This bit of news reminds me of a steel mill railroad I did some consulting work for many years ago. Pretty much the same issues. The railroad had devolved to daily derailments and break downs. Root cause, was of course, maintenance. The bean counters had folded the railroad maintenance (track and mechanical) into the plant maintenance, and over time, the unique knowledge of how to maintain "trains" had simply disappeared, with turn-over, retirements, seniority, etc.
For instance I remember that they had stopped maintaining traction motor blowers, because "the engines work OK without them". They couldn't understand why flash-overs skyrocketed in the nasty steel-mill environment. We recommended maintaining the blowers and the expensive traction motor failures dropped. Four inch side-bearing clearance resulted in putting a molten steel car in the river, but that's a story for another day.
mspetersen wrote:
Rather indicative of anything Govt manages. If it won't get a Politician Votes or a Bureaucrat promoted, they don't care.
If you read the next post after yours, you will find your anti government bias misses the mark.
Try public anti taxes propaganda and
private bean cutters [Emphasis added] leading to the same starvation diet for the folks on the ground with tools in their hands trying to keep things running for just one more day.
Brian
