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What does it mean these notes "ATTENTION CUSTOMERS: At stations west of Jamaica, westbound trains may depart stations up to three minutes earlier than times shown" and "On all branches, eastbound trains may depart stations east of Jamaica up to three minutes earlier than times shown"? Why?
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Is there the possibility that both projects (https://new.mta.info/project/interborough express and https://www.brooklynqueensconnector.nyc/route) can become reality or one excludes the other?
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On 1/4/2023 at 2:07 AM, Via Garibaldi 8 said:
I actually have been all over Italy, including Naples. What's wrong with Naples exactly?
The absurd average frequency of buses and subway!
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19 hours ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:
Oh please with your comparisons to Europe. There is no comparison. The proof of payment system in Europe comes with its own problems. Having lived in Europe (Italy), I saw rampant farebeating, on both the trains and buses. The checkers are few and far in between in some places. I think in all of the times I used public transit living there, I can recall only being checked a handful of times, mainly for long trips such as Milan to Bologna where you are on a train for a few hours. Once going from Florence to Pisa (the first time I went from Pisa to Florence I was not checked at all) by train, another time coming from Scandicci back to my place in Florence and a few other times, but there was one instance I recall where we had a checker on a bus. The bus was packed as we were in a busy part of the City Centre of Florence and the checker had to deal with so many fare beaters or people who had not stamped their ticket that he would've had to have gone several stops before he got everyone. I got off shortly after, but there were a number of people that clearly buy tickets and then wait until a checker comes to then run to one of the machines on the bus and stamp their ticket. If it's the train, they become familiar with what stops checkers come and get off before anyone comes to check. Maybe Germany is a bit better in this regard, as I've only been in Frankfurt, but plenty of other European cities have a serious issue with the whole honor system, so I find your comments about being "civilized" comical. The French are a good example where people constantly look to beat the fare. Are they still considered civilized? lol
Second, the transit systems are heavily subsidized via high taxes and measures are taken to get people to not drive and use mass transit. For example, taking taxis are expensive. I can recall calling a taxi to and from my place one day because I was carrying something heavy and the meter was already running before I even got in the taxi.
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's funding sources are varied and complex. Yes, the fare is only $2.75, but you fail to realize how many times over that cost is subsidized, even if some people never used the . Fees from tolls, various surcharges on utility bills, congestion fee below 96th St and on and on. New York City is one of the highest taxed cities in the US, so $2.75 is a very reasonable fare.
The discounts could be more varied I agree, and I believe they will be once they finally finish with the OMNY issues and get it fully rolled out.
And luckily you haven't been to Naples...
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6 hours ago, Marco927 said:
A few weeks I was standing on the Manhattan-bound platform at Hickville trying to take a train to Manhattan at around 6 pm, on a weekday. For more than half an hour, every train arriving at Hickville were east-bound trains, even the trains arriving at the north track (Manhattan bound) were east-bound trains.
I couldn't comprehend that all the trains were east-bound. I felt l had gotten into a twilight zone where trains only run in one direction.
When I checked the newest LIRR train schedules, I found out that after the 5:29 train, the next train is at 6:35. That is a period of 1 hour and 6 minutes without any Manhattan-bound trains at Hickville. If you want to take a LIRR train to Manhattan around 6 pm to see a Broadway show, Knicks, or Rangers game, does it mean you have to plan for lack of city-bound trains around 6 pm?
I guess that is because both tracks were used by east-bound trains. Now that Third Track project is finished, when will LIRR add more Manhattan-bound trains around 6 pm? Why will east bound and west bound passengers begin to see the benefits of the third track?
Dear Marco, from next month, between 5:29pm and 6:38pm, there will be 7 trains...
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And this is another strange situation...
Daylight Saving Added Service, Sunday, November 6, 2022.
Babylon Branch: https://new.mta.info/document/98786
Ronkonkoma Branch: https://new.mta.info/document/98791
Why only these 2 extra eastbound trips?
Why not also these 3 extra westbound trips (2:10am from Port Washington - 2:13am from Ronkonkoma - 2:19am from Huntington)?
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I don't like the OPTO, but I know that some NYC subway lines have it. On wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-person_operation) there is written that the the OPTO lines are:
Franklin Avenue Shuttle (R68) : 2 cars
42nd Street Shuttle (R62A) : 6 cars
Rockaway Park Shuttle (R46) : 4 cars
5 train (Dyre Avenue and East 180th Street) during late nights (R142) : 5 cars
A train on the Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard branch during late nights (R46) : 4 cars
G weekends (R160) : 5 cars
M weekends (R160) : 4 cars
But what about the 3 train (148th Street and Times Square–42nd Street), M train (Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue and Myrtle Avenue) and R train (Bay Ridge–95th Street and Whitehall Street–South Ferry) during late nights? Are they OPTO or these late night shuttles have the conductor?
