RestrictOnTheHanger

The magic of schedule padding

Since when has Jackson Heights Roosevelt Ave had OMNY? Smart move to install it there IMO with the hospital nearby. On a side note the rollout suspension note appears to have been removed from the OMNY site. With service and construction slowly coming back, I wonder if/when/how installation will resume.

June 6-7, the is single tracking across the Williamsburg bridge and runs every 24 mins. Usually work on the bridge results in buses.

I've been on those S stock trains and they are great on the inside. Their traction motors are very loud but thats about it. They even have selective door operation for short platforms.

Trial terminal closures to kick off the homeless?

The April NYCT board book shows that during March, a lot of GT calibrations have supposedly been done. I believe it's shown under the fast forward progress.

At 47-50 there are either 15-20mph speed signs or timers after the switch. I think it's timers, because the trains diverge faster from the express track to the 63rd st line. Its been a month or two since I've ridden through that way so I dont remember which.

Directly from https://omny.info/system-rollout OMNY installations temporarily suspended Due to the coronavirus outbreak, we are hitting pause on all OMNY installations for now. Resources are being prioritized to focus on running essential service across subway, bus, and commuter rail, and to ensure the safety and health of our installation teams.

Maybe they are fixing something on one of the mezzanines that prevents station access

I'm hoping that lower ridership helped keep the amount of death/injuries as relatively low as it was. Horrible.

No bus rides are scheduled for >2 hrs IIRC but traffic can cause one, especially on longer express routes. Tap times and locations are definitely possible with OMNY but would need an online real time device, especially since contactless debit/credit cards cant store that info locally.

I posted this before reading about the spring picks being postponed, so I wouldnt br surprised If they use the same bay right now, I'm guessing it wouldnt be an issue. Plus artics ran on the route recently.

I think either @Trainmaster5 or another employee explained a while ago why trains are generally not cut in half anymore. I think it was due to added labor time and cost to do that. Currently the late night Euclid - Lefferts shuttle is the only half length operation. The weekend was too when it only ran to Myrtle or Essex in the past. I wonder if they truly would consider some form of shortened train lengths though in the current situation

I thought there was another thread about the topic. There should also be a board summary in some past docs. Not sure which month though.

Q70 is being converted to artics in April 2020 and Woodside bound buses will use Woodside Ave instead of Roosevelt Ave. Source is NYCT board docs for the March 25th meeting

In the March 25 NYCT committee board docs, the February recap mentioned "another effort is underway to assess opportunities for increased speeds to see additional runtime benefits", pdf page 6 SPEED lives on!

Looks like that will do zero to stop jumpers

I would refill an omny using a tax free transit benefit debit card. The people who use transit benefits will be users of the omny card as well

Metrocards are not marked up in stores. The store makes a small commission selling them, which is probably less cost to the MTA than servicing the machines for those batches. I imagine it would be the same for OMNY card purchases and refills, except that there will be a new card fee charged similar to other transit systems.

Regarding London's process, contactless cards that are tapped on an inspection device will trigger a flag of some sort that charges a maximum fare at the end of the day if the card wasnt tapped in/out properly by then. Since we don't have exit fares, IMO it could be possible to have an inspection device that shows the last (if any) tap for the contactless card in real time. If not then maybe a similar situation to London where a penalty is charged after the fact. Not sure how it would work with long bus rides though.

That is what @RR503 is referring to when he says Force and Lock. Also described in my post above. It works at Church Ave because the switch in question moves all the time anyway. Going back to the DGTs though, I noticed an interesting behavior at Roosevelt Ave with the ST (Station Timers) and DGTs there during a GO. It is as follows enters on the express track, switch is set to normal, no timers active. Home signal is at stop, no route set then punches for the local and departs, switching to the local track at the prescribed speed. During this time an pulls up short of the station on ST enters on ST20s that are displayed on mid station semiautomatics (Red over lunar 20). The switch is still in the diverging position Instead of clearing to yellow, the lunar 20 becomes just a lunar ball, thus dropping to a DGT at the posted speed (lower than 20) proceeds to the end of the platform, clearing the DGTs at the slower than posted speed. Home signal is at stop. punches for the express, switch returns to normal, and the then departs. Why would this happen if the (e) following was stopped and thus supposedly clear the more restrictive DGT speed? And why are the signals allowed to drop to a more restrictive DGT aspect with a lower speed than the ST in this location? Similarly, at Forest Hills, if there is a train going into the relay with another one right behind it (stopped), couldnt the follower satisfy the lower DGT speed just byholding outside the station? Would it improve the situation to put in such logic if DGTs are really needed?

One shot DGTs (Diverging Grade Timers) are active on the local track when the switch is set for the Forest Hills relay. This causes slower speeds entering the station. Combined with high dwell time at the terminal, congestion often results. They fixed this at Church Ave on the by having the switch set to straight after each train and removing the same kind of DGTs so trains can at least enter faster.

Meant to say CBTC work related , IE did someone screw something up during work that caused a signal failure. They mentioned 2 signals malfunctioned, but my guess now is no.

CBTC related or nah? Been going on since this morning and delays are still posted at 4pm

Can anyone confirm if the speed over the switches leaving Whitehall St n/b have had their speed limit increased? Anecdotally and (w) trains seem to go faster leaving the station, even from the middle track