[Charlotte's Light Rail: Lynx Blue Line]

29 minutes ago, Brendv7 said:

Light rail having an issue this morning. Both North and Southbound trains I saw crawling at the pace of someone walking. Long lines of cars at intersections. At least three CATs trucks in the parking lot across from All American at the Bland St. stop checking on something 

Looked like the crossing gates weren't coming down, starting around East/West.

[Charlotte's Light Rail: Lynx Blue Line]

They almost made it 12 hours without a service disruption.

 

Also on Tuesday, the 6:13am from South/485 almost made it to Tyvola before the headlights died. Everyone had to get off at Woodlawn in the dark, near-80 degree weather and wait for the next train, which was 15 minutes behind.

[Charlotte's Light Rail: Lynx Blue Line]

Day Two: I saw the inspector give a man a citation today. He bought a one-way ticket and thought it was good in both directions. It took the inspector several minutes to complete the citation, so the guy actually missed his stop at Tyvola and had to take a northbound train back. I asked the inspector how many citations he had given out today and he answered "more than 1, less than 100".

I was on the same exact train. It looked like the fare inspector was training one of the new safety guys on all the possible "excuses" people would have and what to look for.

[Charlotte's Light Rail: Lynx Blue Line]

The station that seems the least promising is the Stonewall station. Unless you're going to or coming from the Westin, there's no need to use that station...The Stonewall station almost seems unnecessary. Perhaps ...I'll be proven wrong.

As a Duke Energy employee, I'd like to disagree. I've taken the LRT daily since November 26th and I use the Stonewall station. It's 2 1/2 blocks to my building and I've seen 4-10 other people using that each time I've gotten on or off.