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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Tue Jan 15 00:22:36 2019, in response to Re: The Return Of ''Rapid'' Transit ?, posted by randyo on Tue Jan 15 00:07:49 2019. Michael might be right. I, who clearly enjoy this digital machine which lets us converse, am unconvinced about CBTC, ATC, ATO, because I live in BART and Muni country. BART's ATO computers were so flaky that the Cal PUC forced to install staffed "towers" on each platform who communicated via telephone to create manual block operation. After a while an outside consultant notioced that the "next train arrival system" actually did work and the systems were interconnected. After a couple newer generations of hardware, the system mostly works. Of course on extra warm days some of the wayside equipment overheats and we get "switching" roblems at Daly City which is both a through and terminal station.The former BART flack, Mike Healy described how early on they would deploy sacks of ice cubes... I am sure better hardware exists and is even marketed to transit agencies in the US, but the stuff used by my local agencies is not a shining example. |
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