SUBWAY - Random Thoughts Topic

[Eric B]

Late with this (so much going on in recent years), but two years ago,  the current BMT/IND service surpassed the original Chrystie St. service pattern, which lasted 18 years and 5 months (11-26-67 to 4-26-86, when we entered 18 years of reconstruction with temporary service change patterns lasting years at a time! Serious problems, with intermittent smaller [but growing] shutdowns had begun four years before that! )
Growing up in the Chrystie era, that seemed universal, and forever. Then, when all the shutdowns and reroutes began, it seemed we'd never get back to normal. (Remember when the Canal St. bridge tracks seemed abandoned forever; with at one point, the track bed broken up?)

 When it was finally finished, 2-04, the new pattern on the directly affected lines was totally different ((B)/(D) swap), but did make sense as to simplifying the service. The public seems to be fine with it (where the original Chrystie plan had been forced on them against their wishes. The new pattern has some elements of the old pre-Chrystie layout, such as the full time Bway service and the two weekday services to Astoria, with both Queens lines having local service to lower Manhattan).

I back then imagined the day when that would be as long established as the old Chrystie pattern, or if a new round of bridge problems would surface when the work they did would "wear off"; but the time flew, and the bridge work seems to be holding up this time (for now), and so we've passed the duration of the old pattern,  and for the forseeable future.

[TyBusLover1]

R211A/Ts I rode today: 4089(A) 4219(A) 4041(C) and another R211A but I forgot.

[darkstar8983]

Can anyone confirm this new change on the  train programs: 

When biking over the Williamsburg Bridge, I saw an R179  train running to Manhattan in the morning and said 

 - Jamaica Skip-Stop

 - Broadway Local

 - Broad St

 

Instead of:

 - Skip-Stop

 - Jamaica Exp

 - Broad St