Phoenix News: Desert Heat Is A New Challenge For Phoenix Light Rail
PHOENIX – within six months of the S-Bahn line nations fifth largest city, has exceeded expectations so far, operators are currently working their biggest test – Arizona heat.
No other city in the country has an S-Bahn Phoenix not to condone the terms of summer temperatures regularly top 110, and even increased to 122 degrees. These test systems and equipment can hinder the driver of the walk of the railway and wait up to 20 minutes.
Tiffany Griffin Phoenix said that the heat is not from them by rail, as they will be saved $ 1500 she needed for her car, a new gearbox.
“Sitting here in anticipation of the heat in the subway, has been disappointing,” said Griffin, who gulped ice water from a giant plastic cups, waiting for a train to 108 degrees on the last day. “You do work that you’ve spent all day and it was so hot here Heck.
U-Bahn S-Bahn direction Rick Simonetta said he suspects some people will find other ways of working, if it is very hot. But he said he believes that the recent increase in rates will have more influence on the number of passengers.
In the local agency to pay the price for one side of 50 cents to $ 1.75 on Wednesday. Throughout the day 40 per cent from $ 2.50 to $ 3.50.
Consultants assess Bump will be at least 10 percent less than pilots, “said Simonetta.
On average, about 34,000 people now ride the subway on a weekday, about 8,000 people more than traders had expected. Monthly passenger figures reached in April, about 1 million passengers, but fell to 928,000 drivers in May and June, 807,000.
Light rail officials attribute some of the interruption until the end of the year, and Snowbird for college, leaving the Phoenix area during the summer have been allocated more than climate.
Simonetta said he feels the heat of the test on S-Bahn unit driver. “So far, no major problems that we see, but you know, we just wrote our first 110 degree days, and we know that there are many others.”
In Sacramento, California, 108 degrees at the end of time in June, caused by the collapse and separates the light rail trains in the business district of the city, a breach of about five hours over two days and left passengers in the heat.
Simonetta said Phoenix trains and stations have been designed for extreme temperatures. Outdoor Stations provide shade and cold water, and the trains are air-conditioned and heavily tinted windows.
