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You freaked me out for a second, because I thought they were also doing construction on Queensboro Plaza (QBP) while they were doing FasTrack on the Queens Boulevard Line (QBL). Pretty sure you just meant QBL though - QBP they're using as a major transfer point for customers affected on the QBL, since all the service east of roosevelt is funneled onto the . As for the customers who didn't know that they were FastTracking, while I live nearest one of the stations closed by the fastrack and can totally sympathize with their ire - I don't understand how they could be in the dark on the program. There are literally posters about it on every column in my station, and on every car of every E, F, M, and R train. (Seriously the MTA's Kinko's bill must be off the chart.) New Yorkers are so quick to be frustrated by service changes. I try to stop and think about the convenience of having a magic stairwell I can descend, pay less than a cup of starbucks, and emerge just about anywhere in the city within an hour. Sometimes It's going to be slightly less convenient, because of you know, the physics of the whole thing: but it's pretty easy to check your phone before you go downstairs and figure out what's running and what's not. It's the unplanned changes once I'm already onboard that still frustrate me. But what are you going to do? It's a train. If you can't roll with the punches, pony up the cash and take a cab.

Uh- are you trying to figure out how to rip a god damn FIND panel out of a train? If so, please don't. Kthx.

Just Posted (11:30 Am Monday) Northbound and via Montague because of a smoke condition at Dekalb. (and que the "signal problems at court st" in 3...2...) Northbound B trains short-turning at Prospect Park.

Posted June 2nd 9:55 pm Due to signal problems at Court St, some trains are running via the line from Dekalb to W4 st, then via the line from W4 st to 36st (qns). That is one hell of a reroute. The signals in montague really need to be totally ripped out, huh?

Did it make a second run back downtown after heading to 168 from the Rockaways? I mean, I guess they'd have to get it to either CIY or the musueum eventually.

I mean the train I would have gotten on was literally the one that derailed. There were no announcements while I was down there, but I bailed after 10 minutes or so, when all the times on the countdown clock changed to "Delay". When I got above ground I got the first alert about "mechanical problems" but there was no audible announcement in the station.

Well, that explains why there were no trains after the one I missed at 110 st this evening.

I've heard of it going express in that segment. Assumably they don't put the layups in the layup yard because the layup yard is full. The F is one of the busiest lines, mind you, and rush hour goes in both directions for different segments of it. The only reason some E trains even run the route is that Jamaica Center can't turn enough trains to support the 15/15 E/F split that is currently in use. The express tracks along hillside, mostly were for future expansion. There's not much reason to run an express service on them with current service patterns, I don't think.

I think the service is meant to be express, but lay-ups on the F often prevent this. Speaking of the train, trains were delayed and platforms majorly jammed at 47-50 as I waited for the - which would be going over 63rd anyway. The minutes dragged on and I thought to myself, I bet it's a R46 F train with a persnickety door. Sure enough, the old F comes crawling into the station and is promptly mobbed by the dullard masses who can't fathom there will be 4 or 5 trains in a conga line behind it. And there's that sticky door. Open-close. Open-close. Open-close. I look up and down the train for the red light of doom. It's in the head car, just behind the T/O cab, and the T/O is leaning her head out the window looking at it and frowning. Now, I thought I might be crossing the line on this one, in terms of good samaritan vs. interfering with the train, but I was standing a car back and this had been going on for a few minutes, so I elect to walk up to the door and give it a good shove towards closed. *click*. The door locks, the light's out. I look at the T/O who I'm half expecting to be unhappy with my random act of shove-age - but she's not. She's smiling widely and gives me a thanks and a wave. As the train leaves the station I think to myself "Yeah man, I saved the day!... until the next time they open their doors at least" Anyway, a long story, but it was one of those tiny moments of victory that I thought you guys would appreciate.

It wasn't on the alerts, but there was a block circuit problem at Wall St, all the 2 and 3 trains had to AK by, which caused a logjam. they were holding trains all the way back to 110/CPN. 'twas a mess out there.

The has it's own issues, and really alterations of it wouldn't help the situation on the BMT Astoria line. They're going to need to increase service on there after dropping the from the line. Maybe they won't reinstate the W, and will instead just short turn a bunch of N trains at Whitehall so they don't have to change up signage. That might prove more confusing for passengers. Either way, I think it's a no-brainer that they're going to put something along the W's old service pattern, be it called by that name or another.

I mean this has been discussed to death - but the obvious solution would be to reactivate the to supplement the in Astoria, with it turning at Whitehall.

Due to a train with mechanical problems at Chambers St, southbound and train service is running via the line from Chambers St to South Ferry. ... that should get interesting quick. Hope they patch that up before rush hour.

The delays were due to a woman walking N/B along Track 3 north of Times Square. Yikes.

They're the very definition of governed - a computer is limiting the speed of the train at all times when ATO is in effect. Because the signaling system has precise control of the train, it doesn't need to have as wide safety margins as fixed-block signaling, and the train can operate closer to tolerances. Remember, old-school fixed block signaling is meant to be able to stop "A train at maximum speed with any semblance of functional brakes" before a collision or derailment.

And how will all those manhattan bound riders on that G during the AM rush get into town? Ferry? Don't say "Transfer to the E at queens plaza" because there isn't enough capacity on those trains in the AM. QBL is a very busy line.

No, 730 November Stillwell was stuck in the mess, looking for a lineup that wouldn't line up with that train in the way. I didn't hear the whole thing but for the time I did the tower was unable to raise the BIE train on the radio. Someone else chimed in and suggested it was a Quincy. Resolved now, it would seem.

Just heard over a radio that there's a Train BIE over the switches at Ditmars.

I mean, the Rutgers tube is underutilized, but I presume the problem here is mostly the Local Tracks at B-Way-Lafayette. Lets say dropping the from the tube brings it under capacity It might work: - Trains run in 2 sections: Between Euclid and High St. Between World Trade Center and 168 St. Trains run over the line between Jay St.- Metrotech and W4 st. Trains bypass Broadway-Lafayette. Relaying the Brooklyn section of the at High St avoids a logjam at Jay St. fumigating the trains there. High St could be run like a stub terminal. The setup of the interlockings north of Jay St. Isn't ideal for this, as Southbound trains and terminating trains would have to cross, but if timed carefully, I don't think it would be awful. Having the bypass B-Way-Laf would add a few TPH of capacity through this stretch. If dropping the from crossing the river raises capacity problems, you could do something crazy like add a service at Montague via Nassau, intending to transfer riders to a W4 - Fulton shuttle. I think the 8th Av trains would have to be on the local track way up at 23rd to get to rutgers so the express tracks would be clear to do a single track shuttle or something like that. but that starts to get stupid quickly.

Some northbound service is now running express

Bad day for the :

That's interesting. I'm surprised they wouldn't run the R full-length via bridge and have some kind of whitehall-canal shuttle. I guess that would cause capacity problems on the Manny B? Well - for me in queens, this will probably result in better R service. Lets hope they don't super-stack the GO's, because getting to-fro brooklyn is a pain for me when both the R and the G are borked. Considering the multiple "signal problems" in Montague every week, it almost assuredly is for exactly this.

I don't know for certain, but this is almost assuredly CBTC related work, which might include work on the interlockings. Do they single track all the way through the tube?

On weekends though, they stop at the yellow "OPTO S" marker, which is not always in the same place as the 6 car marker.