Disclaimer: I got through 1/2 of the article before I got fed up.

This article reminds me of whenever you assign a word minimum to an assignment back in High School, where you add in the same details over and over, just worded slightly differently and maybe you throw in a tiny new detail to make it justifiable enough.

The SparkNotes: - MTA doesn't have arrival times because the current technology is decentralized(-ish). - The MTA tried to do an implementation of a more centralized technology, but didn't actually define it well enough, and wanted redundancy with the old signals, and it's a junbled mess (ATS-A). - In an effort to _not_ do that again, they are clearly defining what they want to contractors. - It's already going badly, with your standard sprinkling of governmental cost overruns and budget inflation. It's the MTA's fault as "The Trains Must Run" means that contractors can't actually change or test anything because the MTA won't let them near the track.

That's it, the whole article.

There were tidbits of interesting anecdotes, but nothing substantive or adding enough details to the story to actually make me have any interest.