09-20-2021, 01:34 AM
(09-20-2021, 12:39 AM)taylortbb Wrote: https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/mobile/lrt-tra...-1.5591616
The disaster of the Ottawa LRT keeps going, with an in-service derailment; the second in as many months. Previous one resulted in a 5 day system shutdown, and this one likely will too. I don't know whether to blame Alstom or RTG more, but one of them isn't doing their job. Damage doesn't look structural, but definitely beyond a minor event.
We're very lucky our LRT has gone better. I think there was a lot more skepticism here than in Ottawa about whether rail transit was really necessary. If ION had gone anything like this, the calls to rip it all up would be widespread.
What do we know about track geometry and speeds where the derailments happened? Or the wheel shape conical section specs?