More than four Citybanan escalators in Stockholm closed

On Friday, Citybanan escalators were closed for two weeks. The commuter train did not stop at the station, but the passengers took the subway to Odenplan to jump on the commuter train north

Now, SL was informed 10 days after closing that travelers can leave Stockholm. Early Thursday and last Sunday, the station will open, SL announces.

– We believe that the daily life of travelers becomes considerably easier with the station open, even if all the escalators do not work, "said Caroline Ottosson, CEO of SL.

However, despite the fact that the station opens all escalators have not yet been repaired. How long it will take before all the escalators will work again, no one knows – the escalators will be repaired on a regular basis.

SL hired an external party to monitor the escalators and investigate what is needed to reopen the stations.

The journal has not yet presented its results. SL also has no answers when it's over. The only conclusions drawn up here are that you should be able to open the stations – even if the escalators do not roll.

According to SL, traffic management at the Stockholm County Council and the Swedish Transport Administration caused the failure of a wheel. The wheel was sealed in a closed plastic box and, according to the supplier, it should never be replaced during the expected life of the 30 year old escalator.

So it's still unclear how the escalator could start to shine – and how many people light up so many escalators could have a 29-year shorter life than promised and what was expected [19659002] – The conclusion is that with the restrictions we can open Stockholm station is a city where everything will go as it should with the permits we need, "says Per Hallberg at the press office of the traffic administration.

What conditions then?

– Permission to open the facility itself. This is with the evacuation plan and with certainty, "says Per Hallberg.

A total of 17 over 50 escalators will continue to be closed and will need to be repaired before being opened. The majority of broken escalators are heading to the tunnel squares and at the southern end of the perlong up to Sergels and Vasagatan Square.

Among the one-year escalators of the Odenplan suburban train station and the city of Stockholm, 20 of the 71 new escalators of the Otis supplier introduced mistakes similar to those of the Stockholm escalator. There an escalator stopped in the direction up and shone instead back. A person was injured in the accident

The twenty escalators broken will be repaired regularly. Three of them are on Odenplan, and today they are open to pedestrians wishing to walk for a stationary escalator.

SL also announces that reinforcement traffic in the subway and on the red metro line will remain even when Stockholm City opens again because the capacity of the city of Stockholm is affected by the fact that there is fewer escalators in use.

Otis regretted it in a press release saying that he is working to deal with damaged escalators.

"We deeply regret the inconvenience this entails, but safety is always our top priority.We are working to resolve the situation as soon as possible.", The company writes in a press release.

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