FY Quarterly Capital Program update

From Nov. 7th Board meeting, this pdf has excellent summaries of all of the ongoing, planned and completed capital projects. http://www.wmata.com/about_metro/board_ ... Update.pdf

Some interesting tidbits:
"During the first quarter, Metro welded 325 open weld joints, rehabilitated 2,409 linear feet of grout pads, tamped 9.30 miles of track, repaired 609 leaks, and replaced 2.28 miles of running rail, 1.97 miles of third rail, 5,080 cross ties, 4,667 fasteners, 1,783 insulators, 10 yard turnouts, and 237 safety signs."

"Later this year, Metro is scheduled to award a contract for the New Electronic Payments Program (NEPP). NEPP will replace Metro’s existing fare collection system with the next generation of fare payment technology to expand customer choices and make riding the system more convenient through the acceptance of contactless payment and identification cards, along with mobile devices and other standards-based contactless media."

Page 15 has photos of the 7000-series test track/commissioning work.

Metro is now rolling out installation of on-board event recorders - see pg 16.

"JDC"
Metro is now rolling out installation of on-board event recorders - see pg 16.

This must be an upgrade of the event recorders. The only cars that presently don't have event recorders are the 1 and 4k cars.

Sand Box John wrote:This must be an upgrade of the event recorders. The only cars that presently don't have event recorders are the 1 and 4k cars.

Believe it or not, event recorders are being installed in the 1k and 4k cars. The Breda cars were actually spec'd and built to accommodate a future event recorder installation so much of the wiring and data collection instrumentation is already in place. Testing is wrapping up and roll out will begin soon. Even more surprisingly the vendor is once again Sepsa, who haven't exactly proven themselves a model of reliability. On that note, testing is also under way to retrofit the failure prone 5k event recorders with the more modern but very similar hardware used in the Alstom cars.