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Re: A PARK??? Re: Budget Concerns Threaten To Derail Fulton Transit Hub |
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Posted by JohnL on Fri Feb 1 07:41:45 2008, in response to Re: A PARK??? Re: Budget Concerns Threaten To Derail Fulton Transit Hub, posted by RonInBayside on Fri Feb 1 01:39:36 2008. I wonder about the escalators. Certainly they are going to be pounded for a lot of the day, every day. But that says they should be designed to take the pounding. Other cities, eg London, manage their escalators much better.Now, yes, London does have luxury of shutting down overnight, when they can perform escalator maintenance. But the MTA could take individual escalators out of service in the small hours (and advertise it in advance!) for maintenance. And escalator replacement does seem to take much longer than necessary. I saw multiple escalator replacements at Court St/Borough Hall when I worked in the area. A lot of them appeared to go on the same timeframe: 1) Hoardings erected. 2) Existing mechanism removed. Sometimes steps stored in corner, sometimes removed from premises. 3) Wait. 4) Wait. 5) Wait. 6) Wait… You get the idea. Now some of the replacements involved Asbestos abatements (at least according to the notices on the hoardings) but I would take a look at the work site and see no changes for months at a time. Again, I contrast this with London where major escalator repairs and replacements (think of all the wooden escalators being removed after the Kings Cross fire) were handled much more expeditiously. I wonder whether the piecemeal construction of escalators in New York has resulted in a situation where the MTA’s escalator collection has few/no common spare parts and budgetary constraints mean that refurbishment has to mean that the escalator parts are shipped away, worked on, and then returned. If this is the case, I would be looking at how much it would cost to standardize escalators to a few models so that I could have a reasonable spare parts inventory. |
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