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They don't have to as long as they keep only one set on each track. It's how the R211 can test on the middle track on Sea Beach and the R179 ran back and forth testing on Brighton.

IIRC the Not In Service signs on the garbage train R42s are inserted paper cards that are indeed copies of what appears on the R68 rolls

They don't have enough buses to do an Atlantic-Coney Island shuttle bus. Traffic on Flatbush between Grand Army Plaza and Atlantic makes it virtually impossible to do it in under an hour each way which means you'd need like 50 buses out there minimum (not counting buses already at each terminal.)

No point in doing that when you can just standardize equipment with Queens Blvd and Culver

From Novabus: https://novabus.com/blog/2022/10/18/new-york-state-metropolitan-transportation-authority-mta-orders-five-lfse-the-100-battery-electric-bus-model-of-nova-bus/ "Plattsburgh, United States, October 18, 2022 — Nova Bus, a member of the Volvo Group and a leading North American transit bus manufacturer, is delighted to announce it has been awarded a contract for five LFSe+, the 40’ long-range 100% battery electric bus model of Nova Bus, by the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The first delivery is expected by the fourth quarter of 2023. The buses will be assembled at the Nova Bus facility in Plattsburgh, New York State."

Dispatch will tell you when to put up those PR codes over the radio/Clever Devices

On a side note, it wouldn't surprise me if CIY does this with the and on weekends once the gets techs for 6th Av CBTC.

A combination of vandalism and the components failing

Assuming 1:1 replacement of R46s on both the and , that leaves 92 R179s assigned to the , which divided by 8 is 11.5; 11.5 times 10 is 115. By that same method, 268 R68s at Concourse divided by 8 is 33.5; 33.5 times 10 is 335. The is a little trickier but assuming a similar spare factor as the (268/232=1.16), 6 trains of R68s + 19 trains of R68As is 25 trains times 1.16 is 29 trains, and we can round that up to a nice even 30 trains and 300 cars, cascading R160s from Jamaica. Of course with the trains set aside in the R211 options for fleet expansion, I'd expect all three yards (Concourse, Pitkin and Jamaica) to have more cars; these are just minimum figures.

By my (rough) calculations, the would require the first 115 cars of option 1 to become 100% ten car trains. The remainder of option 1 and option 2 can then displace R68s on the to the and R160s on the to the (to then move over its R68/As), with additional cars for fleet expansion at all 3 yards. The R179s from the and the 4 car R211 sets in option 2 can then bolster the fleet.

Thank you, they look great!

Could I get two station signs and an entrance sign please: Downtown (teal 8) 2 Av Local to Hanover Sq, all times Uptown & the Bronx (teal 8) 3 Av Local via 2 Av to Gun Hill Rd, all times and in the style of this sign: 55 Street (teal 8) Subway Station via passageway Thanks!

I rode an R179 on the where this happened. The conductor isolated a car because it lost indication at Fulton Street and kept the train moving after that.

They'll give the go ahead for Kawasaki to ship production cars after the pilot set passes its 30 day test

That was the pilot, this is now full rollout

That's basically what they are. They call them the so someone doesn't get on thinking they can go to Brooklyn.

Can I get three Hanover signs please? 1. B51 CITY HALL PARK ROW VIA SMITH ST VIA MANHATTAN BRG 2. B61 WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE PLAZA VIA VN BRUNT/COLUMBIA VIA NAVY YARD 3. B77 RED HOOK CONOVER ST VIA 9 ST VIA IKEA TERM

7979 at the vendor. Should be headed to Ulmer Park.

I could see them replacing the M101 with a full time M98, but I think that's a bit of an extreme solution

If anything, the M98 should be re-extended back to 34th Street. It clearly serves a purpose.

The specific chemistry of the battery is the issue here. Lithium-ion (aka Li-ion) batteries have issues with high air and surface temperatures, however I will note that the lower power density lithium iron phosphate (aka LiFePO4) batteries in modern trolleybuses for off wire use don't have the same problem because their chemistry is different. I would suggest that agencies look towards using in-motion charging trolleybuses, stringing up overhead wires where many routes cross or share the same street (Flushing, Ridgewood and Downtown Brooklyn come to mind) to charge the (less likely to catch fire and lighter weight) onboard LiFePO4 batteries for the rest of the route off wire, while moving.

Yes that's correct. They never actually got around to drafting specs for that work due to the pandemic.

They're referring to the R142/As as "older cars" in that document.

Both R211 options are now funded in the new Capital Program Amendment (page 109) https://new.mta.info/document/91711 Given the CBTC news today, I think its almost certain that they'll be running on the with occasional appearances on the and

What on earth are you talking about? Weekend ridership is already poised to match or even surpass 2019 by the end of the year and weekdays are routinely hitting ~60% of 2019 levels and will probably hit 70% maybe even 80% by the end of the year. Many individual stations are hitting 80%-90% of 2019 ridership daily. This idea that the subway isn't busy anymore is nonsense. Not to mention the R46s and our ancient signal systems are literally dying as we speak. These projects are of paramount importance. This, all of this.