Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Metro-North’s New M-8 Commuter Car Debut Postponed About A Month

December 15, 2010 - According to a story published in the Connecticut Post, the spanking new New Haven line M-8 commuter cars are not coming on line this month as promised. Owing to a bug in the software, railway signal systems were disrupted while the cars were being tested. Kawasaki, that car's manufacturer, said the problem should be corrected soon.

I can't wait for these great-looking new cars to come on line into revenue service.


Click on the link for the whole story:
http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Software-glitches-disrupt-signals-push-back-900772.php

1 comment:

  1. There are 127,000 daily riders of the Metro-North New Haven lines who have waited a decade for these new cars. They were due in service a year ago... then they were promised by "the end of 2010".

    Now, at literally the 11th hour, Metro-North says "sorry", we can't make the promised delivery.

    And they announce this at an embargoed press conference with two reporters?

    For shame...

    JIM CAMERON / Chairman
    CT Rail Commuter Council
    www.trainweb.org/ct

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