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Re: TA is obsessed with CBTC, and ''New'' tech for no reason. |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Fri Feb 29 20:11:44 2008, in response to Re: TA is obsessed with CBTC, and ''New'' tech for no reason., posted by Jeff H. on Fri Feb 29 19:58:58 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." There are new tech vs old-tech tensions in most organizations. Yur observation is correct but not limited to transit. "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." Metrocard is a runaway success and is more successful than any other farecard story in the history of US transit. MetroCard isn't an orphan; everyone else is the orphan. As to CBTC's supposed failures, we only have you here to tell about them, and you're not exactly impartial. |
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