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first off, kudos to anyone who knows which movie that is from
and now onto why this is a sighting
the utah transit authority is turning stupid
on monday I went to ride one of the new front runner trains. on the way downtown I got on a trax train at my normal station... I got on at 9:15 and boy was I surprised to see they were only running two car trains... I'll get to how that is sucky/stupid later. On the way into downtown, at central pointe the doors at the back of the train stuck open and it took the operator over 5 minutes to get the doors to close manually so he could put out of order stickers on it... and sadly at all the stations people still tried to use the doors.
now the other part of the suck... after the original TRAX line opened the trains were overloaded from day one... you'd think that UTA would have figured out that guess what, train lines do well in utah... you'd be wrong... the front runner trains opened and from day one they were already standing room only and they don't have enough cars to runner longer trains. Oh and it gets better, at the same time they opened front runner they opened a TRAX extension. This extension requires 4 new trains to maintain the current schedule... rather than buying new cars they decided just to run shorter trains... OK, WTF, you are opening a TRAX extension and Frontrunner are supposed to have 10,000 new riders a day and they are running shorter trains
though on a brighter note, watching comedy central I noticed the commercial for Lewis Black's new show includes a review for the Salt Lake City Weekly... yay, we made it on the map for something other than temple square (granted, I really like temple square, but for the love of God, I'd like my town to eventually be known for something other than that).
and now onto why this is a sighting
the utah transit authority is turning stupid
on monday I went to ride one of the new front runner trains. on the way downtown I got on a trax train at my normal station... I got on at 9:15 and boy was I surprised to see they were only running two car trains... I'll get to how that is sucky/stupid later. On the way into downtown, at central pointe the doors at the back of the train stuck open and it took the operator over 5 minutes to get the doors to close manually so he could put out of order stickers on it... and sadly at all the stations people still tried to use the doors.
now the other part of the suck... after the original TRAX line opened the trains were overloaded from day one... you'd think that UTA would have figured out that guess what, train lines do well in utah... you'd be wrong... the front runner trains opened and from day one they were already standing room only and they don't have enough cars to runner longer trains. Oh and it gets better, at the same time they opened front runner they opened a TRAX extension. This extension requires 4 new trains to maintain the current schedule... rather than buying new cars they decided just to run shorter trains... OK, WTF, you are opening a TRAX extension and Frontrunner are supposed to have 10,000 new riders a day and they are running shorter trains
though on a brighter note, watching comedy central I noticed the commercial for Lewis Black's new show includes a review for the Salt Lake City Weekly... yay, we made it on the map for something other than temple square (granted, I really like temple square, but for the love of God, I'd like my town to eventually be known for something other than that).
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