tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post5803203114289166636..comments2023-10-30T11:47:53.134-04:00Comments on why.i.hate.dc: Was a destination error the cause of Friday's derailment?Dave Strouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12284013068083846700noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-83818372483914729302010-02-15T12:55:26.458-05:002010-02-15T12:55:26.458-05:00Overwork by train operators and other metro employ...Overwork by train operators and other metro employees may have led to the accident?<br /><br />The morning of the accident Peter Benjamin, head of the WMATA board, issued an E-mail thanking Metro workers for their hard work clearing snow the previous week. In his words:<br /><br /> *We are proud of all of you who put<br /> *in extra hours, who didn’t go home for<br /> *days, who cleared the snow at Metro<br /> *long before you tended to the walkways<br /> *and driveways of your homes. <br /><br />It looks like the morning of the accident the head of the board was congratulating every WMATA employee for "not going home for days". Seems like a pretty strong clue that overwork and lack of sleep led to the combination of errors causing the accident.<br /><br />Tim.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216647.post-21162555929035833842010-02-14T00:11:39.503-05:002010-02-14T00:11:39.503-05:00Its understandable and acceptable in my opinion if...Its understandable and acceptable in my opinion if this was due to human error, because humans make mistakes. It also seem that all of the automatic saftey features went right in spite of the human error, which is what is supposed to happen. This might be a case of Metro showing that their technology actually can and does work in the case of the eventual human mistake.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11646759338505889441noreply@blogger.com