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Posted by Fine, Howard, and Fine on Sat Jul 14 18:02:00 2012, in response to Re: WMATA- FAIL?, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Sat Jul 14 15:59:46 2012. According to the AP, the 3-year old $20M central computer system thatmonitors the position of every train in the Washington, D.C., Metrorail system failed on the morning of 24 Sep 1999. The backup involved personnel with walkie-talkies along 96 miles of track monitoring trains. As a result, the morning startup was delayed by half an hour. [The cause was not identified. But this was reportedly the first time in 23 years that the start of daily service was delayed! "A graphics generating device for Metro's finicky central computer system froze about 3:20 a.m., sending Metro managers racing to fix it before the scheduled start of daily service at 5:30 a.m. But they couldn't restore it until 5:46 a.m., which meant normal passenger service didn't begin rolling until about 6:15 a.m." -- resulting in 45-minute delays to start the day. "Last fall, the system crashed several times during rush hour, including one episode similar to yesterday's when computer-generated views of sections of the system were blacked out for nearly two hours. In the 15 months after the system was installed by McLean-based BDM International, it crashed 50 times." Source: Computer Failure Puzzles Metro Opening Delayed, Rush Hour Slowed, by Lyndsey Layton, *The Washington Post*, Saturday, September 25, 1999, Page B01, courtesy of Keith Rhodes; PGN-ed http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-09/25/074l-092599-idx.html] |
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