It’ll be decades before all of the trains from the ‘70s and ‘80s (pre-recorded-announcement systems) are replaced and all trains have recorded announcements and

It’ll be decades before all of the trains from the ‘70s and ‘80s (pre-recorded-announcement systems) are replaced and all trains have recorded announcements and decent speakers. Heck, we’re only just now starting to replace the last of the trains (R32s) from the early 1960s (the trains that were supposed to replace them ended up instead replacing some ‘70s trains (R44s) that turned out to have a construction or design flaw that caused them to fail earlier than expected). And the agency is basically bankrupt. Decades to next upgrade the crappy waste of money digital displays seems to me to be a reasonable conjecture.