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Signaling change
MTA to modernize three Bklyn subway
signal systems in new capital plan
By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
City transit officials are
sending out signals!
The Metropolitan Transportation
Authority will
modernize decades-old
signaling systems serving
sections of three Brooklyn
subway lines as part of a record
breaking five-year capital
plan announced earlier
this week.
Transit honchos committed
to replacing the manual
signaling system — which in
some cases dates back to the
1930s — in favor of a computer
controlled system that
will ensure speedier service
by 2024 as part of the authority’s
$51.5 billion plan
— the costliest in the agency’s
history, according to its
chief.
“This proposed 2020-
2024 Capital Program –
the most ambitious capital
plan in the agency’s history
– builds on the success of
the Subway Action Plan, and
with new tools such as Design
Build and the reorganization
that is underway we’re
certain we can deliver for our
customers,” said the agency’s
chairman and chief executive
officer Patrick Foye.
“This plan expands service,
increases reliability, speeds
up the system, and delivers
the world’s largest ever investment
in accessibility,
for both NYC Transit and
the MTA’s commuter railroads,
and at the end of this
five-year period, New Yorkers
will see a revitalized and
modern system for the 21st
century and beyond.”
The plan will set aside $40
billion for the agency’s Five
Borough transit arm and $7.1
billion specifically to upgrade
the signaling system
of six subway lines across the
city, including the following
five trains going along three
Kings County lines:
• The A and C lines between
Jay Street-MetroTech
in Downtown Brooklyn and
Euclid Avenue in East New
York.
• The G train between
Hoyt-Schermerhorn in
Downtown Brooklyn to
Court Square in Queens.
• The 4 and 5 lines between
from the Bronx, down
through Manhattan and to
Nevins Street on the border
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Fort Greene.
The agency has so far installed
that new system on
the L train and the Queens-
Manhattan 7-train.
To support the new system,
transit workers plan
to build new power substations
and contact rail, and
the signaling upgrade work
will reportedly necessitate
closures, according to the
chief of the agency’s New
York City operation.
“We will need to make
great use, extensive use, of
weekends,” Andy Byford
told the New York Daily
News . “We’re not ruling
out line closures.”
The agency will borrow
half of the money for the
plan — some $25 billion
— through bonds, which it
plans to pay off with revenues
from the state’s planned
congestion pricing and its recently
enacted legislature to
collect a so-called mansion
tax, in addition to the expected
windfall from closing
a sales tax loophole for
online retail platforms like
Amazon.
The plan also relies on
$10.7 billion from Uncle Sam
along with $3 billion each
from the city and state, along
with almost $10 billion of the
agency’s own bonds.
In addition to the signal
modernization, the agency
will also make 66 new subway
people with disabilities and
fast-track four current accessibility
of this year, but the agency’s
spokespeople could not specify
affected in Brooklyn.
Transit officials will also
build new approaches to the
Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
and widen two miles of the
eastbound Belt Parkway.
For the entire city transit
seeks to buy 1,900 subway
cars and 2,400 new buses,
replacing 2,200 of its oldest
f leet by 175.
Some 500 of those buses
will be electric and the
agency wants to spend $1.1
billion to modify its bus depots
for electric bus operations.
The plan still needs approval
which is likely to vote on
it at its next general board
meeting on Sept. 25, before
submitting it for review by a
board of representatives of
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s and
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s
reps from both state legislative
who have another 90 days
to approve it.
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apologized to victims who
have suffered due to sexual
abuse by clergy. And we have
worked to make amends.”
The law firm representing
the newest batch of victims,
Jeff Anderson & Associates,
have filed 262 lawsuits
against the Catholic Diocese
statewide — including 36
lawsuits in Brooklyn, according
to the firm.
The firm’s chief legal
eagle praised the survivors
for their courage in holding
the church accountable for
its failure to protect its most
vulnerable members.
“Survivors are the ones —
through their truth, through
their voice, and now through
this law — that are shining
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The plaintiffs are suing under
the Child Victims Act that
took effect on Aug. 14, and
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abused as minors with a 365-
day “looks back window” to
circumvent statute of limitations
restrictions and file
lawsuits against their abusers
— regardless of when the
abuse occurred.
The law, which was first
passed by the state legislature
and signed by Gov. Andrew
Cuomo on Feb. 14, has
prompted 694 lawsuits across
New York State since it took
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