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Originally Posted by MIPS
Personally I'd let this failure slide. It wasn't like there was an advance warning or an existing quirk. Everything was fine one second and the next everything went to hell. It was a fault so obscure and so unexpected that it took hours to conclude it was the I/O card. Perhaps if it happens again in the next ten years or so it might be then a better time to look into newer or redundant systems but if this was a freak accident I doubt it will happen again any time soon unless TransLink for some reason has been scaling back system inspections or routine part replacements which might of prevented this.
Could of been worse. Remember the brake shoe incident?
All the whining is is to be completely expected when any transit system suffers a crippling failure. The SkyTrain is only singled out because it's automatic and for years the GVRD has been divided over using it or light rail so don't be surprised when blogs and newspapers flare up with rants and opinion pieces in the next month (I'm positive railforthevalley will be chiming on this one). They'll die down with time but unless TransLink handles the incident correctly it might come back to haunt them.
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No freaking way should anyone let this failure slide! All those newspaper flare ups and blogs, even Rail for Valley's, do highlight a legitimate concern with any automated system...they will eventually fail!
This has absolutely NOTHING to do with Skytrain vs LRT, and those blogs, flare ups and commentaries that you easily dismiss just because your a fan of Skytrain or the Mark Is only highlight the sheer bias to unconditionally cheer for a system you personally like. Its not a perfect system, and those concerns are valid, given the enormity of this incident, not one of them should be dismissed.
The Skytrain system is getting old, and with the upcoming Evergreen Line extension in 2016, the Broadway subway (if Gregor wins
), and more and more condos being built along the line, more and more people will be relying on it for their daily lives. It is imperative that system failures are to be avoided at all costs,
IT MUST NOT HAPPEN AGAIN!
The fact that Translink has
no backup system in place shows a huge ineptness on their part! No surprise since they would rather spend the money to make stations and older, un-airconditioned Mark Is look pretty than to ensure the entire system doesn't fail and disrupt the lives of thousands of commuters! This backup system should have been in place a long time ago!
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