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I remember when HPA and AT was discounted to be part of fare zone 3. Ridership at HPA increased by more than 200% or something like that. Too bad service went back to crap after the repairs are done

Missing intervals at Far Rock wow, I feel bad for the passengers that have to wait 40 minutes for a revenue train back north

LIRR still treats its system, despite all the positive spin they put on the new schedules as primarily a service to transport passengers from the suburbs to Manhattan. Everything else seem incidental in their view. Quite frankly I think their definition of reverse commuter is people commuting from Manhattan to Long Island, Screw the outer boroughs, screw inter-island ridership, screw transfers. Everything is catered towards Manhattan Metro North does a MUCH better job at serving people "not going to Manhattan"

Could have something to do with work assignments already set in place based on the new schedule. Plus the new schedule in some ways is a vast improvement over the old schedules for reverse commuters along the main line. Going back to the old schedule will go back to having 3-4 hour gaps in service along the main line for reverse peak commuters. Major tweaking is needed, but going back to how things were is not a answer to that.

Happened to me when I was on the a couple of weeks ago, group of kids come in throwing McD around, kicking car windows, and opening the rear cab, turning off the lights, honking the horn and when they decided to make a run for it, pulled the e brakes. All between one station One of them have a MTA key or something

I'm think we can better utilize the transit police's resource fighting crime and preventing fare beaters than babysit a bunch of immature foamers

The main issue with rerouting the express to 63rd St is less about the train transfers but more about the important and very well used train transfer at Lex/53rd. Transfers are not usually a bad thing. The problem is unreliable service. If you can consistently run QBlvd locals every 5 minutes, then the transfer penalty is minimal. If you have to transfer to something resembling train reliability, no commuter would like that. Nobody wants to get off the at Roosevelt Ave and wait 25 minutes for the In reality, what is more likely to happen is both express will go via 53rd and one of the local will go via 63rd. Personally on weekends I don’t bother with the . I always just take the even though it’s local. Service is just more consistent In the ideal world we would have another trunk line in that area but NYC forgot how to build anything that cost less than 20 billion dollars 50 years ago

I would argue that the pandemic solved the crowding problem. It’s still very crowded but not jamed packed 7 express you have at Queensboro Plaza The QBL sucks and there is endless construction. Trains are crowded on weekend, sometime even more than weekdays outside of rush hour If you were to ask me, the point of most risk of overcrowding will be in that part of Queens, where you have gentrification and lack of duplicative subway service. The IBX and the Rockaway Beach if they build it will further feed these lines, adding to the pressure

Update on the paper combo ticket version. It will only display Origin station to Grand Central, then in fine print mention "Valid for one ride on all train within zone indicated with transfer to Metro North" I bought mines at Woodside, and the ticket said Woodside to Penn Station?? Gotta say the MNR conductor didn't know what to make out of it but accepted it. I guess not many people uses combo tickets yet

Well service is dictated by ridership. You have packed Penn trains and half full GC trains Either ridership haven’t caught on yet, or a lot of the East Side offices/employees are still WFH. Perhaps the MTA never did a ridership study post pandemic to see where people are returning to offices

They are building a couple of new towers near Hudson Yards and on the West side. Many firms are either opening satellite offices or relocating from their offices to be in Hudson Yards I was mostly thinking about discretionary riders. These I feel will much prefer the location of Penn Station than Grand Central yet half the service goes to Grand Central over the weekend

MTA is still treating the LIRR as a service from Nassau/Suffolk into Manhattan. Forget about intermediate riders, how else could you explain the asinine service patterns where one train would stop at Kew Gardens and one would stop at Forest Hills, and the alternative they are mentioning is to take the subway which runs like crap

At the end of the day as nice as GCT is, there is not much near GCT compared to Penn especially on weekends and off peak hours. I would think that off peak riders would much prefer Penn than GCT As for work commuters, this is a casualty of the pandemic, many offices near Park Ave/Lexington Ave are actually either downsizing and moving to Hudson Yards out of all the places I'm still of the opinion that if it wasn't that the MTA already sunk billions of dollar into this project, I would argue it should've been cancelled around 2010 with the funding used to improve Hunterspoint Avenue and/or Atlantic Terminal

Yeah though I think hating on the MTA is almost part of an identity of someone from New York at this point Regarding the QM3 comment, it was in reference to the incentive for people to shun the LIRR in order to take the QM3, which is exactly what we do not need. It is inefficient to shift/incentive people to go from a higher capacity transit to a lower capacity transit, which is exactly what free buses will do I also agree with your assessment that free transit will deter some people from riding. LA Metro is a classic example of this. It’s not free but it’s easy to not pay as the gates are never working and stuck in the open position. It is downright scary to be down there at times. They have it much worse than NY. If women are afraid to ride the subway here there is no way they would ride in LA. The amount of characters seen on the subway will increase which will actually decrease the amount of people who are so called “normal” from riding, and only having people who are captive is usually not a good sign for transit

I don’t think you are in the minority here, or as a matter in fact anyone who actually uses transit. The extra funding used to offer free transit is ALWAYS better off used to improve the quality, span and frequency of service Which is why I am on board with Riders Alliance 6 minutes headway everyday and opposed to the free bus proposal

Yeah either way I’m in favor of working towards that instead of making buses free across the city

