Management failures continue in the Washington Metro system. Over a month ago, a track worker was killed. Trains are supposed to be notified of track work ongoing, also see warning signs that track workers are ahead, and slow to 10 MPH in that construction area. And yet many workers note trains fly through construction areas at 50 MPH - full speed.
Death only in the Washington Metro account for over 40% of all American railroad workers. The 22 Jun crash and death of six passengers did what? Yesterday, add two more deaths. From the Washington Post of 27 Jan 2010:
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NTSB investigates Red Line accident that killed 2 Metro track workers
Federal officials investigating the deaths Tuesday of two Metro employees are trying to determine why the driver of a Metro utility vehicle did not know that the men were working behind him on the tracks. ...
Five Metro workers have been killed on the tracks in the past seven months. The safety problems, including a Red Line crash June 22 that killed nine people, have triggered an upheaval in Metro's leadership ...
Tuesday's accident occurred about 2 a.m. near the Rockville Station when a truck, modified to operate on the rails and moving in reverse, backed into two technicians who were working on the tracks as part of a separate crew.
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How often do so many failures continue until someone views the only common factor in all events? Death and near death stories have been almost monthly now on the Washington area Metro. From the Washington Post of 8 Jan 2010:
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Report finds slapdash safety culture at Metro
ANEW REPORT by the agency that monitors safety on Metro makes chilling reading -- nearly as chilling as the experience of some of the safety inspectors who helped write it. One team of inspectors was nearly run down by an onrushing Metro train on the tracks last month even as it was examining safety conditions for Metro track workers. According to the inspectors, the operator of the train made no attempt to slow down, let alone stop, or even to acknowledge the presence of the inspectors who had to scramble out of the train's path to safety.
That incident, which took place Dec. 10, sheds light on the some factors that have contributed to the deaths of six Metro workers hit by trains since October 2005, including two who were killed in the past five months even as the agency was conducting its review of track workers' safety. ...
They also extend to what appears to be a perverse culture when it comes to safety at Metro, in which train operators and track workers regard each other with open antagonism; Metro safety classes do not bother to teach Metro's own safety rules; and the transmission and accuracy of critical information -- for instance, the presence and location of track workers in the path of trains -- is slipshod and unreliable.
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They are not called accidents. They are murder. But when a murder is directly traceable to top management, then we call it an accident.
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The review found that train operators were speeding up rather than slowing down, as required, as they approached track workers who had not been fully cleared from the track right of way.
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That attitude should result in assault (if not murder) charges. So weeks after the chilling report, what happens? "Two more dead in Maryland"
What did the Navy do when problems existed. Navy had a three day stand down of the entire Navy. Management addressed problems directly traceable to top management.
How did Marchionne fix Fiat? In sixty days he fired all top management. Therefore Fiat became so productive as to even buy Chrysler. Only public silence can explain so many Washington Metro murders - especially when investigations have made the reasons so flagrantly obvious.