SkyTrain Ka-Put Again. Is TransLink Out Of It’s Depth?
It is becoming all to regular, the Expo and Millennium Lines go down; TransLink can’t cope with the problem and transit customers are badly dealt with.
I think new TransLink CEO, Kevin Desmond is out of his league and if these frequent stoppages do not cease, he must resign.
What is even more disturbing is one TransLink spokesperson states that the problem is “mechanical”, while another spokesperson states the problem is “communications”.
TransLink, it seems, can’t even get their story straight, yet regional mayors want more and more taxes to keep this “ship of fools” in operation.
A “Ship of fools” indeed!
SkyTrain service resumes after multiple trains fail
Vancouver, BC, Canada / News Talk 980 CKNW | Vancouver’s News. Vancouver’s TalkPosted: November 01, 2016
Ai??Good news if youai??i??re getting ready to head home for the evening commute.
TransLink says itai??i??s cleared a backlog of disabled trains and regular service is resuming after after a mid-afternoon meltdown left a dozen trains out of commission.
TransLink spokesperson Ann Drennan says a technical issue around 1Ai??p.m.Ai??impacted service on the Expo Line in both directions from Waterfront to King George.
ai???There were 12 trains are impacted by the issues and those trains have to be manually driven back to the stations, six of them have already been brought back in.ai???
From News 1130 Radio
Mechanical issues cause SkyTrain delays
Posted Nov 1, 2016 1:46 pm PDT
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) ai??i?? Service is slowly returning to normal after major delays on the Expo and Millenium Lines this afternoon.
TransLink says there were temporary service delays due to mechanical issues on several trains across both lines. TransLink says the trains lost communication with computer systems.
Some SkyTrain users say the trains were stopped between stations for over an hour. Many people on Twitter were expressing their outrage and panic, calling on on TransLink to tell them what was going on and to make more announcements on the train. One person tweeted they were stuck on a train in the middle of the tracks for nearly 90 minutes before the train moved again.
Millennium Line wasAi??temporarily extended to Edmonds, while the Expo Line wasAi??running between King George and Edmonds stations only, with service to downtown paralyzed.
Drennan says the problem was a ai???train control communications issue,ai??? in which the 12 impacted trains lost contact with the main computer system and froze.
The Canada Line wasAi??unaffected.
