by MCL1981
I read one on that list where an operator actually got of the train, pushed a switch into alignment, blocked it in place with a piece of wood, and proceeded to drive her loaded revenue train over a derail.
It's kind of weird how that list doesn't really seem to be prioritized.
If revenue cars are running red signals, it's a much bigger deal than some of the hypothetical design issues they observed at the car wash.
"200 items" makes a great headline, but some of those items are massive and quite troubling (and could require a costly and extensive fix), while others pertain to trivial or hypothetical issues that pose a far smaller safety risk. It's still fairly opaque as to what Metro needs to do to improve.
[Sidenote: As a software engineer, I raised my eyebrows at the number of times that Maximo was mentioned. Has anybody investigated whether or not Maximo is constraining WMATA's ability to operate effectively, or if WMATA's implementation of the system has systemic problems that need to be corrected? I've worked with a few enterprise workflow tools (not including Maximo) and I don't have favorable opinions about any of them.. -- they tend to be hasty re-creations of paper-based workflows that end up being a "black hole" for data]
