The authority is replacing the roughly 90-year-old train signals on the A and C line with modern technology.
The Metropolitan Transit Authority is kicking off a six-year project to replace the A and C line’s roughly 90-year-old train signals. The $1.9 billion project will install communications-based train control technology that will allow subway trains to operate faster and more reliably.
“The signals used by train operators and dispatchers to direct trains on the A and C trains date back to the 1930s. The MTA workers who manage those systems often have no way to know a train's exact position,” Ramsey Khalifeh writes for Gothamist.
The MTA has already added modern signals to several of its lines, which are some of the most reliable in the city.
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