Posted
6/21/2007 05:24:00 PM
by Douglas
If your job is to make sure the train you're driving is going the right way down the right tracks and for some reason, you mess that up, do you get to keep your job? Not in this
case.The Metropolitan Transit Authority has fired the operator of a light rail train involved in a May 9 incident in which her train crossed over to the opposite track, creating the potential for a wrong-way collision.
Metro spokeswoman Raequel Roberts said La Shonda Gordon, 37, was let go Friday. She was hired Feb. 23, and at the time of the incident had been at the controls less than three weeks.
Example number 5,847: Houston light rail, what a train wreck.