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Mr_Gigabyte@mindlink.net (Mike Quigley) wrote:

>Martin_Williamson@mindlink.bc.ca wrote:
>
>>Skytrain considers any arrival or departure more than 30 seconds off
>>schedule to be late.
>
>There are some seemingly predictable delays with the Skytrain. On my way to
>work in New West, it has often stopped just a bit east of Royal Oak for a
>minute or two (this is around 11:30 in the morning). Coming home around
>8:30 at night, for some reason there is often manual operation between
>Patterson and Joyce, then west of Joyce it starts acting "normal" again...

You've perhaps noticed the 'third track' just outside of Metrotown.
It is used to position trains that will eventually go into extra
service when demand rises.  Perhaps one of those trains was going into
the siding while your train waited.
>
>Once I was on my way to work and it blew a major fuse, I sat above Boundary
>Road for about half an hour!!

It doesn't happen oftern, but when it does it's a real pain in the
sit-down...for everyone.