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With great expectations at the receiving end, a flatbed truck convoy was loading Wednesday and leave the Kawasaki plant in Lincoln Thursday to offer new metro cars to the capital.
They are the first to send on their way in what's expected to be an order of 2 billion the second largest and second busiest in the nation subway system.
The arrival of the new cars will be a turning point for residents of the District of Columbia and its surroundings, the Washington Post reported, as a public transportation system anchored to the past in technology and the most important changes facing the aesthetics in engineering and industrial design in Metro history of 37 years.
The start of the new Lincoln cars represents years of work for Kawasaki and employees in Lincoln.
Delivering the first rail car for any railway project requires a huge effort by the Kawasaki staff in Japan, New York and Lincoln, plant manager Mike Boyle said in an e-mail must also make our many suppliers and deliver the thousands of parts installed on these cars rails to our Lincoln facility timely logistics and planning to do this are complex and time We are proud of the way our staff responded and appreciate their efforts to meet this first delivery critic Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Washington.
After the construction of the fleet and the construction of a series of car confirmatory tests in Washington, it will be very satisfying to see these cars manufactured Lincoln begin to carry passengers WMATA in the capital of our country at the end of 2014.
In an overview of the delivery released earlier this fall, the Post reported Attention passengers The 70 eventually died.
No more brown No more orange and yellow colors and circus, Metro General Manager Richard Sarles said that we are not only create a very reliable car, a technologically advanced car, but we're also telling customers what is new this is something completely different than you had is something exciting.
The Metro system sees the biggest leap in the evolution of its trains from the open subway, as the agency said goodbye, very gradually, the familiar cars, matt aluminum striped chocolate -Zone DC commuters have been known the disco era.
Four new cars, the first 748 to be delivered by 2018, represent a move forward which should cost about $ 2 billion, told Metro.
officials subway sounded a bit like car dealerships to describe the new cars - enhanced security features, better seating, plus standing room, displays digital information, improved audio systems, interior color palette blue and stained and dirty carpet or poles blocking the walkways You'll love this car, Sarles said.
A break with our past, said Rodrigo Bitar, deputy general manager for infrastructure and engineering services in Metro.
For decades, the maintenance of mechanical compatibility to limit technological improvements in each new batch ordered from other manufacturers and keep stylistically consistent cars meant generally stick with interior and designed visual design when bell bottoms were and Gerald Ford was president.
When you are constantly trying to match back farther you get from the original, it becomes increasingly difficult, said Sarles.
The Kawasaki 748 cars Lincoln 7000 series, as it is called will be half of the rail fleet underground when the latter arrives in 2018 and nearly 400 classic cars were removed, spokesman Dan Stessel Metro said the 7000 series will run the cars in their own trains, with the exception of vintage cars in the system and in the future, such as Metro acquires more cars, they will be designed to be compatible with the 7000 series.
The four new cars will be tested for weeks on subway tracks after hours to determine whether design adjustments are necessary, Stessel said, will begin mass production cars 7000 Series could carry passengers by the end of next year, and 364 of them are projected to be in by October 2016 service.
The floors without carpet will be smooth and black, speckled red seats, white and blue, less what the Post called boring arms out, won t feel nearly as cramped.
The doors won t be as stubborn as those that irritate riders today, the Post reported vertical posts and take up the almost all rear seats ceiling so that passengers won t to for horizontal air bars .
A very comfortable, very comfortable, very friendly transport system, Bitar planned.
Washingtonians got a glimpse of new cars last year, when Japan built models were displayed publicly.
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