Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Now these arrival clocks need to be disperses throughout the stations, instead of just being in the center of these stations.

MTA says every subway station now has arrival clocks

Straphangers will now have the luxury of knowing just how late their train will be. The MTA said on Monday that it has installed arrival-time technology at all 471 subway stations. The long-delayed project - which began roughly a decade ago - will also be accessible on cellphones, the agency said.

From article, (Straphangers will now have the luxury of knowing just how late their train will be.
The MTA said on Monday that it has installed arrival-time technology at all 471 subway stations.
The long-delayed project — which began roughly a decade ago — will also be accessible on cellphones, the agency said.
Riders have long grumbled at the train-time guesswork, while most major European cities had already solved the transit riddle years ago.
The final lines to implement the system were the 7, A and Franklin Avenue Shuttle in Brooklyn, according to the MTA.)

Me, "Now, they need to be dispersed all over the Subway stations except just being in the middle of the platform where subways riders may not be standing." 

Childhood Autism Eases?

Autism spectrum disorders appear to have stabilized among U.S. kids and teens

Researchers have a new reason to believe that the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in the U.S. has reached a plateau. It comes from the National Health Interview Survey, which shows that 2.41% of U.S. kids and teens had a form of autism between 2014 and 2016.

From article, (Researchers have a new reason to believe that the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in the U.S. has reached a plateau.
The evidence comes from the National Health Interview Survey, which polls American households about a variety of conditions. When a participating family includes children, one of those kids is selected at random to be included in the interview.
A new question was added to the survey in 2014: “Has a doctor or health professional ever told you that [the child] had autism, Asperger’s disorder, pervasive developmental disorder, or autism spectrum disorder?”
Between 2014 and 2016, this question was answered for 30,502 children ages 3 to 17. In 711 cases, the answer was “yes.”
Researchers from the University of Iowa weighted those responses to account for the fact that not all American households were equally likely to be selected for the survey — and that among those that were, not all were equally likely to provide an answer to that particular question.
But the differences between the two surveys may not be as significant as the fact that both suggest the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders has stabilized.
The Iowa researchers said more work will be needed to determine whether changes in environmental risks, diagnostic criteria, public awareness or other factors are behind the apparent end to a decade-long increase.)