flacaltenn
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You think NYC is going to have a city full of generators?
For the traffic lights and subway --- Absolutely they should... It's a tangible public safety risk that they are taking..
Maybe I'm not talking to people who love to know how things work, but that's my burden and profession.. And when things are MAINTAINED and UPDATED properly and initially designed properly, it's a safer, actually cheaper world...
For example, the SAME NYCity Subway system runs all it's "emergency operations" thru an antiquating wireless that needed updating.. Literally was being eaten by rats... So -- how did they get a BETTER SYSTEM that INCLUDED wireless services for all their YouTube hungry passengers?? They turned to CAPITALISM and the free market expertise and FUNDING to make it happen.. Did not cost the taxpayers a cent...
Engineering against all odds, or how NYC’s subway will get wireless in the tunnels – TechCrunch
This past week, I explored the challenges of what appears at first glance to be a relatively simple problem: how do you get wireless service in New York City subway tunnels? Cellular technology is hardly novel, and transit systems throughout the world have been able to modernize in some cases more than a decade ago.
While riders may desperately want their YouTube videos underground, the real value of such a system is for the business operations of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (the MTA, which operates the NYC subway among other commuter rail and bus systems). Ticketing systems, arrival time indicators, emergency services, and other critical services are all run through this wireless system.
There is in fact a startup working on the problem, Transit Wireless. The company was formed in 2005 to respond to a request for proposals from the MTA and filled with veteran telecom executives. The authority rewarded the contract to Transit Wireless, which now holds a 27-year license to operate cellular service in the subway system.
William Bayne, the CEO of the company, explained that an important component of the contract was that the company couldn’t rely on taxpayer funding. “Our license requires us to design, build, own, operate, and finance the network,” he said. Transit Wireless raised its own equity capital to cover the costs of deploying the system, and generates revenues as the service provider over the life of the license. In fact, MTA receives a stream of revenue from Transit Wireless as well.
When you fiends flirting with centralized mgt and control of huge multiple sector of this economy like health care, energy, banking you KILL the vitality of innovation and risk-taking that protects the taxpayers. Companies like Transit Wireless would cease to exist if the municipalities are AFRAID of free markets and that evil word "privatization"....
We keep repeating "you'll kill innovation and private investment" but most of you don't know what that is apparently...
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