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Re: $787K Study Seeks to Find Ways to Encourage Subway Riders to Ride LIRR and MNRR |
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Posted by sloth on Mon Apr 9 13:14:07 2018, in response to Re: $787K Study Seeks to Find Ways to Encourage Subway Riders to Ride LIRR and MNRR, posted by sloth on Mon Apr 9 09:22:53 2018. I'm specifically thinking of all the drill moves that are performed in locations with manually operated switches. You don't want engineers shoving blind, or changing ends multiple times in a move, or running back 12 cars to get a switch. Not efficient in the least, nor is stationing a drill crew in a place like Far Rockaway where that move only happens four times a day. The current methods of door operation also require an assistant conductor. Technology may eventually change all this, but there is also a social cost of replacing good jobs with McJobs or no jobs that the bean counters do not include in their bean count. A computer can be programmed to count beans as well. Perhaps I should counsel young assistant conductors to find a good expressway off ramp and write a snappy slogan on a cardboard sign instead. |
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