MTA has purchased 26 new subway cars, each of which costs about $ 2 million. Model R179 will replace the old fleet of new York city subway system, whose average age is 22 years.
The problem is that 8-car trains during the tests with passengers on Board failed three tests during the two weeks, reports the Daily News.
<img src="/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/12/e58f9f67f3bb14b5e602d12fd305b3fa.jpg" alt="New subway cars, for which MTA paid $2 million, broke down for the third time” />
19 Nov console on the control panel showed that one of the cars opened a door, although it was not so. On the same day the train broke the emergency brake when he ran into a bucket that someone threw on the road in Queens.
November 27 – the engine of the train refused when climbing a hill on the outskirts of the station Sutphin Blvd.
30 Nov – in Bushwick, Brooklyn, on the remote there is a signal about the problems with the door though it was closed.
The third failure model R179 forced the MTA to suspend a 30-day test cycle that threatens to further delay the delivery of cars from the company Bombardier (which is already two years behind schedule).
«The problems we identified are not insurmountable,» said acting NYC Transit President Phil eng. «We are optimistic, but cautiously optimistic».
The canadian engineering company Bombardier is one of three, along with the French manufacturer Alstom and Kawasaki of the Japanese, which, according to experts, can meet the strict standards of the MTA.
According to the MTA, proposals from Alstom and Kawasaki were better on technical characteristics, but Bombardier requested for 57 million dollars less.
