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When things go wrong
| 题名： | When things go wrong |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | Mischa Wanek-Libman |
| 摘要： | Mass Transit's editorial mission is to serve as a best practices magazine for the North American transit industry. What this means is that our content is heavily focused on sharing the industry's successes. Who doesn't like reading about a group of professionals who banded together to develop a solution that enhanced service, expanded a network or helped bridge a gap between opportunity and need. However, a more difficult story to share is one where things don't go as planned. They may flat out fail initially but lessons and value exist in failure just as much as success. And failure may be too strong of a word, merely non-successes. We've all heard the quote attributed to Thomas Edison that he did not fail to do something 10,000 times, but successfully found 10,000 ways to not do something. A quick observation of our story analytics this summer would appear to show a surplus of projects that look to have encountered setbacks in their progress. As of this writing, the Hudson River Tunnel project is estimated to be delayed by three years and has reportedly seen its costs increase by $2 billion; the eight-mile Valley Line Southeast light-rail project in Edmonton, Alberta, is delayed because of cracks in 40 percent of the project's elevated guideways and Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has been directed by the Federal Transit Administration to get its safety culture and practices in order following a string of high profile incidents. These are by no means failures, but certainly qualify as significant challenges. |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | Mass Transit |
| 卷： | 48 |
| 期： | 6 |
| 页码： | 6-6 |
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