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Subway upgrade contest from Cuomo to pay $3M to anyone who can fix signal issues
By Vincent Barone
vin.barone@amny.com May 23, 2017
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday lamented that he won’t live to see the day the MTA updates all of its ancient subway signals to increase train capacity.
Though that process as it stands now would take 40 to 50 years to complete, the 59-year-old governor is hedging his bets.
“I will be dead in the next 40 years,” Cuomo said, jokingly, as he announced a new “MTA Genius Transit Challenge” that he hopes will speed things up.
The Challenge will pay $1 million each to any three experts from around the world who can pitch ways to more quickly update MTA track signals; repair or replace aging train cars; and expedite the rollout of more modern amenities to the subway system.
With modern signaling, like Communications Based Train Control, or CBTC, the MTA would be able to run 20% more trains on lines that currently feature signals dating back to the 1930s, according to Cuomo.
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http://www.amny.com/news/subway-upgr...ues-1.13658588