Auckland Transport Blog: Signal and Track faults

[#Metro]

Sounds like Brisbane
http://transportblog.co.nz/2012/04/19/695-signal-or-track-faults-in-one-year/ :conf

Answers to parliamentary written questions from Phil Tywford give a worrying view about the state of Auckland rail network. Over the past year there have been 454 signalling and 241 points faults across the network which is almost 2 per day. Now I am fully aware we are currently in the process of upgrading the network including installing a brand new, state of the art system however this number seems amazingly high. This is especially when you consider that the new system has already been installed across a large amount of the network but also when you compare the results to the same ones from a few years ago when we were also in the middle of duplicating the Western line. Here is the answer from the last time the question was asked:

[#Metro]

I wonder what Toronto and Hong Kong's is.

[colinw]

This is dumb-a** politics.

Auckland's existing signalling is ancient. It is the process of getting new signalling and ETCS level 1, which will be a step change in capability.

Bitching about the old system during its run-down to decommissioning is pointless.