I've spent just under 30 years working and managing parts of the subway system and Long Island Rail Road. Old train cars like the 40-year-old models we currently have on the 1, 3, 6, S, B, D, N, and W lines slow service, breaking down six times as frequently as newer models. Buying 1,500 new subway cars means a generational upgrade to our fleet.
The new Capital Plan will also speed service by replacing conventional signals that are nearly a century old with a modern Communications Based Train Control system. This technology transformed service on the L and 7 lines, enabling 2-3 minute headways and on-time performance rates of over 90%.
Keeping the electric power that trains run on flowing is critical to service. This plan modernizes virtually all of these essential facilities. Likewise for, for our aging train yards and bus depots, which are hives of daily activity where thousands of Transit employees work to maintain more than 6,000 subway cars and 6,500 buses.
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