Overhauling and not replacing San Jose’s light rail cars

[daveklepper]

Overhauling and not replacing San Jose’s  light rail cars

San Jose’s light rail system should seriously consider overhauling their existing equipment, rather than buying new.  The cities that are operating PCC cars, such as Boston, Kenosha, and San Francisco, have had good experiences with these 70 to 77-year-old cars, either overhauled by Brookfield Engineering or doing in-house work with major parts supplied by them.

Port Authority Transit, The Alleghany River Port Authority’s Philadelphia-Camden-Lindenwald Line, overhauled their then-about 45-year old cars about twelve years age, and they are providing as good service and reliability as new cars.

San Jose might draw on both MUNI’s and PAT’s experience to write a contract for shipping one sample cdar to Brookfield, to obtain an evaluation and fo9r recommended alternatives in making these  cars state-of-th-art vehicles with costs accurately estimated.  Starting such a program in the near future ca allow the upgrading to take place one or two cars at a time, for minimum or no disruption of service.

 

[BaltACD]

daveklepper

Overhauling and not replacing San Jose’s  light rail cars

San Jose’s light rail system should seriously consider overhauling their existing equipment, rather than buying new.  The cities that are operating PCC cars, such as Boston, Kenosha, and San Francisco, have had good experiences with these 70 to 77-year-old cars, either overhauled by Brookfield Engineering or doing in-house work with major parts supplied by them.

Port Authority Transit, The Alleghany River Port Authority’s Philadelphia-Camden-Lindenwald Line, overhauled their then-about 45-year old cars about twelve years age, and they are providing as good service and reliability as new cars.

San Jose might draw on both MUNI’s and PAT’s experience to write a contract for shipping one sample cdar to Brookfield, to obtain an evaluation and fo9r recommended alternatives in making these  cars state-of-th-art vehicles with costs accurately estimated.  Starting such a program in the near future ca allow the upgrading to take place one or two cars at a time, for minimum or no disruption of service.

Irrespective of the points you make.

21st Century thought processes, especially for those involved in things like transit authorities, whatever is old has to go.  They think the only way to get 'recognized' for their 'superior intellect' is to create new things - even if the new thing are worse than the things they replaced.