Oh each time I pay I feel like a sucker, both on trains and buses Im this close each time to just saying if you can’t beat ‘em, join them, cause people paying the fares are getting slammed twice, both in terms of the fares and tax collections On Staten Island you would have a couple of teens get on the bus for like one stop and getting off, wasting everyone’s time. In the Bronx it’s common courtesy to hold the back door open, as people board the bus like it is a free shuttle bus In Queens and Nassau what used to be non existent fare beating, I’m starting to see more and more of that happening here as well. Some drivers still challenge it, but some don’t. This culture of fare beating has nothing to do with the ability to pay, because as soon as you have a couple of NYPD patrolling the station, they either pay up or leave the station and try their luck elsewhere They need POP on buses (and even on the subway imo) like yesterday, and they need to enforce it heavily, in all neighborhood

No No No No. I never been a fan of free transit in general anywhere If the transit is crap it doesn’t matter if you gave me $1 to ride. If I’m still going to work late. Doesn’t really apply to NYC really if you are going to Manhattan but definitely in other places like Kansas City I would much rather they put the money into their 6 minute headway goal instead If express bus was free, it would quickly become overcrowded from both LIRR passengers and subway-bus passengers. Port Washington will lose 50% of its ridership lol and QM3 will be running every 2 minutes Similar to SEPTA before they introduced free transfers, instead of transferring to the Broad St Subway at first opportunity they took the bus all the way downtown, essentially running two parellel system Or they will just take the free bus and hop the turnstiles for the subway. Expect even less people to buy passes The fare is not the incentive for people to take transit/reduce congestion. Transit is already the cheapest way to get around. Having better service is. That means not having buses that is suppose to run every 20 minutes at night skip a interval, having subway service that bunch when it is already scheduled to run every 12 minutes , endless constructions and slow orders.. I like their 6 minutes proposal more. Many cities around the world operate 6 min or better service on their lines with less interlining though. Even having every 8 min on weekend would be a massive improvement. As for buses, I’m glad MTA have so far has not been going back to the old ways where they cut service every month because of their guidelines and wonder why the ridership drops afterwards. (They just don’t fill runs now but that’s another story)

Try taking the Queens Blvd Line on the weekend and get back to me. If you think the is bad (which it is), the and (and ) will make it look like London Underground. The entire B Div except for and maybe (they run infrequently, but at least they are consistent) runs like garbage especially off peak hours. Between endless construction work, crew shortages which led to 30 minute waits, bunching in service due to construction work, leading to another 20-30 minute wait, service running slow, service running local and slow, it is non-stop. On weekday the trains are usually fine, but on evening and weekend, complete crap service. I sometimes wished they just shut down half of the QBL at Roosevelt Avenue at one time for like 6 month or so, do all the repairs at once, and shut the other half when that is done. It is extremely disruptive I know, but I am sick and tired that assumes nobody needs to get anywhere in a reasonable amount of time on the weekends and evenings. These weekend construction has been going on since like what early 2000? The and are probably the only trains in the entire system that are competitive internationally. They run frequent, semi-reliable service and have very good off peak service. 8 minutes is a service cut for the Compared to the this is great service. All the QBL services seem to love running in bunches, so you will have a in 1 min, a in 3 min and a in 5 minutes and then no trains for another 15 minutes

Public transportation in New York is already extremely subsidized. Regarding passes I have a feeling you want to make the passes cheaper. It will not happen. On MNR/LIRR passes are a much better value, but that is only because their one way fares are (imo) outrageously high Regarding POP I agree we need POP here in the subway AND buses. In my ideal world we will have exit AND entry gates as well as POP, this way someone will have to actively farebeat two times and be concerned about checker during their rides In Germany those checkers show no mercy, either you have a valid ticket or you don’t, doesn’t matter if oh are a tourist, student, broke

Can’t wait for it to open to Orlando. May have to take a trip down there Regarding Ft Lauderdale I always found Brightline to be pricey. Tri-Rail or the bus is still much cheaper than Brightline which I see as a luxury service. It is however convenient that it stops right downtown

n43 going to Roosevelt Field now displays n43 Roosevelt Fld in lower case

I wonder how useful it really is though, som of the announcements were made after the bus has either already completed or in the progress of doing the turn I can’t wait either. Not because I like using OMNY or what but NICE farebox are notoriously unreliable Going on a bit of a rant now, but multiple times, the bus will either damage my card (happens way more often than in the city). Just a couple of days ago, I had a card that was working on the n70 suddenly not work on the n6. Operator looked at me like a farebeater lol More often though is that I get charged twice for what is supposed to be a free transfer, especially on those split routes. Now NICE advertises a free transfer but in actuality I have always been charged for them. That includes the n20G/n20H which sometimes work sometimes doesn’t. In fact just today I did a fan trip n24-n20H-n20G Charged for n24, n20H and n20G, atleast I still received my free transfer on the subway Usually I would have a spare Metrocard with $2 or $2.50 and pay the rest in coins so I can get a paper transfer but I just happen to not have that on me today. Lesson learned. Always get a paper transfer on NICE. No wonder why the person in front of me keep getting the wrong bus error as well

I was just about to post this as well, I saw L on Marie or something like that I was like what, then the announcement came. I first thought it was a feature in the clever device system for navigation

Well to be fair, you have a expected budget shortfall, you have to do two things to balance the budget, either increase the revenue, such as a government bailout. The congestion pricing goes to MTA's capital projects, not operations, that fare increase or reduce expense. Reducing expense without increasing the productivity of the workers (both managements and unions) means service reductions is probably the only option. It doesn't look like the MTA is looking very hard to save money anyways But when there is service reductions, something has to go, hard decisions will have to be made Not saying the isn't needed or the weakest link in Brooklyn, but if there is a budget hole, the weakest link is the first one to go. The 2010 cuts was also because of budget shortfalls not R44 retirement