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Originally Posted by Deltic
London Mayor Ken Livingstone, who controls the city's underground commuter train system, said he's powerless to force a contractor to improve its maintenance of the Northern Line because he's bound by contracts signed before he took over. London Underground's Northern Line, the rail system's busiest, shut Oct. 12-14 after a series of emergency-brake failures on trains. City transportation chief Robert Kiley yesterday said Alstom SA's 20-year agreement to maintain trains on the line should be scrapped because of the breakdowns.
(source: Bloomberg)
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U'ground breakdowns. Anybody who thinks machines never break down is either in cloud cuckoo land or the Stone Age. Kiley and Livingstone might usefully "get a life". How many Shuttles have crashed? Best brains in the world, etc etc. The people who do the work are not those who sign the contracts. I do not hear Kiley rushing to do "quality control/ final inspections" to shew the engineers how tis done.