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It was a rough morning commute today. Tens of thousands of commuters across metro Vancouver were late for work. After two sky train lines ground a hauled, official shut down on most of the system losing communication with the two trains. Here’s Debra Goble with what happened and why.
With school back in and most people’s summer vocation is just distant memory. The reality rush hour came back in, full forth this morning.
“Well, I’m not sure, if I’m going to make it anytime.”
It was just after 7:15, when the sky train went down, leaving tens of thousands of people scrambling to get where they were going.
“I’m from King George and I’m going to water front, but I have to like transfer here, so to other place.”
“I’m gonna be late for school.”
Extra buses were called in.
“I waited for like 15 minutes.”
“I say 45 minutes.”
For those already aboard, one of the 56 sky trains in service. It meant being stuck for anywhere between 2 and 30 minutes.
“Headache though and frustrating.”
“People get notorious?”
“Oh, no.”
It was a tough commute. All was because of a small piece of metal on the part of the track known as the loop.
“You see the thick wire running alone? That’s the loop and that communicates between train and the central computer. And what happened this morning is there was something in the railway didn’t belong there. It was picked up by the train and it took out one of those loops. When that happens the computer loses his contact with the train. And when that happens the automated system shuts down until we find out what the deal is with the train. Obviously, you don’t want trains bumping into each other.”
Translink says that didn’t and won’t ever happen because safety precautions like the one that was implemented today work. Still was about 4 hours before the sky train was completely back to normal.
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