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I don't know how this could have anything to do with 34th St, but at the same time, they were sending downtown trains via 8th Ave and having them terminate at Jay St-Metrotech. This caused a huge logjam in the Cranberry Tunnel that I was stuck in the middle of. Why they didn't just have the 's turnaround at WTC is beyond me. Took me an extra hour to get home is all I know...

This is probably a dumb question, but I'm a little confused about something. Tuesday night, I was walking across the Manhattan Bridge. An OOS train was going across, Manhattan-bound, on the north track. This train had the LED green ring on the roll sign lit up, but I couldn't make anything else out in the low light. This couldn't possibly be an R62A, right? Did any B-Division cars get those lights? What the heck did I see?

I was at Canal St at around 7 tonight, and I saw an OOS R32 pull in on the downtown express track. Except it was a 4 car set (ending in 3782), signed up as a in the front/back lights. Might be a dumb question, but can anybody shed some light as to why this would be there in that state?

I just walked by Kingston-Throop and a Manhattan-Bound train definitely pulled into the station, stopped and proceeded. So I'm as puzzled as the rest of you.

I guess your friend of a friend was also my friend of a friend, because I was about to copy and paste the same thing you posted hours ago. Somehow, Leah Evans has found her way to the transit forums. We're all doomed.

True. Also, considering the time, it was probably the last of the night...

Just encountered something weird and maybe someone here can shed some light on it. I was waiting for a train at High St about an hour ago when a train rolled in. I asked the T/O where it was going and he said it would go on the to CI. This made sense to me. Shortly afterward, a train came and I really got confused. Again, I asked the T/O where it was going, but this time he was unsure of himself and suggested Brighton Beach. The train tried to leave the station, went 2 inches, then halted so that he could get further instructions on where he was actually going. Logically speaking, there is no possible way a train could get from High St to Brighton, right? Why wasn't this train terminated at WTC or 2 Ave? How can a train get that far without knowing where it's actually going? Can anybody help me out here? And of course I was too befuddled to get pics. Rats.

I think it was originally an that got diverted, and was only signed up as a Express for a short period of time. But when the board rebooted, it started from the beginning of the line, going 6th ave local to Jay St, then diverting to Fulton Lcl. It also didn't help passenger confusion when the T/O announced at every station that it was in fact an train. One would think at that point, you would just call it a . They were also sending a via Culver when I passed through Jay St. Must've been a hell of a police investigation.

I grabbed an R160 Express at Canal St, but then it changed into an Express, terminating at Euclid. It was Foam City.

Could this be the reason as to why I caught an R-62A train tonight?

There's something that's been on my mind for the last week that probably has an easy answer: Every day, I take either the 11:56AM or 12:06PM train into Manhattan. Once the train passes Lafayette Ave, it's a dice roll to see if the is going to pass in order to bully the into waiting in between Lafayette and Hoyt-Schermerhorn. If I'm on a 12:06, I keep my fingers crossed that does not happen so I won't be late for work. But even sometimes, it stops it between stations and waits a good 30 seconds before the even appears on the express tracks. So it's actually 2 questions: 1) Why are the signals giving the so much time to catch up when the can easily beat it out to Hoyt-Schermerhorn and go through without the passengers even noticing? 2) If the conductor knows that it's going to get stopped, why doesn't it just sit at Lafayette while it waits? I'm sure it would make a few late straphangers happy and it wouldn't make any difference to any of the regular commuters who already know what they're dealing with.

There must've been a third thing going on. After waiting 40 minutes for an local, it was claimed that due to a stalled train, no trains could go into Manhattan. So the thing turned around at Jay St. Considering that the evening before, a police investigation at Rockaway Ave caused me to walk home from Manhattan, this has been some of the worst [non-hurricane/non-planned service change] commuting I've ever had.

The MTA really do have to get better with advisories. Last night, there was a "Planned Service Change" of Brooklyn-Bound trains running on the from W4 to Jay St. I got down at Spring St, and there is one single sign, placed inconspicuously to the side of the turnstile. I looked up and down the platform and that was the only sign that was posted. The T/O of the downtown that came by did nothing to alert us of the situation. Not to mention, this "Planned" service change is nowhere to be found on the weekly board. In short, I got smart and grabbed an up to W4, while 10+ people didn't listen to me and were stuck waiting for an that wasn't going to come.

Due to a train with mechanical problems at the Broad Channel Satation, I've been stuck in a Far Rockaway-bound train t the Howard Beach Station for over 15 minutes. I could only imagine that this will disrupt and service throughout the day... Update: We've been kicked off the train with no further instructions. I can only assume that this means no or trains between Howard Beach and Far Rockaway/Rockaway Park for the time being.

On the contrary, I feel like the fleet was upped yesterday. As I waited for an Manhattan-bound at Kingston-Throop, not 2, but 3 Euclid-bound 's made a stop through. This was in the span of 10 minutes. Then while moving, I spotted another Euclid-bound at Lafayette, one at High St and yet another at Fulton St. The only conclusion that I can come up with is that they upped the fleet yesterday so that more people could use the Franklin Ave to get to Prospect Park. After all it was a holiday, I guess?