Re: Replace Talgo cars with what?
Author: les
Date: 05-27-2019 - 09:29
> Hey, lets spend millions of dollars to shave a
> couple minutes off the trip, then have some idiot
> crash the very first train and now we're going to
> replace the trainsets with slower @#$%& so it
> takes just as much time as it did before, if not
> more. Govt. at its finest.
I believe the entirety of the project was to shave more like 15 minutes off. 14 trains a day at ~811,000/365 ~ 2300 riders/day ==> 8000 rider hrs saved per day.
WSDOT was planning on buy new trains in 2014. Accident will speed that up by a few year, mean time need a band aid.