Metro still hasn't submitted plan to return 7000 series to services 6 months after the derailment

Six months to the day after a derailment that has led to long wait times and misery for Metrorail riders, the commission overseeing Metrorail on safety says it has still not received a new plan from Metro for returning absent 7000 series trains to service.

Metro hopes to bring back eight 7000 series trains in late May by pledging to digitally measure their wheels daily. The transit agency plans to bring back more 7000s in the summer using what are called “automatic wayside inspection systems,” which are expected to have the ability to measure a train’s wheels as it passes by on the tracks.

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After more then 4 years of knowing of the problem with bad wheels set, WMATA has yet to implement a program to replace the the bad wheel sets with new ones. Had WMATA implement such a program after learning of the wheels set problem, the Rosslyn derailment likely would have never happened and none of the 7k cars would have been removed from service.

Sand Box John wrote: ↑Wed Apr 13, 2022 7:38 pm After more then 4 years of knowing of the problem with bad wheels set, WMATA has yet to implement a program to replace the the bad wheel sets with new ones. Had WMATA implement such a program after learning of the wheels set problem, the Rosslyn derailment likely would have never happened and none of the 7k cars would have been removed from service.

That would of been the ideal solution, but how much would it been to do so VS what they did back then?

Granted, it's now kicking the can down the line and I bet they're doing the same now... but that swap-out cost is going to hit them and it'll be more expensive in total than doing it right in the first place.