of the crash were compromised, and that MTA knew about it. Given this new information, it is absolutely imperative that NTSB quickly follow today's report with recommendations to make the line safer. I spoke with the Chairman of NTSB this afternoon, and told her that riders along the line deserve to see NTSB's final report as quickly as possible, so that they can have confidence that their commute is as safe as it has historically been along one of the nation's most traveled lines. Chairman Hersman assured me that NTSB would update the delegation as soon as they had additional information or preliminary recommendations.  Riders deserve to know why reports of the compromised track were not immediately remedied, and only NTSB has the stature and authority to provide us with these answers.  They should do so, and quickly.