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From a friend , this may be old news. Septa multi-level cars |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Sun Jul 16 12:16:30 2017 2421On Thursday, March 23, 2017 the SEPTA Board, at its regularly scheduled meeting, approved the award of a contract to CRRC MA Corp to purchase 45 multi-level coaches, with an option to purchase 10 more cars. New multi-level cars will increase capacity Multi-level fleet will be used to address service enhancements including additional Express trains Vehicles will have comfortable two-two seating arrangement on both levels No other cars currently in SEPTA fleet will be retired with the acquisition of multi-levels Issues and Major Initiatives Impacting Current Schedules Creating a Regional Rail schedule requires much more than identifying a start time for a trip and calculating time points for each station stop. Timetables are built by culling data from the Control Center and daily operational reporting, crew observations, customer comments and feedback and scheduling the work runs for hundreds of Rail employees who deliver our daily service. Add to this, Amtrak integration issues and changing service conditions resulting from the many maintenance and construction projects now possible by our robust, Act 89 funded capital program. Put this together and you have a complex effort to mesh all these elements into a schedule to run service for 13 Regional Rail Lines. Positive Train Control implementation Dwell times due to increased ridership, especially at low-level platforms Improved SEPTA/Amtrak schedule coordination Capital project coordination management More efficient fleet utilization |
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