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Yes, however, keep in mind, the is already capped by the , , (soon to be or whatever you want to call it) and the , so if the needs to up it's capacity, it has other issues. Having said that, any extra trains coming from Queens can be turned at Whitehall, and any extra trains needed in Brooklyn can be run as (T)'s instead. If it ever does become too much however, we can simply end the at Broad Street, which while taking out service to Brooklyn, still saved A LOT of money in construction costs. In response to the second comment, I disagree in that it's Broad Street's location that makes it perform poorly. I believe it's due to the fact that the average person wants midtown, where the doesn't go. Lower Manhattan isn't a destination if you don't work there. I'd also like to add, that we're talking a five, ten minute walk at most to the Nassau Street line from Water Street, so with the exception of perhaps Worth Street, they're not missing out on much.

Haha, funny, I just found a page with them yesterday completely by accident. How bout that? http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2008/07/03/the_bloodiest_subway_car_youll_see_this_week.php

Instead of wasting a ton of money on giving the it's own line in Downtown Manhattan, only for it to end there, why not route it through the only 4 tracked line in the system to run 10TPH? I propose running the through the Nassau Street Line from Bowery to Broad Street, and then continuing through Montague and the 4th Ave Local (The doesn't share tracks through Dekalb, and only runs on 10TPH, so it can work) up to 4th Ave-9th Sts, where it will continue to 15th Street, where it will branch off in time to clear Prospect Avenue Station, and run under Prospect Parkway to a new station between 5th and 6th Avenues, where the train will terminate, without interfering with other trains. Since it's being built on a city owned ROW, tail tracks could easily be added. This would require a reconfiguration of the Nassau Line tracks (shown here (with a street overlay of the Bowery-Chrystie connection here)) and ideally an extension of the platforms, but is not required. The separate station at Prospect could also be cut, but that would require running the trains to Bay Ridge, which seems like vastly overserving it unless you cut all ®'s to Whitehall. This would also mean being forced to use 60ft'ers on the , but it seems like a small price to pay for getting the to Brooklyn while still saving money over the original plan.

WOW... That seems utterly terrifying

During rush hours: M To 57th St F Via 53rd St and QBL J Extra service to encourage passengers to take it over the E so that there's more room for the overflow F passengers Other times, normal service except the still goes via 53rd St. From Brooklyn: Send as many 5's as possible via the 2, just cancel the rest 4 to Bowling Green J Z Replaces R M Replaces B Q (Runs via local to CI) N Suspended D Every other train via Sea Beach; Runs to West 4th F To West 4th From Queens/Bronx: Send as many 5's as possible via the 2, just turn the rest at E 180 4 To 86th St 6 To 86th St N Q To 57th St R Suspended F To 57th St M To 57th St, Via 63rd B Suspended D Via Concourse Local, To 59th St In both directions; A Delays F Some trains run via the G G Is suspended as a result And as you can imagine, run as many shuttle buses as you possibly can 2 To New Lots Ave; Extra trains 5 To Crown Heights-Utica Ave (During late nights as well); Extra trains 3 Suspended 4 Suspended

Very nice proposal, LTA, however there are two things that caught my eye, that I would like to point out. Your first avenue line goes straight through tudor city, which is landmarked, so IIRC you can't build that there. Also, I may have missed something here, but why build a new line a block away from an exsisting one instead of just using it's structure?

They do? Looks like I know where i'm fanning next time i'm down.

Well that's a headline I'd never thought I'd see on a newspaper

Speaking of, why did they get rid of the Annie Bergen announcements?

Why does the S94 not run to Montauk Station?

He was referring to the fact that he took out his phone wile driving which is against regulation Unless it's a special find, or you went out for an hour+ just to get that one, why not just let them be? Yeah, I don't like it when drivers are rude about it, but in a lot of places it's still considered weird, and people don't know about the hobby. Personally, I think it gives a better impression to all of those drivers if we just stop when they ask. Most of the drivers up here have never heard of such a thing, but when they tell me to stop, I do, and explain why I was doing it, and it generally works out better between me and the drivers, and it helps alot whenever I need to get CDTA involved. And not just here, I do it for other agencies too.

Are T/O's and C/R's assigned yards and they can only change out every year like buses, or no? If so, are there high seniority yards?

That sounds horrifying. And I've never seen one of them, literally ever Even one of the first days of operation on the BX12SBS, the op kept saying that one was coming on, then sure enough we got to 207th and they never came

How so? They still have to go through bedford to get to the yard

Why do the last few (B)s of the AM rush only go to Kingsbridge?

The were the first artics in the fleet

Any reason for the change?

Just checked the depot roster, Charleston has weekend runs now?

Few questions here Is Meredith a senior depot or a rookie depot? Are it's trips on the 10,11, and 14 the ones that do one then are off until the afternoon, or the ones that start at 5-6 and do 2 trips? Does it vary? If so, why are the specific runs out of there, from there? After all castleton does a share of the 12. Do their buses also use quill? Is there a shuttle they run from quill back to the depot? (They do that with Yonkers, I think?) How often do they mess with the routes out of there? I'm assuming it's the smallest in terms of runs since it's rush hour only? On holidays, do the drivers get sent to other depots, or do they just get the day off? Same question also applies with Charleston, assuming they're closed on holidays too General question Does transferring from an ATU depot to a TWU depot in NYCT effect benefits, seniority, etc? If so, is your union determined by the first depot you do, or is it determined at hiring?