Officials say that they will be running de-icing trains every so often during upcoming snowstorms after a section of the $2 billion Canada Line was temporarily shut down by the weather Thursday morning. Two trains stalled which were full with passengers on two different parts of the tracks during rush hour because of ice and snow building up on the track. One train had to be pushed to the station because it got stuck in between. They had to shut down the Canada Line for the time being. Service wasn’t restored until later afternoon. They had to set up a buss shuttle between Bridgeport and Marine Drive stations to handle big groups of transit users.
The Expo and Millennium line for sky trains seemed to seemed to be working perfectly normal, but they were also very crowded. Having the Canada Line not working, it disrupted a lot of passengers trying to get to work. They tried to push the train back to the previous stop after it came to a sudden stop half way through the stations, but then it ending up colliding with a de-icing train so it pushed the train to the next coming stop (Bridgeport), so the passengers could get off and board a bus to Marine Drive. About 15 centimeters of snow fell over Vancouver, Wednesday night. Heavy rains and warming up temperatures came about too and washed most of the snow away and turned some into ice.
I agree with what is going on with the de-icing trains and that it might be a good thing and will work, but if it’s a really big blizzard and its coming down pretty bad, then the de-icing trains might not do a good job as they might have expected it too do. They might want to put heating lamps around the track so the snow doesn’t stick to it and make it hectic for the passengers trying to get to and from work or even the airport to catch a very very important flight.
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