nbc 4 Washington
A safety oversight agency on Wednesday ordered WMATA to keep all of its 7000-series railcars off Metro tracks until they meet safety requirements, saying that some cars that returned to service after a train derailment in the fall still don’t meet inspection criteria.
Metro had to pull all the 7000-series cars —which represent 60% of its fleet—after a derailment on the Blue Line on Oct.12. near the Arlington Cemetery station. More
Back in the 70s I used Metro every day. I lived in Arlington and could walk to Pentagon City before it became a mall. It was a gravel parking lot. From there I could get to GWU or my job at DOL. Quite convenient.
Not so much anymore.
This is BS. They don’t care about 7,000 cars being safe, they care about causing as much grief, and stress, and misery as possible so that no one can feel in control, or safe, or normal. That’s what these last two years have been about, and nothing else.
This is gonna cause a real gangland turf war.
Where the multiple gangs could kind of spread out their rider robberies before, they will now be fighting over the smaller pickings.
But the burning question in every Biden voter’s heart is “and this connects to the ‘insurrection’ of 1/6 how?” Whereas the House under Pelosi is thinking “just another charge we have to investigate Trump over”.
Graffiti “artists” hardest hit.
I call bullshit too but for another couple reasons.
First, there might in fact be some sub par passenger cars but 60%? C’mon man.
Second, there’s also a lack of workers & operators as the vax mandates have taken who knows how many out of the work force.
Both reasons are meant to hide the obvious, that is there were/are going to big lags in services and now TPTB can blame them on the lack of functioning cars.
Do you really think 1,000s of flights were cancelled over the holidays is normal? The system was over loaded which normally is handled but the personal cutbacks forced their hand.
I see this exact same thing happening on the WA ferry services who have lost somewhere between 121 and 200 operators who refused to get the vax. Consequently, the ferries can’t run anywhere near their scheduled times.
This is happening in a 100 different ways in a 1,000 different places. It can be no other way. The combination of sick & dying people combined with the pointless firing of 100s of others will only to continue to spool down a myriad of normal urban services. Utilities, law enforcement, street upkeep, garbage pickup, retail, package delivery, wholesale product delivery…name it, it’s going to get worse.
We are heading for a divided country all right, functioning red states and dystopian urban shitholes.
The Big Crapple.