Outside study finds ‘critical flaws’ in MTA’s $90M bus command boondoggleBy David Meyer
May 24, 2022
The MTA’s $90 million boondoggle bus dispatch war-room has “critical design and execution flaws” that could render it useless in the event of an emergency power outage, The Post has learned.
An outside engineering assessment obtained by The Post found several “single points of failure” in the back-up power system of the NASA-like command center, which has sat mostly empty for three years since former Transit President Andy Byford and other bigwigs held a celebratory ribbon-cutting there in June 2019.
Several features of the building’s back-up generators could shut down the MTA’s entire bus dispatching operation were they to fail, according to the report by energy consultant SKAE Power Solutions.
Such a catastrophe is not improbable — and one actually occurred at the “old” bus command center when ConEdison experienced a city-wide power surge last summer, MTA internal documents show.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/05/24/study-finds-critical-flaws-in-mtas-90m-bus-command-center/
