Washington (7news) – The Commission, which Metrorail monitors at Safety, stated that the metro does not expand the use of automation to operate trains until it records a large decline in the number of automated trains that exceeds on the red line.
Since Metro started the so -called automatic train operation (ATO) on the red line on December 15th last year, the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission (WMSC) said from Monday that the trains have gone 221 times too far and survived the platform places. This is a dramatic increase and is much higher than the number of exceedings on the entire metrorail system in 2023, overlapping 144 trains.
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The WMSC takes into account that the station platform exceeds a security problem for both U -Bahn employees and passengers.
“If the platform cannot be used, the passengers cannot be able to extend the train with all the doors available on the train, which can lead to injuries or inability to safely evacuate the train to the platform during an emergency,” said Paul Smith at an online meeting at an online meeting.
“We said Metro that you have to get to the bottom of it if you want [us agree to allow them] In order to operate on other lines in ATO, ”David Mayer, CEO of the Security Commission, told the meeting. Metro officer previously said that in the near future they were to expand the use of ATO to all metrorail lines.
But the metro has a completely different attitude to the station crossing. In an explanation of 7News, the transit agency announced that the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) did not consider any platform problems, but a reliability problem.
“[Neither] Our colleagues – still the FTA – pursue exceeding as a security event, but as a reliability problem that we continue to monitor, ”says Metro's explanation. Metro is ready to get into ATO operations on the green line and in other lines this summer.”
In his statement, Metro also pointed out that trains exceeded the station platforms and trains that have exceeded red signals are two different things, and the red line trains have never overrun since ATO. Red signal injuries are viewed as a security problem.
Metro said that she would discuss the automatic train operation at a meeting of his board of directors, which will appear on Thursday of this week.
Before Metro had restarted on the red line at the end of last year, Metro had not used it since a crash on the red line in 2009, in which nine people died. In the end, ATO was not the cause of this crash.