I don’t know how tomorrow is going to go:
Story here. They shut down all trains in a day with relatively good weather, and service is STILL not restored!
Incompetence in management seems the most likely scenario. Right now our plan for tomorrow is the wife is going to take the first train into the city (which is actually the 2nd train on the normal schedule, and the 3rd normal train is also cancelled) I will be rushing out the door to get the baby to daycare and back home to park my car and rush to the train so hopefully I can catch what will be the last rush-hour train before the mid-day schedule starts up, and will be leaving work early so I hopefully can make it home to pick the baby up at a reasonable hour.
You shouldn’t have to, but wish me luck.
The explanation is brutally simple; governments love new toys, but hate to pay for maintenance. Consequently, nothing run by the government (outside of the military, where people with guns are depending on this stuff) runs to spec for more than a few months.
This is but one of a large number of reasons why any time a politician starts to blovate about light rail, he should be immediately horsewhipped.
You should move to America.