Better Keep The Bus Fleet In Good Shape
I hope Metro's not hoping to cut down on its bus maintenance budget any time soon:
For about an hour and half Saturday, a portion of the METRO rail line was shut down after a small fire at a power station.ABC-13 really needs someone to edit this copy. Ugh.The effected area was on Main Street from Franklin to Bell. Trains were only running from the Reliant Park area to the downtown transit center. Just a few passengers were affected.
Within 15 minutes, METRO put some extra busses in service to take those stranded riders back to the downtown transit center.
"Certainly when something like this happens, you learn how good your response is and you try to improve it the next time," said Ken Connaughton with METRO. "Certainly, we will learn from what happened today and hope to be able to react more quickly in the future."
METRO is trying to figure out what caused the fire. Nobody was hurt.
Nice that "just a few passengers were affected," eh? That's the positive spin, I suppose -- when the thing breaks down, hardly anybody is riding it anyway and so it's easy to put them on buses. The negative side, of course, is the exorbitant cost of the boondoggle, and the fact that mobility for downtown motorists is reduced by it.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/18/04 11:59 | Danger Train | Technorati
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*shrug* The spelling used to be worse when Kris was writing stories freehand or just copy-pasting them from the F7-bait producer copy in the NewStar system.
Posted by Laurence Simon @ 12:09 on 01/18/04
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