BIKE: Re: Las Vegas monorail shut down

[Michael Bluejay]

On Sep 7, 2004, at 8:34 AM, Mike Dahmus wrote:

> The point is that the entire LRT system in Houston isn't shut down 
> when some bonehead crashes into a train. The entire LRT system in 
> (pick your city) isn't shut down when one vehicle derails. That ONE 
> train is removed from service fairly quickly, and the rest of the 
> trains continue to operate.


This so completely fails to acknowledge my point that I'm going to do 
something I've never done before: repeat what I actually said verbatim 
without additional comment.

> By the way, you're *really* not being fair by harping on how the whole 
> system was shut down over this problem.  You know as well as anyone 
> why they shut the whole thing down:  It's a BRAND-NEW system, and when 
> there's a problem in a brand-new system, especially in Vegas where the 
> whole world is watching, they want to make damn sure that everything 
> is working perfectly.  Anyone who DIDN'T shut the whole thing down to 
> investigate an early failure should probably be fired.
>
> So not only *SO WHAT* that they had a problem during the first two 
> months of operation, but also
>
> *so FREAKING what* that they shut the whole thing down to investigate 
> that problem.