More Thursday morning rail news:
— The operator of the Ottawa, Ontario, light rail Confederation Line has outlined a plan to fix a length list of problems with the 7-month-old transit operation, but he city’s director of rail operations says the plan doesn’t meet the city requirements and does not include a timeline for fixing the issues. CTV News reports Rideau Transit Group’s plan includes addressing issues with brakes, passenger doors, and power over the next 10 months, with long-term work to address issues such as catenary system wear, switch heaters, and light rail vehicle heating and cooling.
— A $40 million project to make the Natick, Mass., commuter rail station fully accessible has begun. The MetroWest Daily News of Framingham, Mass., reports the 30-month project will upgrade the busiest Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority station which is not currently fully accessible under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The station, which serves about 1,250 passengers on an average weekday, will be reduced to a single track for much of the project but normal service is expected to continue.
— Work continues in central California on the state’s high speed rail line despite the COVID-19 pandemic, but the project has had to change its methods of operation. Valley Public Radio reports that social distancing moves include smaller safety meetings to start each day’s work and greater distance between workers where possible. Workers also are allowed to take voluntary furloughs, or leave on a given day if they feel unsafe about possible exposure, from a coughing coworker, for example.
John, How can you possibly know that his efforts to publicize charities have no effect. Maybe individuals less self centered than you have switched to Amazon Smile and helped donate part of the $144,958,582,84 Amazon has given to charities across the country. Are his posts railroad related, usually not. Can you skip his comments, easily.
There is only “one” Paul Marynowych in the whole country. And if this isn’t being used as a pseudonym, he is quite easy to locate and notify that his efforts have no value.
Anna; “Paul” is the resident amazon troll.
@1,250 daily passengers and it’s going to cost $40 million?
Who is this guy?
GREATERGOOD.COM is now 4 clicks a day.
Gerald – Gee, I must have missed those.
Al, Curt and Anna,
Most of Paul’s posts are alerting people to charity search engines that allow you to choose any number of charities and donate to them via online purchases(that’s what Amazon Smile does and it’s basically the same as shopping from Amazon, only difference is the website name Smile.Amazon.com, though they donate a paltry .5% of each purchase). His posts are harmless and every once in a while he posts something actually related to a news article or rail related(I’ve seen at least 2 such posts over the last year).
Mark – it is a downtown station with tracks below grade in that area. Would not be surprised to see an increase in passengers as a result of these improvements.
Usually “he” is pushing Amazon smile in his posts Al.
Anna; “we” don’t. Kalmbach’s moderators allow his nonsense to continue so; the only option the rest of us can exercise is to studiously ignore “him”.
I clicked on it and found no connection to Amazon, just another of many little known charities with their hands out for any sucker who falls for their cutesy website.
Curt: How do we get rid of him?
AH