Posted November 16th, 2020 for Mitsubishi Electric Public Systems FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 3385 TOKYO, November 17, 2020 - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has been officially qualified as a supplier of communications-based train control (CBTC) systems by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority s (MTA) New York City Transit (NYCT) after successfully testing and verifying the interoperability of the company s solution with NYCT s existing CBTC systems. NYCT plans to install CBTC systems on subway lines by collaborating with multiple CBTC suppliers. Mitsubishi Electric is the third CBTC supplier qualified by NYCT to participate in the modernization of the NYCT s signaling system. To be qualified, Mitsubishi Electric had to verify that its solution meets all of NYCT s requirements for functionality and safety. The company is now permitted to bid on any of NYCT s upcoming CBTC projects. Qualification is also expected
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Surplus Extraction
citizen voice, in which local groups can use litigation to extract the social surplus generated by infrastructure construction. I’d like to go more deeply into what this theory is and what it implies.
What is surplus?
Normally, a competitive market has no surplus. The owner of a restaurant, the developer of a building in an unconstrained area like suburban Texas, the seller of cloth masks on Etsy, the freelance web developer – none of them is making a killing. People enter the market until profits are driven down to levels low enough to essentially be the owner-manager’s wage. Companies can only make a large profit if they operate at enormous scale, which takes a long time to develop – the profit margins on a single Walmart or Carrefour or Lidl are small, but the profit margins on 10,000 stores add up to a couple billion dollars a year.
Ridership patterns could change once we’ve achieved herd immunity.
MTA
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) [Friday] announced service changes on the line to accommodate track and switch replacements along the line beginning at the end of the month. Over the course of 15 weeks, New York City Transit will replace about a mile of track and switches between 137 St-City College in Upper Manhattan and Van Cortlandt Park-242 St in the Bronx. The track and switches have reached the end of their useful life and need replacements. Tracks maintaining a state of good repair is crucial to ensuring the line does not experience track-related delays. Switches allow
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