THE HOMELAND | Manizales
The “bad luck“was the reason why Manizales aerial cable service was interrupted twice in a weekaccording to him manager of this means of public transport, Andrés Felipe Ortiz Álvarez.
Why do you blame luck for the break? “LLast week we had two stops due to bad fortune: some Turkey buzzards they crossed the main network and caused damage,” he told LA PATRIA.
This crossing of the birds with the system affected the grid major of electrical flow of the aerial cable, which reaches the city from Marmato. This led to resorting to the secondary line, which arises from the Peralonso neighborhood.
“At the moment we work with the secondary network. The damage has already been fixed. We are solving this problem with some protectors to prevent the birds from colliding with the net or settling on it,” Ortiz announced.
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Andrés Felipe Ortiz Álvarez, manager of the Manizales Aerial Cable Association.
How was operation affected?
The manager of the Manizales Aerial Cable Associationappointed in January of this year by the mayor Jorge Eduardo RojasClarified that When a bird collides with the nets it causes a download electric which damages the inside of the system. Ortiz added that repairs to this damage take minutes.
“The internal electrical circuits have protection systems. When these discharges occur, those locks are changed,” he explained.
Aerial cable service was interrupted twice last week.
Investment in protectors
The investment to shield networks of the Manizales aerial cable with protectors that prevent interruptions due to collisions with birds is $75 millionreported the manager of the transportation system.
Previous interruptions
Although Ortiz qualifies the interruptions caused by buzzards as the most important service stops in 2024, he recognizes that the aerial cable had already started 2024 with a damaged fuse that forced operators to use the backup line . “The replacement part took a few days to arrive and be installed,” he commented.
Once this problem was repaired, he says, another problem arose with the provision of the service: “When we went from the secondary network to the main one, we had to do some tests and there were occasional stops [del funcionamiento]”.
Last Thursday the Manizales Aerial Cable Association reported that an electrical overload forced the service to be suspended.
He defended his management
Despite the setbacks described, the manager of the Aerial Cable Association defended that “this entire year the operation has been above 99%.”
The official defined the hours of service and the minutes of interruptions as the factors that give the operational figure.
He also maintained that the aerial cable operated without problems with the main network in May and at the beginning of June.
“We don’t have any major damage to the system, which has performed well this year. Everything has been controlled. Sometimes storms during the rainy season generate interruptions,” he stressed.
Operation per month
This has been the monthly operational percentage for 2024 of this means of transport, according to the Cable Aéreo Association:
January: 99.65%
February: 97.99%
March: 99.78%
April: 98.30%
May: 99.80%
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