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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Tue Sep 15 18:09:13 2009, in response to Re: Full CBTC Shut Down Last Night, posted by Hank Eisenstein on Tue Sep 15 15:12:03 2009. Total wast of money to reduce crew size by halfCBTC is not required to remove the C/R from the train. All NYCT needs are trains and stations that make one person operation possible. The big hurdle is labor negotiations. NYCT has been particularly more inept in this endeavor than other systems that removed the C/R from their trains. Most other systems had the C/R operate from the last car. This eliminated NYCT's 300 foot straw man. Paris went one step further, they moved the C/R into the front cab with the T/O. NYCT implemented door enablers. This is a management admission that two people are required to operate doors because one person cannot be trusted to decide which side should open. ...implement semi-automatic operation like modern systems in most of the world. The only service benefit from semi-automatic operation is increased service levels through operating consistency. However, there are many inexpensive techniques to achieve operational consistency with manual operation. Other systems have achieved higher service levels than NYCT using these techniques. Semi-automatic operation can be a stepping stone to fully automatic operation. IF ZPTO is NYCT's goal, then OPTO and semi-automatic operation is not an easy first step. They should go for the goal. |
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