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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Thu Jun 12 21:19:03 2008, in response to Re: Photos: California Soul - MUNI Metro, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Thu Jun 12 20:21:47 2008. okay, 1 I don't find the J sketchy.2. The point of the screen is seeing which routes are approaching. viz. http://www.sfmunicentral.com/ 3. the two car train dilemma is as follows. The Metro has 5 (occasionally 6) routes. Muni has NEVER been able to operate the tunnel in a reliable and rider useful manner. In the early Boeing era, Js and Ns were joined at Duboce to run together in the tunnel, K,L,M same @ West Portal. Ridership climbed, Ns needed to be 2 car trains and con currently the Boeings' couplers began to fail more often. Delays entering the tunnels became intolerable. Meanwhile mgmt was sold the fantasy that Alcatel ATCS would fix everything, and the extension east of the Emb Station was built @ phenomenal cost WITHOUT a loop. So fast forward to 1998. After five years of early closing weeknights so that the "transmission" hardware could be bolted down between the rails and software could be tested (kinda like DoD star wars anti-missile tests), the new system went online. Not only did the ATCS constantly fail, the relaying of the trains east of the station trashed a long functional rider habit of riding downtown on one's train of choice in order to get a seat outbound in PM rush--think 5th Ave on the 7. The result was massive delays, trains sitting in he tunnels,riders getting angry enough to pop the doors and use the catwalk to the stations. So the coupling @ the portals was never really implemented w/ the Bredas, and after a long tussle w/ TWU two car trains w/ (gasp) only one T/O monitoring the semi automatic operation have become the norm--except of course when cars available for service are |
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