Atlanta Streetcar Hit With Double-Whammy of Bad News This Week

[marmar]

GA: Atlanta Streetcar Hit With Double-Whammy of Bad News This Week

KATIE LESLIE ON SEP 24, 2015
SOURCE: MCCLATCHY


Sept. 23--It's a tough week for the Atlanta Streetcar. The transit system was hit with a double-whammy of bad news after a vandal hopped a city fence overnight Monday and spray-painted multiple cars, just as an internal audit revealed multiple deficiencies in the streetcar's management and safety operations.

The audit, which was conducted in July and released to the city council this week by Mayor Kasim Reed's office, found that neither the previous manager nor current director of streetcar services had read its system safety program plan. The manager, who has since left the project, also hadn't read the system's security and emergency preparedness plan.

What's more, the director of streetcar services "denied any active management responsibilities for the system, even though the auditors cited the passages describing the tasks and responsibilities directly from the relevant documentation," states the executive summary, prepared by Kensington Consulting. .....................(more)

http://www.masstransitmag.com/news/12118177/the-atlanta-streetcar-hit-with-double-whammy-of-bad-news-this-week

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. Sounds like passive-aggressive incompetence

If you're not for a project but don't want to come out against it publicly, make sure it doesn't work.

[DonCoquixote]

2. Yes, that is the default

mode of attack in Dixie for mass transit. The GOP types, after they fail to come against it, will let it grow just enough to be harvested, so that they can use it to get grants, and then say "oops, it failed, let's build more highways."

[valerief]

3. Streetcars mean fewer cars on the road and that means less fuel being used.

Oilmen don't like that shit.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. Yes, whenever the Minneapolis paper has an article about light rail

the anti-transit crowd rushes onto the online comments.

Only, it seems that some of them must be from outside of Minnesota or at least outside the Twin Cites, because they talk about not wanting to live in a city but in a suburb where they can have a yard and aren't exposed to gang activity.

Uh...both Minneapolis and St. Paul are largely single-family homes with yards, and what gang activity there is is confined to a few of the poorest neighborhoods. I guess their ideas of city life come from watching Law and Order reruns.

[marmar]

5. Bachmann supporters?