The largest signal and track replacement project in MTA history will modernize equipment that dates back to the 1930s.
New York transit officials have launched a $1.9 billion project to replace nearly century-old subway signals and aging tracks in Brooklyn and Queens, using revenue from Manhattan’s controversial congestion pricing program to help finance the largest overhaul of its kind in Metropolitan Transportation Authority history.
The six-year project will modernize 42 miles of track along the A and C subway lines, replacing signals installed in the 1930s with computerized technology designed to allow trains to run faster, closer together, and more frequently without compromising safety…