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Re: TA is obsessed with CBTC, and ''New'' tech for no reason. |
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Posted by Jeff H. on Fri Feb 29 19:58:58 2008, in response to Re: TA is obsessed with CBTC, and ''New'' tech for no reason., posted by trainsarefun on Fri Feb 29 08:24:18 2008. In my opinion, the reasons for pursuing CBTC had a lot to dowith internal politics and fiefdoms. I don't want to get into names and specifics, but there was a certain attitude that "new tech" people were going to displace "old-tech people". CBTC is decidely new-tech, the more conservative technologies, while they would have been newER tech to NYCT, were not bleeding-edge. From an external standpoint, the TA established certain objectives and milestones, all of which, I believe, were a failure. The idea was to anticipate the future direction of railway signaling, and to leap-frog to the forefront and take a leadership role in shaping the application of CBTC to transit signaling. Instead, despite the weight and influence of the TA and other MTA entities, NYCT wound up with an orphan system which is not the de-facto industry standard and which doesn't put the TA in any stronger position going forward with future procurement. Despire all the precautions to the contrary, they got themselves locked into a single-vendor propietary system. In the end, the agency got shafted the same as with metrocard. |
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