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Originally Posted by OCCheetos
Word on the street is that Alstom cleared the trains to run at full speed again months ago. The city is holding out, for whatever reason. Perhaps because it would become an overblown public issue of the city restoring full speeds without a "permanent fix", despite the interim mitigations proving to be sufficient.
Reason #12455 the public should should remain somewhat detached to transit operations.
Certainly you yourself are treating the additional 5 minutes of end-to-end runtime like the entire thing is an unfixable failure. Truly a frustratingly shallow take once you add in the detail that the trains can technically run full speed again already.
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What can I say. I can't be criticized for information not available to the public. When measuring transit times, even 5 minute savings are significant. That also applies to driving times within the city. When I hear of just waiting for a bus a few more minutes, I am ready to bang my head against the wall. This accumulates over time as other changes have the same impact, and over and over again. This is how transit becomes totally uncompetitive over time. Add a few minutes over and over again.
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