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(03-19-2023, 06:51 PM)Bytor Wrote: (03-18-2023, 03:45 PM)Bob_McBob Wrote: This article seems to imply Keolis didn't even order catenary ice scrapers for ION until the end of 2020, and that it's just pure luck we didn't have any major ice issues until this year, given none were delivered until last November.
https://www.therecord.com/local-waterloo...rains.html
Whose resposnibility would it have been to order them, though? Is it something that should have come with the vehicles, like (all-weather) tires on a brand new car? Or are the scrapers an "aftermarket" thing like getting winter tires?
I mean, one would have to read the contract specifically.
But given that Keolis is ordering them now, and that they are only attached to the train during bad weather, I'd be pretty surprised if they weren't Keolis's responsibility.
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That dusting of snow we just had apparently took out most of the system for an hour, and there's still no service between Mill and Fairway.
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(03-29-2023, 04:18 PM)Bob_McBob Wrote: That dusting of snow we just had apparently took out most of the system for an hour, and there's still no service between Mill and Fairway.
There did seem to be a bit of ice accumulation on my bicycle...
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We're going to need a LRT system failure counter website to count the number of times this POS falls apart the same way we have one to count the times it gets into accidents. I'm surprised a light breeze doesn't somehow break it.
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I saw 2 LRVs stopped in the park: one still next to the platform at Seagram (albeit further down the track than where it normally stops, and another near the bridge. Both were positioned such that crossings stayed activated. Does it never occur to them to put the LRV in “parked” mode and release the crossings? What is wrong with these people?
Then I got down to Erb and Caroline. Behind me the crossing activated but I got all the way down to William St. without seeing the LRV behind me. How long did it stay activated? No idea!
And anyway, since when does a risible amount of ice like we had today have any impact on an LRT system?
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The Cameron Heights student who was hit by the LRT seems to be recovering well. WRPS has no update on the investigation.
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/fairly-emot...-1.6334763
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So it is not just Waterloo Region drivers who crash into LRT vehicles.
Edmonton: https://globalnews.ca/news/9633976/edmon...l-18-2023/
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(04-19-2023, 02:14 PM)ac3r Wrote: Only 7 crashes? Pfft.
They haven't gone into service yet. This is still the testing phase.
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We just don't hear about all the other LRT crashes on lines in Calgary, Toronto, and Edmonton that have been around for decades and so are no longer newsworthy unless huge and bloody.
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(04-22-2023, 02:29 PM)Bytor Wrote: We just don't hear about all the other LRT crashes on lines in Calgary, Toronto, and Edmonton that have been around for decades and so are no longer newsworthy unless huge and bloody.
Indeed...ION LRT crashes aren't even reported all that reliably anymore. The fact is at any given moment a half dozen drivers are in the process of crashing into something...99.9999% of that doesn't get reported at all.
Probably we should care more...but not because it's the LRT specifically...but because our general road safety record is abysmal.
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So it looks like Montreal's REM is supposed to open "before summer".
Quote:The trains were not being tested during the recent ice storm, but Andlauer said that episode did not cause any issues on the REM’s infrastructure. The network has a system that removes ice from overhead wires, he added.
“We are very comfortable after two winters of testing these trains,” Andlauer said.
From a Montreal Gazette story about it. https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...-train-faq
We'll see next winter I guess!
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Wait, you can pre-order systems to de-ice wires? You don't need to wait for the first ice storm before you do something?
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05-03-2023, 04:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-03-2023, 04:38 PM by ac3r.)
The trains are sooooo packed.
I see some picket lines at Fairway Station.
I don't think transit workers should get to do this. I'm all for unions and such but to shut down an entire transit system... It should be thought of as an essential service the way hospitals are. Hospitals can strike but they are still obligated to keep the hospitals running. Transit is just as important because how are highly essential workers supposed to deal to deal with this?
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When Japanese bus drivers strike, they continue operating the system but they don't collect fares. I'd love to see that become the standard over here.
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