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If the MTA gets its way, transit officials would be able to control the trains and signals running in Brooklyn from a central operation center in Midtown Manhattan. ‘I do think updating our signaling to [communications-based train control] so you can run trains more frequently is really another very good thing,’ NYU urban planning professor Eric Goldwyn said. ‘From a capacity point of view, you can really get more people in there if you can run the trains more frequently. And the thing with running service more frequently is that it attracts more riders because it’s more useful.’