After a long day and missed flights as passengers waited for trains at Denver International Airport, airport officials announced Tuesday night that it hoped to have the lines repaired and back up to full speed Wednesday morning.
“Crews discovered some damage to a small switch plate on the running surface for the train between Concourses B and C,” a DIA statement said. Repairs would be done overnight and inspections of other running surfaces done, “before reopening the train to full capacity.”
All day long, trains were running on one line in the affected area, meaning running trains in alternating directions.
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“I’ve been putting up with this for a lot of years,” said Jim Perkins, who was packed into a train after arriving back in Colorado. “They should have a walkway from B to A and all the way in.”
That concept has been discussed, but the cost would be high. The airport brought in buses to supplement slow train service during peak times from concourse A to B and C. Passengers flying out of A were told they’d be better off walking the sky bridge to their concourse.