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TA is obsessed with CBTC, and "New" tech for no reason.

Posted by JournalSquare-K-Car on Thu Feb 28 22:08:34 2008

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I have a lot of gripes with the TA's little (money wasting) obsession.

One is the lies. CBTC does not SAVE money, proper, and efficient MANAGMENT does.

The "effcicency" gained by CBTC is BS. That efficiency can be acquired by allowing KEY BYs instead of holding a train 600, even 1200 + ft behind the leader.

Not only did the original IRT not have timers, it didn't even have block signalling on the local tracks, and i do not know of any big rear endings in those times. I am not saying to revert to tracks without block signals, but why the added complexity of CBTC? It adds complexity to the tracks, AND trains with the equiptment.
Also, WHY are there timers on straight aways, and in the TUBES which could handle 60+MPH?

The newark city subway was run by PCCs without cabsignalling, and the service was FAR better than the current one(no wrecks either). So if this CBTC signalling will have the same effect on new york's system as cabsignalling did on newark's little one, then nobody needs it, cause it falls short. By the way, some of you may know this, but current service on th L, and other lines is worse than it used to be, even with the CBTC.

Therefore, this is NOT progress. Progress CAN be achieved, and can be a good thing ( better medicines, new fuels, energy storage, stabilizing the world, etc. ), but in the case of transit, it seems to be REGRESS, especially in recent times. SMEE WAS real progress from AMUE(SMEE is good enough, so it should become a permanent standard for the NYC subway, we don't need to "progress" from it. We have bigger problems to solve), P-wire wasn't progress; it was complex BS that took the functions of SMEE, and put in more steps and electronics, and the AC propulsion is really a gimmick. New cars are heavier, less efficient, and take more kilowatts in than the previous ones.

We should progress in expanding transit. Take the hundreds of millions from "signal enhancements", and put it to expansion. Instead of reefing old cars because the TA has nothing better to do, it should build new lines, and buy new cars for NEW lines(everyone is happy, TA has its new cars, we have new lines, and even the fishies are happy, since they don't like Asbestos, they like real reefs anyways). Believe me, a properly run agency would never neglect cars, and dump entire car bodies into the ocean so willingly, and in such a high volume.

Also, it isn't nice to have a rusty subway car wash up onto a beach like a whale. Yes, those redbirds can move around, even under water. The bodies only weigh about 15 tons, so strong currents can actually drag them over the ocean floor. On a side note, i wonder what whales think of the redbirds, and the recently dumped brightliners. I know they are disappointed in the human race, however.

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