Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On November 20th 2017, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer stood at the Brewster Metro-North train station in Putnam County to call on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), including Metro-North to move heaven and earth to get Positive Train Control (PTC) installed by the federally-mandated deadline of 2018. Schumer said the clock is ticking and PTC is a piece of life-saving railroad technology that can prevent deadly train crashes and derailments.