KTRH-740 reports on the ongoing concerns over stray current along the METRO rail line:
At a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars, Metro has already fixed damage along the line thought to have been caused by electrical current eating away at metal bridge anchors around the tracks.
Engineers are still performing assessments, but a February report from Siemens Transportation Systems, the company that built the line, says no damage has been caused to “either utility lines or Metro facilities due to stray current.”
Metro disagrees. The transportation authority says other experts have found evidence of electrical leakage at spots along the line and have suggested more tests be done.
Local METRO watchdog Tom Bazan has experienced great difficulty getting METRO to comply with his numerous public information requests on the stray-current issue, but it doesn’t seem to be a problem that’s going away anytime soon, especially if METRO and the contractor are now squabbling over the extent of the problem.
