01-20-2018, 09:03 PM
(01-20-2018, 09:00 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(01-20-2018, 06:23 PM)trainspotter139 Wrote: That would explain the gauge checking on the other curves.
It is a good thing that they found this no matter when it was found. a curve that is out by a few millimetres would cause too much wear on the bogies, make a lot of squealing noise or cause a train to derail.
My question would be why is this finally getting detected and fixed now. Given that service was supposed to start last year, shouldn’t the tracks and other system components have been ready for LRVs in advance of the originally-planned opening day? Gauge checking should have been done at most weeks after the initial track installation and the corrections could have been made a year ago. Why the lack of urgency throughout this entire project? This part isn’t Bombardier’s fault.
This is my thoughts, this substantially weakens the claim that if we only had trains, we'd have been running them. There seems to be a lack of hurrying to get this train on the tracks as it were.