From: stephen@sprunk.org   
      
   On 11-Apr-15 14:28, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   > Stephen Sprunk  wrote:   
   >> On 11-Apr-15 12:56, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   >>> Platforms are hideously expensive. Metra has had standard-height   
   >>> platform replacement projects over the last several years, and   
   >>> they take an amazing 13 weeks under traffic.   
   >   
   >> Then someone needs to get fired.  DART replaced _dozens_ of   
   >> platforms while they were in service, closing them just two   
   >> weekends each plus working nights when there were no trains.  Start   
   >> to finish for each station was under a month.   
   >   
   >> Then again, you're saddled with unions, so taking three-plus times   
   >> as long (and probably ten-plus times as much money) is to be   
   >> expected. That's the price you pay for living in the Rust Belt.   
   >   
   > We don't close freight railroads for weekends.   
      
   Neither do we; that'd be silly.   
      
   It was just the stations that were closed, to give the crews longer   
   periods for heavy work on the platforms.  Trains still ran through every   
   few minutes, and there were shuttle buses to/from the next stations in   
   both directions so folks could still get where they needed to go.   
      
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