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Re: The LIRR President Speaks

Posted by WillD on Sat Apr 22 23:28:25 2006, in response to Re: The LIRR President Speaks, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Apr 22 23:05:38 2006.

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It's no surprise the M1s are getting 27,000 miles between failures, the LIRR's maitenance forces have no doubt said "fuck it" when it comes to permanently fixing problems. You wouldn't happen to have a number for the M3s, since they're fairly similar to the M1s and actually likely to be maintained at this point might provide a better indication.

And I don't really care about the MDBF, that'd be low no matter how heavy the car was. The simple fact is that the MTA singularly failed to provide any oversight on the project or in the specifications and are now stuck with a massively overweight EMU which will provide little or no improvement on economy when compared to the M1s. A lighter EMU with the same power systems would have lowered the MTA's power bills and brought them closer to parity with their subsidy.

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