Posted Jan 14, 2020, 12:19 PM
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West End & Riverside
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Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: UWS NYC, Dörfli Zürich
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MTA to bring modern signal system — and faster, more reliable commutes — to entirety of E line by 2025
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The MTA on Monday moved forward with plans to add modern signaling technology to a key segment of the subway — and announced that the entirety of the E line will receive the upgrades by January 2025.
The news came as the agency awarded a $246 million, five-year contract to install the tech, called communications-based train control, or CBTC, to the A, C and E lines from the 59th St.-Columbus Circle station to the High St. stop in Brooklyn.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials also plan to complete a separate project to modernize the signal system on the E, F, M and R lines in Queens and Manhattan by March 2021.
By the time both segments get the upgrades, the E will become the subway’s third line to be equipped with CBTC from end to end.
MTA officials have hailed CBTC as the saving grace for New York City’s unreliable subways, as the tech allows for trains to run closer together and is more reliable than the arcane system the agency currently uses to direct train traffic.
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Continued: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...yki-story.html
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