Buses Bail Out The Choo Choo Again
There's nothing like building a little choo choo/trolley at street level and not segregating it from regular traffic.
That way, you get a steady stream of traffic/train collisions.
Even better, regular vehicles sometimes take out miles of choo choo/trolley service:
METRORail came to a halt Friday morning after part of its electrical line was cut.Better keep the bus fleet well-maintained, eh?Investigators said the line was struck by a dump truck, causing it to snap around 9:40 a.m. About four feet of the line -- which carries 780 volts of direct current to the trains -- fell to the ground, causing METRO to shut down about 2 miles in the center of the 7-mile light-rail system.
The area shut down was between St. Joseph Parkway and Wheeler Avenue. METRO officials said the trains are operating again in that area, but repairs to the downed line may not be finished until Saturday.
METRO employed a combination of buses and trains to move commuters along the light-rail system during the shutdown.
"We are running the trains from the south end of the line to Rice Stadium. There we have a bus bridge, where the passengers are put on a bus, and bussed up to the downtown transit center at Main and St. Joseph. Trains are running again north of the downtown transit center," METRO spokesman Ken Cannaughton said.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 02/07/04 10:01 | Danger Train | Technorati
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I was wondering why the train sat at the Downtown Transit Center for so long this morning (while I was freezing just up the line at the Bell Street Station).
Thanks for the info!
Posted by Steve Casburn @ 17:31 on 02/07/04
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