[ClearCase_guy]

Lot of transportation issues in this country these last few years. But who expected anything more from Mayor Pete?

[rdl6989]

Good point.

[Grampa Dave]

Lot of transportation issues in this country these last few years.

Butt, who expected anything more from Mayor Pete?

[Christopher]

Businesses love cutting back on maintenance, because maintenance isn't a profit center.

I'll hazard a guess that most airline maintenance departments are understaffed because they most likely haven't been replacing retirees. So instead of hiring or paying overtime (those both cost money), they simply stretch maintenance intervals, spend less time doing inspections, ignore minor deficiencies, put band-aids on major issues instead of addressing the problem correctly, etc.

I've been in industrial maintenance pretty much my entire working life, and as you meet people from other industries, you learn that it's the same everywhere. Food production, refineries, chemical plants, manufacturing, transportation, so on and so forth.

They expect people to keep things running by doing less than the bare minimum.

How many industrial and transportation mishaps have we seen the last few years now? Everyone is trying to do way more with way less, which only works until it doesnt.