The MTA shelled $3 million more than planned for signaling work on elevated subway tracks that could have been cheaper if transit officials just communicated better beforehand, according to a probe by the agency's Office of Inspector General.
project had already started and despite officials at the Authority knowing for years that the old wire carriers were falling apart.
The mixup happened during a $25 million signal equipment overhaul on the Jamaica Avenue line, which carries J, M, and Z trains on elevated tracks in northeastern Brooklyn and into Queens. Their mislabelling the incident as unforeseen allowed MTA officials to avoid having to write up a document about what their lessons learned were from the snafu and the steps they would implement to avoid future oversights.Transit officials have used wrong classifications like that for errors in the past, according to adepriving the agency of chances to opportunities to learn from the mistakes.
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