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Surviving A Storm

Pittsburgh's light rail line is recovering from the severe weather that slammed the eastern US this week. In planning for Kansas City's light rail system, much thought should be given to handling the extreme storms that can wreak havoc in our metro. Pittsburgh's transit agency says "it was an act of nature that we just weren't prepared for."

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  1. dustin February 16th, 2007 6:07 pm

    Well, if we follow Chastain’s plan by the letter we are going to have an embedded power system and not the overhead wires. Still probably some problems with weather on that system as well. besides that it’s not well tested….

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