Downed power lines disable 2 SE light rail stations
By Bill Scanlon, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published February 21, 2008 at 7:58 a.m.
Updated February 21, 2008 at 7:58 a.m.
The two southernmost stations of RTD's southeast light rail line lost power early this morning, keeping people off the Lincoln and County Line stations, RTD reported.
The outage likely will continue through this evening’s rush hour.
Ten RTD trains are shuttling people from the two stations to the Dry Creek station, but people who normally hop on at the two downed stations should expect to take an extra 10 minutes to get to work, RTD spokesman Scott Reed said.
An insulator in the overhead power lines broke about 2:30 this morning, Reed said. “Because there is so much tension on those wires there was a ripple effect causing the power line itself to break,” he said.
Crews have been on the scene, and RTD will announce when the stations will be back in service, Reed said. It likely won’t be until after this evening’s rush hour, but with luck the stations will be back running before tomorrow morning’s rush.
The news comes one day after RTD reported record highs in ridership. RTD reached 96 million passenger miles in 2007, up from 86 million in 2006 -- with both light rail and bus service reaching record highs in the fourth quarter.
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SteveFesch writes:
So the Fast tracks project which is close to Two Billion dollars over budget is already failing. Wasn't long ago they had a train crash. Now power lines are failing on a NEW system. Where does that leave us when the project is many more billions in debt and power lines are snapping and failing all over the system?
Good thing the old reliable and EFFICIENT bus system is there to save the day AGAIN. Funny how that works.