by Emma Davey If you’ve visited the Greenpoint Avenue station lately, you might have noticed some weird wire contraption running across the top of the track. Is it an art installation? A space for advertising? Just one of the MTA’s myriad quirks?
Greenpointers reached out to the MTA to figure out what was going on, and the answer was fairly straightforward.
“Those pieces are for CBTC installation – they’ll hold the necessary cables for the project,” an MTA…
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I have been curious about this for days, minimum. Now I know. Thank you!
Why doesn’t the 7 line have this ? Why doesn’t the E line have this for the CBTC ?