Your tax dollars at work:
A series of errors sent two MetroRail trains carrying passengers within half a mile of a possible head-on collision in the Texas Medical Center area this month, Metro officials revealed Monday.
Metropolitan Transit Authority controllers at the Houston TranStar traffic center learned of the situation when the operator of one train, who was new on the job, called them for advice after proceeding more than half a mile on a track intended for trains going the opposite direction, officials said.
Nice work, Casey Jones. But according to Metro, they should get a mulligan:
Metro executive vice president John Sedlak said that incident May 9 was the first time since the 7.5-mile Red Line opened Jan. 1, 2004, that trains were running toward each other on the same track without supervisors’ knowledge.
Yeah, it was the first time. But it wasn’t the only time:
Six days later, a less hazardous wrong-way situation occurred between two trains, neither carrying passengers, near Metro’s maintenance yard.
And what’s the penalty for endangering the lives of passengers and bystanders, not to mention millions of dollars in taxpayer equipment? A week’s vacation:
the operator of the northbound train was suspended for five days under terms of the union contract and is not driving trains
Lovely.
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Two words: Gomez Addams.
Casey Jones just got handed his walking papers????
You would think that Metro would have more safety measures in place to automatically notify everyone involved if there are two trains on the same track. Especially for the price we paid for this rail.
Metro - creating the ultimate Brown streak.
I’m not allowed to drive the train
Or even ring the bell
But when the damn thing jumps the track
Just see who catches hell
An my name is ?????
But yet all driver’s are supposed to be perfect, or they get excoriated…why don’t THEY get a mulligan?
well i really want to know how many passengers were on this mother who could have been hurt.
i know its a well traveled route.
If I drive the wrong way down I-45, do you think I’ll get a free vacation out of it?
There is no way I’d risk my life getting on one of those trains! You take you life in your hands when you fight the urban pioneers AND now they drive the trains on the wrong track.
Metro trains are deathtraps!
Ya’ll missed the message!!!
Metro said “(1st time) that trains were running toward each other on the same track without supervisors’ knowledge.”
without supervisors’ knowledge
they know they’ve done it before
Two toy trains will it be now
Mister Brown’s ego
Little kiddies on the plow
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Toot toot little kiddies go
A Brown legacy
It’s just more Metro outflow
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I this Metro lite?