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Scumandvillany t1_j9vbrpt wrote

There was a derailment a few days ago, AFTER the major one a couple weeks ago. After the most recent derailment, they drug the train back to the shed. Soon after that, emergency track repair ensued(probably due to the train being dragged), and now MORE track repairs in the same area?

This kinda goes back to my long rant about systemic failure in industrial maintenance, and it is painting a narrative that does not bode well. Further losses in skilled labor might send the system over the edge from subfailure to overt failure. Very bad news. It already seems that upper management is incompetent, but if that's filtering down to first level management and maintenance, I just dunno. Those new cars can't come soon enough.

Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I've seen institutional maintenance failures cascade and it's not pretty and it's not easily recovered from.

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Indiana_Jawns t1_j9vcmfx wrote

This fire was apparently caused by a construction vehicle hitting a power line, not SEPTAs fault.

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Scumandvillany t1_j9vcycx wrote

That's good news, but unfortunately black swan events(due to operations mismanagement or no) can expose underlying systems that are hanging by a thread.

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Indiana_Jawns t1_j9vhis4 wrote

Sure, in the same what that a truck tipping over can expose how easily out highway system can be shut down. In the end you can only engineer a system to be safe in so many circumstances and you have to rely on people not being idiots. Sadly construction workers causing damage seems to be an escalating issue, hopefully they’ll be held accountable for the damage.

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flamehead2k1 t1_j9vidy5 wrote

The issues is more acute with rail because it is harder to reroute

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Indiana_Jawns t1_j9vkflc wrote

Yeah, but they point is I’m there isn’t much septa can do to prevent construction workers from idiotically taking down power lines and starting fires.

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flamehead2k1 t1_j9vm169 wrote

If it is construction within their system, they can make improvements to policies abs supervision to make them less likely.

If it was a Peco substation down the road, definitely less control

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avo_cado t1_j9vw38a wrote

Collapsing society

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beancounter2885 OP t1_j9xaiwd wrote

If a redirection on the el is the collapse of society to you, maybe you only have first world problems. I was just trying to give people a heads up.

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ForwardPress t1_j9wyn4m wrote

2016-2020 the quiet things happening in the background from the federal down to local levels concerning infrastructure and government administration are devastating. The gutted some vital institutions and disrupted checks and balances in place. It's fucked. Made everything vulnerable enough the previous 20 years that it worked.

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Barmelo_Xanthony t1_ja0o5a9 wrote

Shit was already falling apart we just went from doing the bare minimum of upkeep and maintenance to saying "don't look at it, it's fine."

If our infrastructure was in good shape before it wouldn't have been able to fall apart in just 4 years.

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FormerHoagie t1_j9x5lgg wrote

I got stuck in this mess today. I wish I’d had some noise cancelling device so I didn’t have to hear people bitching, like it was going to solve anything. The worst was some old guy who started screaming that people were blocking the stairs down to the platform at Huntingdon. He was completely unhinged. He finally got to the platform and had to wait another 15 mins, like everyone else. He was very punchable because you could hear the racism in his tone. Yes, I see the irony in me bitching about people bitching.

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