Re: Re: TAN: Newark, NJ, aka "The Beauty And The > Beast". 2 of 2

Hi Pete,

The cars are being tested to death with weights and sand bags etc., all
senior trainers are running them (out of service as the seat padding has
still to be added) all over the place all day, they plan on running them as
extra cars, in service, during full training so these problems won't happen,
if a car fails, it won't be a reduction in service.

Some interesting problems have arisen, the CCTV instead of mirrors is great,
if you don't drive at night, any following auto's headlights blind the
camera! The dead man feature has a hard spring in the controller handle
(palm of hand) and the hand has to be on for ten seconds, lifted clear for 3
seconds, just peachy in traffic!!! As I said, great for the systems they
operate in France with no conflicting traffic!!! Welcome to the ral world
Citadis!!

Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter D. Ehrlich" <[email protected]>
To: "TramsDownUnder" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 3:09 AM
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Re: TAN: Newark, NJ, aka "The Beauty And The >
Beast". 2 of 2

In a message dated 4 Sept 2001 @ 1228 GMT, "Herman R. Silbiger"
<[email protected]> wrote:

Peter,

I don't quite understand why NJT is having these problems with the Kinki
Sharyo cars. The ones running on the Hudson
Bergen line are performing very satisfactorily. Ridership, although off

to a

poor start is now exceeding expectations.

The problem of reduced frequency has occurred everywhere that larger

capacity

equipment has been introduced. The reason
for introducing large capacity equipment is to reduce operating cost, a

large

part of which is personnel cost. Poorer service is
an unfortunate concomitant.

Herman

I can. There was apparently an inadequate testing program. (All of it

was

done at night and on weekends, after the PCCs had quit for the night.)

When

I asked if the Newark City Subway operators had done some training with

the

new cars on Hudson-Bergen, he replied "No, but we should have." That

would

have given them more hands-on experience.

To my knowledge, there was never any "simulated service" program on Newark
City Subway like we had with Muni Metro back in 1980 before the subway
opened. They should have even tried a weekend or two of regular revenue
service to experience what carrying people and the associated issues with
the doors, etc., would be like. Now they are having to do damage control.

The new printed schedule called for 7-minute midday service and 13-minute
running time, up a minute from PCC schedules. I think NCS can pretty well
kiss that good-bye.

To bring this back into focus for this group, will the Melbourne Citadis
trams have a rigorous testing program, or are they going to put 'em in
service in one swell foop?

Milantram





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