Board members grilled Metro staff and outside experts on whether the agency was ready to return to automatic train operations, a mode abandoned 14 years ago after a deadly crash.
while removing those functions from human operators
Addi Matthew, director of maintenance of way at the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transportation Authority, said he checked that train sensory devices for the train-detection system that failed in 2009 had been replaced.“Seeing we haven’t used this system in a while, the software and hardware … are there updates that are needed to any of that before we move ahead?” Smedberg asked.
Board member Tracy Hadden Loh said she was pleased to see Metro lean on other agencies. She said she was confused about why Metro hadn’t returned to ATO in previous years, saying it seemed “super obvious.”
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