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There hadn’t been a report of the Trillium Line O-Train going through a signal in 14 years.
That streak ended on Nov. 18, 2015.
Council and the transit commission learned Friday that Transport Canada flagged two instances of a train going through signals in the last two months of the year.
There was no damage and no one was hurt, but now the city has to explain to the federal agency what it will do to reduce the hazards.
In the November incident, a train stopped past a signal located before the crossroads of the Trillium Line and the Via Rail line.
Then, on Dec. 24, a train stopped beyond a signal at the passing track near Gladstone Avenue.
According to a memo sent by city manager Kent Kirkpatrick, staff notified rail authorities. The “railway systems performed as intended,” he says.
The federal inspector, in a letter to the city, cited the “frequency of emergency brake application events” affecting train operators and “compromising safe operating practices.”
Kirkpatrick tells council and the transit commission that the city had already started a review of braking systems on the rail line. According to his memo, there’s a layer of protection on the rail system that automatically applies the emergency brake in certain circumstances, such as when a train is travelling at a speed outside its operating range.
The city spent $60 million on an upgrade of the eight-kilometre Trillium Line. The expansion, which launched last March, included new trains and improvements to the signal system.
The train upgrade hasn’t met its frequency targets — previously described by OC Transpo as an “ambitious goal” — and the transit department has already planned technical changes to the revamped rail line.
jon.willing@sunmedia.ca
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That streak ended on Nov. 18, 2015.
Council and the transit commission learned Friday that Transport Canada flagged two instances of a train going through signals in the last two months of the year.
There was no damage and no one was hurt, but now the city has to explain to the federal agency what it will do to reduce the hazards.
In the November incident, a train stopped past a signal located before the crossroads of the Trillium Line and the Via Rail line.
Then, on Dec. 24, a train stopped beyond a signal at the passing track near Gladstone Avenue.
According to a memo sent by city manager Kent Kirkpatrick, staff notified rail authorities. The “railway systems performed as intended,” he says.
The federal inspector, in a letter to the city, cited the “frequency of emergency brake application events” affecting train operators and “compromising safe operating practices.”
Kirkpatrick tells council and the transit commission that the city had already started a review of braking systems on the rail line. According to his memo, there’s a layer of protection on the rail system that automatically applies the emergency brake in certain circumstances, such as when a train is travelling at a speed outside its operating range.
The city spent $60 million on an upgrade of the eight-kilometre Trillium Line. The expansion, which launched last March, included new trains and improvements to the signal system.
The train upgrade hasn’t met its frequency targets — previously described by OC Transpo as an “ambitious goal” — and the transit department has already planned technical changes to the revamped rail line.
jon.willing@sunmedia.ca
twitter.com/JonathanWilling
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