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I noticed that the few entrances with red lamps have almost all this indication: enter with or buy the MetroCard ALL TIMES, while the agent on duty is part-time (to see for example the photo in this site: https://techsponyc.com/new-york-transport/)
But what is the difference with this green lamp entrance?
There is written the same thing....
Why that Times Square entrance has the red lamps and this Penn Station entrance has the green lamps?
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On 5/30/2021 at 2:54 AM, AJ023 said:
Will stops on City Terminal Zone stations such as Woodside, Forest Hills and Kew Gardens get both Penn Station and Grand Central Station trains once the project is completed?
Im curious as to how they will schedule trains.
On the wiki page of East Side Access there is written that the trains are expected to run 24 hours a day and that the plans call for 24 trains per hour to run to Grand Central during peak morning hours, with an estimated 162,000 passenger trips to and from Grand Central on an average weekday.
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Thank you for this new dutiful thread!
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Yes, since from COVID emergency the overnight frequency on the 2 late night lines of the PATH are 40 minutes and 2 stations are closed (9th Street and 23rd Street) 12-5am: https://www.nj.com/hudson/2020/05/2-path-stations-in-nyc-to-shut-down-overnight-for-remainder-of-covid-19-emergency.html
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On page 155 of (http://web.mta.info/mta/investor/pdf/2020/2019_CAFR_Final.pdf) there is an interesting table of the MTA and there is written that the route length of the NYC subway is 248 miles.
1) But why until 2014 there were 246 subway route miles (NYC subway+Staten Island Railroad) and since 2015 (before 2017 expansions of the 7 and Q lines) they are 259?
2) Is it possible to know how many exact rail route mails has the NY subway? I know that they were 245 miles before expansions of the 7 line (1,5 miles) and the Q line (1,8 miles), therefore the total should be 248,3 miles (399,600 km). We know that the new 1,8 mile tunnel extends under Second Avenue from 63rd Street to 96th Street (https://www.wsp.com/en-SE/insights/new-york-opens-its-second-avenue-subway). But since 2017 it is in operation also a new small segment under the Central Park from 57St -7Th Av station to Lexington Av-63St station. What is the lenght of this tract without calculation the very small part that overlaps with the F line? If it is at least 0,3 miles, the new total should be 248,6 miles and therefore OVER 400 km.
Thank you for the possible reply and excuse me for my incorrect English.
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Over 500 ghost trains run every night between 1am and 5am only for cops and transit workers, but above all because there is not enough space in the system to store all trains simultaneously, and so that they can easily resume service at 5 am.
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Ok, I just though that for many New Yorkers the 24/7 subway service was very important and that this situation was an injustice. But if there are these reactions and even insults, I'll stop writing about this.
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After De Blasio, Cuomo and Foye, also Sarah Feinberg says that the 24/7 subway service will be restored. But when????
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It should be the stupidies thing in the world: to punish over 100.000 riders that every weeknight (1-5AM) take the subway since 1904 for some poor homeless. Ridicolous and ABSOLUTELY wrong. To stop Trump, but to stop also this delusional Cuomo.....That enough. NY is a 24/7 city!!
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1 hour ago, BM5 via Woodhaven said:
That's the first time I believe that they've brought up the financial situation. Up to this point, it's mainly been due to low utilization. Seems like this is the beginning, and they're going to slowly reduce the routes to have enhanced overnight service to only a few (the 99 routes plus several others).
So, the X68 trips at 4:02 AM and 5:02 AM will now be completely discontinued. I also wonder what they mean by "reduced overnight frequency". I wish they would be clearer with that point, because that's pretty vague. I wish they would display the public timetables like they initially did instead of having people resort to using Trip Planner.
But wouldn't it be better to restore the 24/7 subway service ALSO for the riders (the overnight service has never stopped, but not for the riders...)?
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My curiosity: after almost 100 days of overnight shutdown, every night (1-5AM) are there still the cops in every entrance of the 472 NYC stations?
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's funding sources are varied and complex. Yes, the fare is only $2.75, but you fail to realize how many times over that cost is subsidized, even if some people never used the 
LIRR And MNRR Random Thoughts Thread
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And what about this line and these notes "Eastbound trains may depart stations between Woodside and Plandome up to three minutes earlier than times shown" and " Westbound trains may depart Woodside station up to three minutes earlier than times shown"?
https://new.mta.info/document/105296