12-24-2022, 02:36 PM
(12-20-2022, 10:51 AM)taylortbb Wrote: That said, GrandLinq pays a penalty whenever the region has to substitute with buses. GrandLinq also has a ridership incentive payment. So there's definitely some amount of pressure on GrandLinq here to try to solve this better.
Well, this is their fifth winter running at least some trams, and the fourth one (19-20, 20-21, 21-22, 22-23) running at service levels, so why haven't they figured this particular issue out yet? Keolis is tha GrandLinq partner doing the actual tram operations and they are an international company with lots of experience running trams, so why did they not draw on that to solve this problem after the first time it shut down service in the 2019/20 winter?
When I asked the Region why the ION LRT was shut down on that day, the response I got was
"We will immediately work with our operator to do a full root cause analysis of the disruption and the multiple factors that contributed to the breakdown of the LRT service, so we can adequately prepare for similar winter storm events in the future."
I'm still waiting for a response asking if root cause analyses were not done in the past and that's why it was allowed to happen for the fourth year in a row.