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    Off-topic Random Thoughts Thread

    in Off Topic Lounge

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    "Eduard Nogay, the Fort Hamilton HS volleyball player who persevered through a sarcoma that led to the amputation of his right arm and caused his lungs to collapse twice before he helped the Tigers reach the semifinals of the PSAL playoffs, died shortly after midnight Tuesday morning, his coach said.

    Monday was Nogay's 18th birthday.

    Nogay had been at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan since May 19 after a low hemoglobin level left him anemic. He was receiving blood transfusions daily and had a tube into his lungs through his stomach draining bloody fluid following his most recent lung collapse in April.

    Nogay was surrounded by his family, his three best friends and his volleyball coaches when he passed."


    Eduard ,even though I never met him was a constant second thought in the hearts of us fellow students at the Fort and it is with great sadness that I type this...
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    SUBWAY - Random Thoughts Topic

    in New York City Subway

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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 (7). 

     

    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. 

    S--T got me weak!

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    BUS - Random Thoughts Thread

    in New York City Bus

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    I really wonder why the (MTA) cant put those 5400 D60HF's in storage on the :bus_bullet_b1::bus_bullet_b9::bus_bullet_b35::bus_bullet_b35_ltd: and  :bus_bullet_b63:  routes.Rode a :bus_bullet_b9: today,two showed up at the same time and according to the BO's were scheduled to do so...One was packed with about 65 people crammed on one bus and the one behind had only 5 people...Saw the :bus_bullet_b1: load up at 4th and 86th...seemed the normal 60-70 people...next one didnt come for 30 minutes when there seemed to be 90-100 people waiting...Rode the :bus_bullet_b63: today also 60-70 people and the :bus_bullet_b35_ltd: also looked SRO at 5th and 39th both ways.I really think artics can help these routes immensly...

    It happened again today...if anything the 86th crosstown route should get artics at the current frequency...

     

    The B9 doesn't need artics, it just needs buses spaced apart more evenly. All artics do is justify making headways longer b/w buses. Even the B41, which probably could use artics, shouldn't get them because the bunching north or Nostrand ave is just terrible. There's no reason to put artics everywhere because they should/could be put there.

    At least the :bus_bullet_b1: should get them...

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    BUS - Random Thoughts Thread

    in New York City Bus

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    I really wonder why the (MTA) cant put those 5400 D60HF's in storage on the :bus_bullet_b1::bus_bullet_b9::bus_bullet_b35::bus_bullet_b35_ltd: and  :bus_bullet_b63:  routes.Rode a :bus_bullet_b9: today,two showed up at the same time and according to the BO's were scheduled to do so...One was packed with about 65 people crammed on one bus and the one behind had only 5 people...Saw the :bus_bullet_b1: load up at 4th and 86th...seemed the normal 60-70 people...next one didnt come for 30 minutes when there seemed to be 90-100 people waiting...Rode the :bus_bullet_b63: today also 60-70 people and the :bus_bullet_b35_ltd: also looked SRO at 5th and 39th both ways.I really think artics can help these routes immensly...

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    Brooklyn Division Bus Proposals/Ideas

    in New York City Bus

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    I'd like to make a modification to the plan above, with the following:

     

    B24: Williamsburg branch cut, Greenpoint branch combined with B32.

    B32: Combined with Greenpoint branch of B24.

    B40: New route, via New York, Nostrand, and Marcy Avenues, between Greenpoint @ Nassau Street/Meeker Avenue and Flatbush/Nostrand Avs.

    B48: Rerouted via BQE to Sunnyside along former B24 Williamsburg branch.

    B71: New route, between Canarie and Carroll Gardens via Empire Blvd.

     

    Also, here is the map of these changes, or at least some of the confusing ones:

     

    http://goo.gl/maps/P0qZC

    http://goo.gl/maps/RuiKZ 

    Lovin everything except the B31 turnaround in Bay Ridge,that road that goes around Owls(Shore Road then Wakeman Place & Colonial Road is passenger cars only,not in service buses...Id have the B31 make a left on Colonial Road travel on Colonial to 86th and loop on 86th,Narrows and 85th...

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    BUS - Random Thoughts Thread

    in New York City Bus

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    I've seen buses from Jamaica, Queens Village, Casey Stengel, College Point, East New York, Fresh Pond, Flatbush, Jackie Gleason, Ulmer Park and Michael J. Quill doing the (A) Shuttle Bus

    Did UP put out mostly Xcelsiors on those shuttles because B64 trips that used to always be Xcelsiors had RTS's instead;now I notice the Xcelsiors returning to their normal runs...

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