User talk:IonicPixels

January 2023
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 * Hello, The change I made earlier to revert the top picture to a Hawker Siddeley Car, rather than a CRRC Car, was to not "promote" those cars. As I mentioned, they are inferior, this statement is not an opinion. TheBostonGlobe recently released an article telling how CRRC Massachusetts have not been safely constructing these cars, and how they are around $200 Million cheaper than what the cost should be. The article can be found here: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/01/04/opinion/factory-thats-building-new-mbta-rail-cars-is-hot-mess/. I am someone who is very much into the MBTA system, and have been observing it for a while. The MBTA themselves seem to refuse the poor quality of the CRRC trains, and refuse to run the Hawkers, which have proved to be more reliable. The CRRC Trains have several kinds of issues, both major and minor, whereas the Hawkers only had the issues the MBTA let them have. Showing these trains on the main page really seems like promoting them in a way, and could contribute to the MBTA wanting the neglect the issues. In the past 3 weeks, the CRRC trains have been having issues, both major and minor, non-stop. Headway times are significantly higher than usual, and there have been times were as much as 5 total trains were running the whole line at Rush Hour, a time where the full 13 would be very helpful. There was an issue on December 10th, 2022, that shut down the whole line for around 5 hours, and more recently, the MBTA had to pull all the CRRC trains as they have found a manufacturing error which could have potentially damaged the Axle of the train, likely leading to a derailment. The MBTA is still inspecting the cars (from what it seems) and yet they still run the CRRC trains. My friend uploaded 2 of my videos and a quote from me (with permission) to twitter, directly tagging the MBTA. The videos were recorded Sunday, January 1st, 2023, and the trains are having slight issues. The link to the post is here: https://twitter.com/frankie74229599/status/1609722598123765762?s=46&t=cr-foZayKqVV0H5lMdeMXg. I will send the rest of the footage if you request to see it, but the small edit I made to the top of the page was not for testing. IonicPixels (talk) 03:57, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Images on Wikipedia should be accurate. That means articles about active rail services should generally show the rolling stock currently used. They are not to promote your opinions of what rolling stock the agency should be using - see Neutral point of view. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 04:43, 6 January 2023 (UTC)