Great story in
The Oregonian today about yesterday's light rail failure, and the story illustrates why the newspaper's
lost another nearly 8% of its circulation during the past year. Crack
Zero
reporter Joseph Rose homes in on the problem which resulted in a
cascade of substation failures: a little surge protector on the top of
one power pole. Its failure overloaded a nearby substation, and the
others overloaded when trying to take up the slack. The result: a
cascade effect that shut down half a dozen substations and brought the
entire "system" to a halt; one "train" blocked a downtown Portland
intersection, another was stranded on the Steel Bridge, and similar
tales of woe emerged across their vaunted "system".
Full essay is HERE!
1 comment:
LOL, Tri-mess, that should be in the dictionary.
HB
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