Transit Costs Project Questions

In June the New York State Legislature passed a bill requiring all subways with at least two cars to have both a conductor and a train operator. Dictating train operations from Albany is legislative overreach. How the MTA runs its trains, obviously, should remain with the MTA and not become a contentious political debate. The governor has yet to call the bill up for signature; thus, she hasn’t had to sign, veto, or amend it yet. But, based on custom, it is likely that she will act by the end of this year.

This got us thinking. What other transit systems have two-person train operations (TPTO)? We looked at more than 400 individual subway and commuter rail lines in 36 cities in Canada, Spain, Korea, Singapore, France, Germany, Sweden, Czech Republic, China, Canada, Japan, Italy, Turkey, Denmark, and the United Kingdom and found that fewer than 6.25% of the systems we looked at currently use TPTO.