The C train returns tomorrow, running at 10 minute intervals at peak times. The A moves to 5 minute intervals. The V goes back to where it's supposed to be. That's a bit short of normal peak operation, but close.

Yeah, I'm as shocked as the rest of you.

First off, it appears that I was in error in some of my original reporting. I thought that the interlocking control which was destroyed was the Canal St one, but instead it was the Chambers St interlocking which bought it. Please refer to this handy graphic I pulled from nycsubway.org, and updated a bit:

On the right, you can see the switches after Canal Street which govern the C's hop from the local to express tracks. The interlocking for those is actually fine. Now, have a look at that center track in black just north of Chambers St. It's that section of track that had its controlling 'brain' destroyed. The workers have bypassed the switch controls to allow trains to run straight through, turning the center track into dead steel.

The 3-5 year timeline to completely repair the signaling in that area and return that center track to the infrequent use it normally sees, stands.

The New York Times, as usual, is on top of the situation. I think there was a whole lot of political anger floating around over this. I'm overjoyed that mass (or mass-er) media is now covering the horrible underfunding the MTA has been working under.

Getting the rest of my urban engineering geekery out of the way, I'm totally going to see the new Robert Moses musical, Boozy. According to Curbed, it's got live fornicating rabbits, "ridiculous choreography," Benito Mussolini, and dancing Freemasons. This whole shebang is being put on by the same people who did the A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant which I unfortunately didn't attend. I won't make that mistake again.