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Is Dr. Gridlock actually Dr. Strangelove? He’s got a post up documenting the hearings going on right now on Capitol Hill, and not the ones dealing with potential Supreme Court justices. The whole thing is full of colorful Cold War language: The term entered the common language during the Cold War when Eugene Burdick wrote an Continue reading You can’t fight in here, this is the War Room! Freakonomics had a nice post about the media coverage of Metro’s recent crash, drawing parallels with airline crashes and the perception about the safety of these various transport modes: But what the media very rarely mention is that the carnage on our roads makes these much-hyped accidents look almost trivial. Nine lives is nine too many, Continue reading Man Bites Dog Dr. Gridlock has a couple of posts on the NTSB’s recent discovery of the failure of the ATO system to detect that Red line train: As previously reported, initial testing showed that when the test train was stopped at the same location as the train that was struck in the accident, the train control system lost Continue reading More clues… News today that the track circuit underneath the stalled Metro train in Monday’s crash failed: The track circuit below the Washington Metro train that was rear-ended by another train this week didn’t work, U.S. transportation safety investigators found in a test.The circuit was supposed to relay information about the location of trains. The National Transportation Safety Continue reading Track Circuit Didn’t Work In the wake of Monday’s Red Line crash, DC’s various news outlets have uncovered all sorts of interesting factoids about Metro’s safety record and the implementation of various NTSB recommendations. Speculation about the causes have run rampant, ranging from mildly informed theories to pure guesswork. Some immediately blamed the now deceased operator, citing likely use Continue reading Metro Crash Aftermath |
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