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4 hours ago, Rigojefte Galo said:

I don't know probably 3 weeks.

Bud youve been talking nonsense for a while chill. 

14 hours ago, BillAv said:

Is this the thing where you get "capped" after using your credit card / phone / watch a certain amount of times in a certain period?  I really don't want to have to keep track of forty to fifty additional credit card purchases a month.

Probably not. I dont think there will be fare capping. But i believe there will be batching, where all credit or debit pay as you go fares from a single day will be aggregated and charged once. At least that's how it works in London. 

Reconstruction of the archer ave tracks is going to knock out E train service on Archer ave 24/7 from 9/19 till November. Excuse the mobile formatting. 

https://new.mta.info/jamaicatrackreconstruction

Phase 1 (September 19 until November 2020): To start, we’ll need full access to the tracks. While we work, there will be no E service at Sutphin Blvd and Jamaica Center at all times.  

Phase 2 (Dates to be determined): Once we finish Phase 1, we’ll be able to bring service back at these stations but still have additional track reconstruction work to complete. While we work, E trains will run to Jamaica Center at all times but operate on a single track there. This limits the number of trains we can run so customers should expect reduced frequencies on weekdays. We will keep you posted as we finalize these plans.  

Service change and alternate travel options

There will be no E service at Sutphin Blvd-Parsons Av-JFK Airport and Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer. During these closures, J Z trains still serve these stations. The last stop on most E trains will be Jamaica-Van Wyck station.  

During weekdays, we will send some E trains to 179 St F to both prevent congestion at Jamaica-Van Wyck and increase service to nearby stations on the F. Both Sutphin Blvd and Parsons Blvd on the F line are a ten-minute walk from stations without E service. 

During rush hours, E trains will run every 8 minutes to each station. Middays and evenings they will run every 10-15 minutes. During weekends, all E trains will run to Jamaica Van Wyck every 12 minutes.   

10 hours ago, bobtehpanda said:

Generally speaking, the subway is really too crowded for anyone to be doing even proof-of-payment checks in the fare zone.

7 hours ago, Mtatransit said:

It is a way to legally evict the homeless however...

 

Fare beaters should be cited if they didn't tap in. I think this needs to happen in NYC. Subways are not that crush loaded outside of rush hours where its impossible to walk through a car. Plus they could easily do it at the station/staircase

There are plenty of spaces within paid zones to check whether someone has paid. All other transit systems with POP and inspections have made it work, no reason the MTA is special. 

Press release issued today states "Additional fare options, comparable to current 7 day and 30 day passes, will be available in the first quarter of 2021"

9 hours ago, R10 2952 said:

 

For all we know, that account might be a bot or something...

Nah probably just someone that cant write properly and obsesses over one thing (remember depotofrelax?)

4 hours ago, Rigojefte Galo said:

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Might want to work on punctuation, sentence structure, and facts there bud. 

Al Putre did a press conference today. He confirmed that the Brooklyn IRT rollout would finish and QBL "begins" this month. No new info was provided. 

This is a good time to do the work with lower ridership

18 hours ago, Jsunflyguy said:

but mostly in areas that do not affect revenue service directly.

You mean places like yards/layup tracks? Or for diverging moves over switches?

The thread has been dormant for a few months. Any news or observations on timer adjustments/speed increases from anyone who is still using the trains?

10 hours ago, Kamen Rider said:

Bad news: no new stations

 

good news:

JULY LIST

Finish the IRT

Queens Blvd line west of 71st.

(list also mentions the course line, but that’s nothing new)

The Queens Blvd line indicator on the map doesnt go all the way to Forest Hills. More like Grand Ave or Woodhaven Blvd

Though that could be an error. 

1 hour ago, CenSin said:

Kinda sucks that they wouldn’t at least try to hit 14 Street for the since there’s no service across the Williamsburg Bridge. They’ve got just about every other Broadway stop approximated otherwise:

I think the speed over the W4 switches is slower than the 47-50 switch to the 63rd st line. So it makes more sense to merge/diverge with the F there instead of W4, one less diverging move. 

Not that it can be called a true Fastrack with the nightly system shutdowns, bu there is a 4th Ave Fastrack south of 36th St for the next 3 weeks. After 1130 PM no trains running and trains run via West End with a 8 Ave-Coney Island shuttle. 

Also the weekends of 7/18 and 7/25 the is running via 6 Ave Express between Dekalb and 47/50 then via the to Lex/63rd. 

Still missing as of 7/1 afternoon

2 hours ago, R68OnBroadway said:

Did it get stuck at the bottom because it was unable to climb back up the tube?

Dont remember the cause, I dont think it got stuck like the true diesel work trains do because it moved to the yard under its own power

Sometimes a work train is just an OOS passenger train.

There was an incident earlier this year where a broken down "work train" in the 60th st tube caused extensive delays on Broadway. 

