MTA starts $1.9 billion resignalling, track replacement work on A/C lines in Brooklyn and Queens

The MTA has begun work on a $1.9 billion effort to replace nearly century-old signals on Brooklyn and Queens' A and C lines, the agency announced on Thursday. The project will see the MTA install modern Communications Based Train Control (CBTC) signals along the A and C trains’ Fulton and Liberty Avenue lines between High Street in Brooklyn and Ozone Park-Lefferts Blvd in Queens. The new hardware will replace 1930s-era analog signals, which allow train dispatchers to track their locations and speeds, and will allow for trains to run closer together and, by extension, at faster speeds. Taken together with track replacements, the undertaking is the largest signal and track replacement in MTA history, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul's office. The resignaling and laying of new tracks is effectively entirely funded by revenue from the state's congestion pricing program, which charges drivers a base $9 toll to enter Manhattan below 60th Street. “Congestion pricing keeps delivering wins fo