Daily News | SEPTA’s new rail cars plagued by faulty wiring, repeated delays — and a federal investigation
that include a battery explosion, a derailment, loose brake bolts and faulty wiring that caused an electrical current to arc and strike a nearby train.
Among the problems, Richards and Deon said, were “repeated failures of watertightness tests,” faulty interior panels, wiring issues, repeated brake test failures and “unsafe emergency exit windows.” The first two cars, earmarked as test vehicles for SEPTA, are currently in Los Angeles, after being shipped recently from Tangshan, China, where they were initially assembled and tested, agency spokesman Andrew Busch said. The cars were disassembled before shipping.
For the remaining 43 cars, the stainless steel shells will come from CRRC’s China plant and then be fully outfitted and assembled at the Springfield factory of CRRC MA, which also is building the MBTA cars.. In a memo, the office of the inspector general said it was looking at the Federal Transit Administration’s oversight of SEPTA’s compliance — and its certification that CRRC is compliant — with “Buy America” requirements for procurement of railroad rolling stock.
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