When my train was held to allow the train to enter city hall lower level yard, I saw the "work train" was an OOS R46 train. 

15 hours ago, Amtrak41 said:

An OMNY-only card does make sense for those who don't have a bank account, nor a credit card, or simply don't want to the risk of flashing their debit or credit card around in public. MTA cannot require you to have a bank account or smartphone to use the system.

14 hours ago, Amtrak41 said:

If poor enough to be unbanked, they may also be too poor to have a Smartphone and pay for Data. I have plenty of senior relatives who love their Jitterbug dumb phone, and if given a Smartphone, wouldn't know how to use its features, and will never got on-line with it. 

There will be a physical OMNY card available. No one will be forced to use a contactless bank card or smartphone. Such card could be loaded online or with cash/debit/credit when rplacement vending machines and retail networks are rolled out. It will not be necessary to have an online account either. 

Look at how London's Oyster network is set up, ours will be almost exactly the same, but with no exit fare or capping. 

11 hours ago, rbrome said:

Huh. I'm not 100% sure how to interpret this statement: 

"Virtual OMNY Card will not be deployed. Similar functionality is accessible in commercial digital wallets." 

At first glance, I took it to mean that you'll no longer be able to put an OMNY card in your Apple Wallet or Google Pay wallet. That they'd rely solely on the "Time Based Linked products" instead. 

But another interpretation is that they've ditched some relatively proprietary solution they were working on (perhaps as a part of the OMNY app), in favor of the more-standardized transit pass solutions offered by Apple and Google for their digital wallet products. 

That's how I read it too at first but your point makes more sense. Some other transit agencies currently allow for their card to be set up in Google and/or Apple pay. 

On 6/20/2020 at 11:23 PM, Deucey said:

Easier to inspect and repair; less drag from atmosphere, easier to clean, and they stop folks from leaning on them - which lowers the repair frequency and makes boarding/alighting faster since folks aren't crowding them.

Edit: found the answer to my original question. 

New question: But how do external doors stop people from leaning on them? When I was riding London's Central Line on vacation, their 1992 stock has external doors (all trains produced since then do). The doors on that specific stock are hooked up to a sensor and when people lean on them, the train jerks and cuts traction power while leaving a station until the person stops leaning. 

Judging by how often this happened, I wouldnt say that people lean less on exterior doors. 

32 minutes ago, BM5 via Woodhaven said:

LOCAL TO EXPRESS  Posted: 06/21/2020 11:08PM

34 St-bound trains are running on the express track from 74 St - Broadway to Queensboro Plaza while emergency teams respond to someone who was struck by a train at Queensboro Plaza.

For service to/from the bypassed stations, take a Main St-bound train.

*34 St-bound  trains will arrive on the Main St-bound track at Queensboro Plaza and Court Sq.
 

Good thing CBTC allows for bidirectional running on the HPA to QBP segment.

But isnt there a crossover before QBP that will allow trains to not have to run express from 74th? Unless the incident is fouling the crossover or the power is cut I guess. 

I think the use case was going to be those who wanted a digital only card. Again given that contactless credit and debit cards will later be able to be linked to an OMNY account, the digital only card doesnt make sense

Speaking from experience, the digital card wouldnt offer any advantage to transit benefit users like myself. 

The future accomodations for transit benefits will probably be some combination of the following, based on other transit agencies' setups (in my opinion)

1. Direct administrator load to OMNY account, with the user possibly having to get an OMNY card if they want one.  Remember that registered users will have balances and products in an account, not (just) a card. (Like PATH, DC Metro, Chicago)

2. Use of existing TB debit cards to load accounts online (like Easypay Metrocard but better) or at a vending machine

3. Contactless TB debit cards that can be associated with an OMNY account or used for pay per ride, both scenarios the card is used directly at OMNY readers

4. (Unlikely) distribution of OMNY cards by the administrator that come loaded with value or time, much like today's metrocards. 

36 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:

However, this does raise a question as to what will do with the Carnarsie-CBTC equipped R160's since they won't be compatible with QBL-CBTC.

The potential overlap is limited to potential sharing of the 8 car 160s between the and . Does the currently have any ENY based 160s?

There is a good amount of info in this month's capital program committee book

One tidbit is that there will no longer be a virtual OMNY card (one that can be loaded into Apple or Google Pay and used in lieu of a physical OMNY card or other payment card). 

I wonder if that feature would have been used much anyway given contactless and mobile wallet (credit/debit) capabilities. Also the fact that a time based pass will be able to be accessed with any payment instrument linked to an OMNY account

https://new.mta.info/document/17896

For those of you that follow the NYCT Twitter and know about their follower CLINTON, he's getting more famous lol

Part of solving Roosevelt is not just the dwell times, but the STs (or CBTC equivalent). Those are still a problem, even after the interlocking/station was resignalled a few years ago