Driving blind: NYC subways steered by 1930s tech, paper maps and a lot of hope

DC's Metro (WMATA) has had a bunch of problems, now faces pretty big budget issues.

For a couple years there was a ismetroonfire.com website. https://www.reddit.com/r/dcmetrohero/comments/14w2t53/ismetr...

But metro really turned things around, has done a ton of track & electrical work. And it's wild to hear what NYC is dealing with! Feeling much better. And sorry for NYC!

Ideally we'd be much better at power electronics & have great power semiconductors that could update a lot of this stuff, make it much better. I keep wanting to believe in leapfrog wins, when you wait long enough that upgrading or building is better. Like with cellular, where there have been many late mover advantages.

I mean, also rails.