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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Fri Jan 24 11:23:15 2020, in response to Re: Sad News: Byford resigns for real., posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jan 24 10:46:48 2020. I am old enough to remember. I am retired and I operated the equipment in their worst state being hired in late 1979.While David Gunn did turn the subways around by getting the subway cars into a state of good repair, he also permanently removed the Grumman 870 buses. He had more power than Byford ever did because if Andy wanted to do something like that he would have needed the blessings from the governor and MTA chairman and board. Furthermore Gunn increased the beauracracy by getting rid of zone trainmasters and bought on line superintendents who fell all over each other because there was one for each line. Dispatchers became afraid to make decisions because they The "game" they were always second guessed by the superintendent. And at gap stations, they would get into the ear of those dispatchers "if my line has a delay in service, reroute a train from another line, but if another line has a delay in service, don't reroute any of MY trains. I am not lying. More than 1 dispatcher friends have told me this. So in conclusion, all David Gunn did was fix up the subway cats and increase the beauracracy and payroll. No more train dispatchers being in charge of the railroad, making decisions, and telling the lower paid Zone Trainmaster what he did. |
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