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Alu, which MTA division do you work for?

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

End to end it can take 6 to 8 months to complete the hiring process. From "conditional offer" to start date can take 3 months. Background & Investigations can take 2 months. HR is many times inclined to not be in contact with candidates if there's nothing to report to them about. If you are "in process" you are at the point of awaiting a "conditional offer", if it comes the process continues if it doesn't then you didn't land the gig. Nothing on the portal interms of "status" is relevant. What you are awaiting is a possibility of an offer. The hiring process is long, tedious, drawn out & at times without communication. So while you may think they have abandoned you, they may return back when you are next up for action. Stay patient & don't think it happens it any time efficiency.

This bus came back shortly a couple of months ago. I saw it parked in the depot a few weeks ago but hasn't run again. This one and 5939 both haven't been out, 5939 has been parked in the same spot for like 2 months now.

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

It can happen to any unit that isn’t well enough to continue service. 4037 and 4081 are examples.

ah okay. that's cool. surprised Manhattan wasn't open at all. ideally I'd like to get into one of those depots but Brooklyn would be cool too.

okay. thank you so much for all of your insight on this thread! you've been super helpful!

That’s correct.

So they plan to have a class of about 100 train operators almost every month from now till december Youd have to see if DCAS recertified the list this year or not already

I really hate that name...

Better now than later...

It's only been a week. Keep calm, fellas.

Since when?

Already? It just got there.

the pilot set was out of service for a while

Hello,I was called back in Oct last year for pre employment in which I didn't go through with it, then decided to add my name back on the list a month ago. Knowing that this current list will expire in September 2024 do you think it's possible of being called before then List number is 74## Thank you

2466 UP has V2 screens

Hi, I found a copy of the overnight bus map during COVID and I see the BM2 seemingly going through the BM3/4 portion overnight. Is that really what's happening? Also, does anybody have a stop list of the B99, M99 and Bx99 buses during then. Thanks!

4123 Zerega/LaGuardia to Eastchester Scrap

From a trusted the source; the R211S’s are having power issues and cab signal problems in certain areas of the mainline which is why they’ve been sidelined at St. George for the past few weeks.

Fact: 4247 had cloth on the top of its seats. So all of them are still in revenue/passenger service except 4479 being MIA.

we REALLY dont need anymore 4 car sets in the system, just kick off a few 179s to the so the can have a few more 160 sets for its planned electrical system upgrades

Thanks! The way it was worded, it seemed like they were cutting off access entirely between GCT and GCM!

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.