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Posted by gOld_12th on Wed Jan 8 07:54:10 2020, in response to R-179 car saga... The entire fleet is Out of Service! AM rush hour...haha, posted by gold_12th on Wed Jan 8 00:31:10 2020. The newest fleet of NYC Transit subway cars is having a tough time on the rails lately.Dozens of cars built by Bombardier for the latest train model — known as the R179, which now run on the J/Z and C lines — were sidelined this week after suffering from different kinds of maladies, from door problems, propulsion issues and air compressors, sources told The News. Even the springs that hang between train cars were bolted on too tight, ripping holes in the car body, sources and transit officials told The News. Those springs are safety barriers to prevent people from stepping between cars from the platform. “That could be why I haven’t seen them as often on the C train,” said Andrew Albert, the riders advocate on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board. “If they’re defective, Bombardier has to make good. Not only are they two years late, they have defects.” There were 112 of these cars — costing roughly $2 million a piece — on the tracks as of December. The rest of the roughly 300-car order has yet to be filled, according to MTA public reports. There were 16 defective new model cars out of the 96 cars at the East New York yard. There were another 32 new model cars in the transit system that had defects that forced them off the tracks. “We have very high standards for the safety and performance of our subway cars, and if there’s an issue on a car we work to get it addressed right away,” said MTA spokesman Shams Tarek. “We continue to work through reliability issues with Bombardier; (NYC Transit) President (Andy) Byford is directly involved with bi-weekly meetings with Bombardier to force action on outstanding issues and deliver the remainder of the contract.” Bombardier spokeswoman Maryanne Roberts said that the Montreal-based manufacturer has 50 full-time workers in New York working round the clock on the R179 cars. “Introducing and integrating new cars with new technologies into existing transit systems is challenging and it’s not unusual to have some issues,” Roberts said. “Thus, we have over 50 full-time employees in New York City, working around the clock in support of the R179 fleet, as the in-service safety and performance of the new cars is paramount.” NYC Transit, meanwhile, is desperate to get the cars running on the tracks so that it can retire the oldest of the 20th-century model cars still in operation, called R32. Bombardier was already late to deliver the cars because of a cracking issue discovered during manufacturing. Even more problems cropped up once they started carrying riders in 2017, forcing the MTA to briefly suspend testing for nearly a week at the time. “They’re in really rough shape. I see so many stuck door panels,” Albert said of the oldest models. “We’re putting good money after bad with those.” https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-metro-r179-mta-train-car-20190108-story.html |
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