Posts tagged Maintenance
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Breakfast links: Lots of hot air
Operation Cool Breeze not so cool; You can photograph the Baltimore light rail; Can Stessel unsuck Metro communications?; When jurisdictions vie for federal agencies; Induce and reduce the same thing?; Chinatown bus crashes, killing 4; Longer commute, shorter life; Former officials do the darndest things; And…. Keep reading…
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Beware engineer-think on late night hours
Just as some traffic engineers can fall into traps like viewing roadways as moving cars rather than moving people, transit engineers can lapse into thinking about their system in terms of how it best serves the trains that roam the tracks than the people who ride those trains. When he became chair of the WMATA Board one year ago, Peter Benjamin said, “Metro’s job is… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Watchful schools
School bus cameras in MoCo; Dinner at school; Bill seeks oases in food deserts; PG Council considers $4.5M subsity for shopping center; SmarTrip misinformation abounds; Metro closures November 5-7; DDOT & MPD can do better; Plurality favor cuts to “transportation”. Keep reading…
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Ask Metro: Broken PIDs, bus fareboxes, and bikes
As Metro’s infrastructure continues to age, broken elements have become a fact of life for riders. We asked Metro about a few of the issues cropping up from maintenance headaches. Many riders have noticed that the PIDs (the signs showing train arrivals) are increasingly out of sync with trains, often showing “BRD” for a few minutes after a train leaves, or… Keep reading…
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The inglorious path back to Metro glory: Maintenance
For all the complaints about Metrorail, from outages to safety concerns, it’s easy to forget that Metrorail was until recently considered by many to be the best subway system in the country. For those of us who rode the subway in the 1990s, this is not a distant memory. So what happened? The Metrorail system got old. Much of Metrorail was built between 1970 and 1990. … Keep reading…