How We Slowed the Subway Down

Re:How We Slowed the Subway Down by brutusborn on Friday December 23, 2022 @10:40PM (#34113715)

My guesses: -Lack of incentives for executives to improve performance

  -Lack of people with good ideas to plan improvements

  -Lack of skills to execute an improvement plan (due to relatively low salaries)

  -Pointless regulation

  -Deferred maintenance to ‘save money’

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Re:How We Slowed the Subway Down by ehnto on Friday December 23, 2022 @11:23PM (#34113953)

Indeed, I can see this being a bureaucractic challenge more than a technical one.

There are quite clear paths forward and no shortage of prior art for the engineering portion, unless there is something we aren't privvy to it must be lack of incentives and bureaucracy.

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Re:How We Slowed the Subway Down by rocqua on Saturday December 24, 2022 @05:04AM (#34115495)

My sense is that "we need 99.9% uptime so solutions that require maintenance downtime are not acceptable" even though the lack of solutions is a bigger drag on uptime. But if your mandate is uptime, voluntary downtime is not at all an easy choice. You get blamed for voluntary downtime whilst accidental downtime is not directly going to be blamed on anyone.

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