Ten-car subway trains currently have a conductor in the middle and an operator at the front, but there are five-car trains, like the Times Square Shuttle and the G at times, that only have an operator.
A bill on the governor’s desk would mandate all trains have two-person crews.
“All over the world where they run subways, the direction everyone is going in is either one operator or zero operators,” said Eric Goldwyn, an associate professor at NYU’s Marron Institute of Urban Management. “And here in New York, we’re looking at a law that would sort of enshrine two operators on any train with two cars or more.”…