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Hopefully this isn't dupe, but interesting:

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I know we talked about the possibility of the NY subway shutting down each night, but this is a bit different, this is an interesting approach to the problem, shutting down whole lines for X period of time.  I think it is something worth talking about, I would rather take the pain now and have it fixed in a couple of years, rather than a decade or more. Among other things, the transit system is famous for long term projects that disappear when some financial dip happens or some politician decides that they have some boondoggle someplace elsewhere in the state that needs feeding. By doing it more short term, kind of makes the risk of that happening a lot less, better than having the system limp along on bandaids for decades or more. 

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People should realize that the infrastructure isnt the cause of most delays.  If you want to improve service GET RID of the homeless population that suddenly become sick customers or spill one type of their bodily fluids in the cars.  It takes time to wait for EMS to respond and it takes time to isolate a dirty car.  It also takes time to clean that car when it gets to a terminal.  Guess what happens to all the trains behind 

The NYC subway system has the best signal system in the country  It was designed before WWII but it works and is not the problem.  There are way more problems with the state of the art technology on the L train.  We have had positive train control since 1933.  People act like its something new.  Ask the people that run the system where the problems are not the NY Times.    If we can find a vendor to deliver reliable subway cars the equipment upgrades would have been half done already  Bombardier R179's are junk and they are out of the bidding for any additional cars.

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