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Re: LIRR M-9 PTC Equipment |
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Posted by Jace on Wed Jul 8 15:53:44 2015, in response to Re: LIRR M-9 PTC Equipment, posted by Dutchrailnut on Wed Jul 8 15:15:39 2015. I don't know the details, and chances are you don't either, but since part of the PTC equipment is supplied by the railroad and the remainder by Kawasaki, it could have been a misunderstanding of scope. There's lots of room to speculate, I prefer to give the engineers the benefit of the doubt. But this misses the point which is that these sorts of issues come up all the time during car design. You deal with them through waivers or change orders - standard practice. What makes this a little different is that the railroad presented the issue to the board (probably because it'll add some cost (which will use contingency money already in place)) and then Newsday decided to tar them due to implied incompetence. As I said, if they overestimated the space needed, they'd get the same treatment so long as Newsday maintains their agenda. |
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