HenryB

many 8ave IND local stations are bi-level and look like this

----platform----[northbound local][northbound express]

----platform----[southbound local][southbound express]

(i might switch the direction but you get the idea)

On 1/10/2023 at 11:40 PM, Vulturious said:

I'm very disappointed that the project is moving forward with Light Rail, I mean I shouldn't be surprised in the slightest. However, the project is on the more expensive side, yet another thing I shoudn't be surprised about, but it doesn't really make sense. That budget seems to be too high, cost per rider is much higher than the SAS iirc. A lot of the wrong steps are being taken here, only thing I'm hoping from here on is the MTA looks at other examples of Light Rail everywhere else. Still very disappointed, oh well.

i hope they change their minds. Light rail option kills the possibilities of extending service elsewhere via LIRR/MNR

well...no one thinks of PSD?

any news on airtrain stations getting OMNY?

I visited NY last month. For many people who don't visit the city in months like me, we definitely don't have metrocards in our wallets.

OMNY would be very handy but airtrain stations among the last to get OMNY lol 🙈

22 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:

Would it make sense in order to save money on the budget, to convert the R211S order into regular R211's and send them to NYCT, and send the best R46's to SIR to replace the R44's?

The R46 won't last very long. Even R68 won't work coz they aren't going to last too (unless they decided to overhaul them when they turned 25 yr-old, but  missed it)

sending R143/R160 to SIR might work tho

a side note: trains with external doors are in theory safer to operate with PSD (less space to have stuffs trapped between the train and platform doors)

doors on the s-stocks are sliding on the outsie of the car

IMO the first phase could be creating a  branch to brooklyn college

Next step? Let see if  goes bankrupt after finished the first phase 😴

On 1/26/2020 at 4:19 AM, Around the Horn said:

According to people who have ridden open gangway trains in Toronto and across Europe, this actually isn't a problem since the open gangway actually allows for more fresh air to enter the affected car.

make sense because you hv more ac units (2 vs 10) to handle the smell lol

imagine next time a show about the Bronx:

"yo this is the bronx bound  train. Welcome to the bronx m**th**f**ker" 😂

any news on JFK AirTrain getting OMNY?

I think there is one of the places need OMNY the most, since not everyone traveling from outside of NYC has metrocard 😴 

It would be a maintenance nightmare to have R188s with two very different propulsions  (decades apart....)

Not the case for R262 vs R188/R142

On 5/24/2019 at 2:21 PM, BMTKateMeltonLine said:

Is the R262s are get the same sound like R142A & 143 on the L line?

 

 

Who knows. They might use a different model of inverter on the 262s.

Bad odors from the bodies are manageable in open gangway cars, but NOT with cars full of trash.... 😂

I guess the homeless people in the clip were practicing how to make the entire train smell bad when open gangway train began service (jk)

Seriously, I really don't wanna that becomes a reason (or excuse?) we can't have nice stuffs. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

16 hours ago, subwayfan1998 said:

 

At Least those trains look New, Clean and NTTs unlike the R68s and R62s suppose to be NTTs.

Simple. You could just wrap the interiors like what they did for R62 in times sq . But does it mean "compatible with the modern world" to you? 😒

30+ years old trains are common around the world, and can be compatible with the modern world...

....if they received midlife refurbishment

For examples, C151 in Singapore have similar age to R68; Some M Stock in Hong Kong have ages of R46.

But their interiors have better shapes than some of our NTTs lol

It is too late to do retrofits on R68s and R62 now. MTA missed the opportunity to do that 10 years ago.

On 4/26/2019 at 9:05 PM, subwayfan1998 said:

I Hate these Crappy R62s Trains, when they stop it makes my ear explode.

Some R62s are indeed crappy, but not because of that minor "issue" 🤦‍♂️

What make those R62s crappy are their HVAC units 

.....maybe 70s but definitely not ww2 lol

R68/R68a aren't that old. They look old because they didn't receive retrofits when they hit 15-20 years old.

On 2/19/2019 at 1:41 AM, engineerboy6561 said:

And here's a sample image of that same viaduct loaded up in a four-track configuration, with 12'6" track centers to accommodate B division trains (and a sample B division train placed on it for scale in SketchUp; something like this would be pretty easy to build overtop the Park Av viaduct. Yeah, the MTA is probably bad enough at making the necessary arrangements that this is unlikely, but if we built out structures like this to replace old els on say the  or the  everyone would be much happier . For reference, the width on this between the widest points is 61'6" carrying four tracks, so you could run it down Roosevelt Av or Jamaica Av/Broadway fairly comfortably.

👍👍

maybe it could also have noise barriers? 

On 1/1/2019 at 11:04 AM, Around the Horn said:

If only there was a way to retrofit existing NTTs with open gangways...

I don't know if anyone else in the world has done that successfully yet. It would be a great capacity boost for Lex and QBL anyway. 

doesn't seem too diffcult since the car end doors on NTTs are quite wide. But don't expect the modified gangways will be as wide as the pre-builts.  

.....not to mention oders diffuse, and each car has 2 HVAC units to handle that so it should be a problem 🤦‍♂️

10 hours ago, R68OnBroadway said:

So we may end up with only 20 while other cities have had this technology for nearly 10 years? How long will it take until we learn that we need to catch up?

***  >30 years.....🤭

I have a question.....does that mean  could remove those freaking timers after ATS installation?  

23 hours ago, Fan Railer said:

http://web.mta.info/mta/news/books/pdf/180122_1400_CPOC.pdf

http://web.mta.info/mta/news/books/pdf/180122_1030_Transit.pdf

(From the first doc) I think we are doing to get an extra set of open gangway prototype unless that was just a typo.

any news on winter weather service change for tomorrow?