12-15-2022, 12:32 PM
(12-15-2022, 10:19 AM)ac3r Wrote: If you use the LRT over the next 24-48 hours, factor in extra time. My train had some trouble at around 6:30 this morning and the freezing rain is even worse now, so I suspect it'll be having some struggles.
Why they are even having problems is beyond me.
Elsewhere on the planet where trams operate in winter weather the pantograph shoes just scrape off any accumulated ice on the on the catenary wires as the trams normally go about their schedule with no interruption.
But here, for some reason, even after four previous winters with the trams to learn how to deal with things like this, it is still a problem at least once a winter. Does all winter operational knowledge get baked out of their brains during the heat and humidity of the summer? Or is turn-over that bad at GrandLinq that there's nobody left come November with experience in the previous winter?
It reminds me of last winter when the snowplows dumped large amounts of ice and heavy, wet snow onto the tracks in multiple locations, preventing the trams from getting through. Apparently all because nobody thought to review snowplow procedures along the ION route and where plow operators push the snow from the roads onto.
I don't know whether it's individual incompetency or organisational incompetency that prevents them from planning ahead or learning from past experiences, but it's incompetency somewhere. I feel that these repeated issues with ION need to be addressed in a public council meeting with Regional services staff and GrandLinq staff answering some very uncomfortable questions.