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Re: WMATA Trains to Operate Slow Due to Slippery Track Conditions During Friday's AM Rush |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Sat Dec 1 20:30:23 2007, in response to Re: WMATA Trains to Operate Slow Due to Slippery Track Conditions During Friday's AM Rush, posted by Forest Glen on Sat Dec 1 20:20:29 2007. "The WMATA has a stellar track record."Only to some foamers who are too busy counting subway car serial numbers to notice anything else. The ridership in Washington, the elected officials in DC, the political cartoonist at the Washington Post, all think maintenance stinks. And they are right. The system is far too new to be suffering the kind of horrendous breakdowns New York and Chicago saw on 75 year old elevated lines and tunnels. But if WMATA keeps doing what it's doing now, it will start to happen. I met with members of WMATA's maintenance management a few years ago as part of a consulting project I was involved in. They expressed the need, among other things for better information and communication systems to keep maintenance work and its documentation (eg trouble tickets) better organized, so the crews could get more work done within their shifts. NYCTA had a huge problem with that in the 1970s and installed new IT software to handle it. WMATA has been good about keeping vandalism to a minimum. The Metro Transit Police have generally done a good job suppressing crime (although Metrorail is not 100% crime-free; no place in the world is). |
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