Motormen working the Brooklyn-Manhattan line will remain on board as a token gesture to humanity’s fading relevance, and as way of placating Luddites worried about some sinister runaway HAL train making a break for New Jersey. The “Communications Based Train Control” [CBTC] will kick in tomorrow, (theoretically) enabling NYC Transit to relieve overcrowding by running trains closer together than the current signal system allows.

the first step to destroy the MTA unions. watch service improve overnight. the rest of the nyc subway still runs on a control system that is 100 years old.

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