Nope. The MTA was already doing better last few years (thanks train daddy). Relying on fares is stupid anyways. There were lots of pointless station improvemen

Nope. The MTA was already doing better last few years (thanks train daddy). Relying on fares is stupid anyways. There were lots of pointless station improvements as others said. As to the costs, union, and automation, I would explicitly trade a huge increase in new line capital costs for driverless or whatever trains, and get all those drivers retrained to contribute to the capital costs. In general, I think workers should be incentivized to assist with their jobs' obselesence, and this will make everything smoother and easier. Regardless, that is a long way off. We need new signals far more than we need driverless trains, and there is no labor-automation conflict there.