The braking glitch that triggered mass BART delays this wet winter could pose a major challenge after its used to protect safety in a major earthquake, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has learned.
“It sounds like BART has a wholesale problem,” said transportation consultant Jerry Cauthen, a five decade veteran of the public transit sector. He says emergency braking shouldn’t create its own kind of emergency. “You want to try to avoid that in a braking system -- if they have a braking system that's got that problem,’’ he said, “they've got to weigh whether it makes sense to replace it.
“Anything we can do to eke out even a fraction of a second is going to help because it will get them doing what they're doing sooner,’’ de Groot said. But BART officials have acknowledged that using the emergency brakes on its new trains has triggered wet weather delays. Similar damage from a quake, experts say, would likely force trains to operate more slowly for months to allow times for all the trains to be serviced.He said BART hoped to resolve the braking wheel flat issue when it stopped accepting new cars for a year in 2021. But in the end, BART opted to resume shipments last year without resolving it.
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