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Why Kings Highway instead of Brighton Beach?

So send the local from 125. They do it all the time. It makes absolutely no sense why you would instead send the up the Concourse and extend the to 207. That's a much better plan for your bus route. Although I can't recall there ever being a time where the entire bridge was closed to both vehicle and subway traffic.

If the can run to 207, why can't the ? This GO makes absolutely no sense. Don't even get me started on how little sense it makes to send a shuttle bus to the SPUYTEN DUYVIL MNRR station, especially if it's only to get customers to Marble Hill. You have obviously never driven to Spuyten Duyvil, which is an extremely unfriendly station for bus traffic, and there is no direct route from the Henry Hudson bridge to that station. You are also going to piss off every rider who is trying to get to Broadway since making that Spuyten Duyvil stop is going to add at least 15 extra minutes to their bustitution. At least run shuttle buses that go directly to Broadway! Oh and regarding that other GO you posted, why would you call a service between Queens Plaza and Jamaica Center the instead of the ????

Roosevelt Island has neither a dispatcher office or a crew facility. Where are these crews supposed to take their lunch or comfort when they get to Roosevelt Island?

Gonna have to suspend service or extend to Bedford Park all day if you want the to end at 145. Also, Roosevelt Island isn't a terminal, why wouldn't you send the to 21-QB?

....and how are you going to turn service at Chambers? The only way that could reasonably be done is if JH1&3 got restored, and trains would have to relay into those tracks. If IF that were done, those relays would interfere with both north and southbound service, which makes a rather slow move across the switches north of Chambers. Nevermind that if you sent the to Chambers, it would have to use 8 car trains. A better solution would be to send the to Essex and have it turn on the J3-4 track in the station.

Conductors: You are given a radio for a reason. Learn how to use it. Don't wait for your partner to answer if the train is moving. My #1 peeve as a Train Operator was when I had a conductor who was afraid to use their radio. My #1 peeve as a dispatcher is conductors who refuse to answer the radio because they think only T/O's are supposed to answer. Also learn how to read the air gauge. It will let you know what is going on up front. Do not close the doors at a terminal if the train isn't charged yet! Train Operators: I must emphasize this again. Do not UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES operate a train with customers on board while in YX. You are there to move out of service trains only.

Hey guys just a friendly reminder that when you are in the YX program, you are not to operate a train with customers on board UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

The list exists and there have already been a couple of classes (permanent, not provisional) off of it. Including one I'm in!

List was established at end of June and the first class from it started this Monday. Up to #26

I'll say it again, I don't see anyone campaigning to close Wall St on the and that's the same distance from Fulton and Bowling Green that 18 is from 23 and 14 on the

18th on the and are two completely different situations. 18th on the was closed because 14th St's downtown platform is completely above 14th St, and when the platforms were extended to 10 cars, it made the stations way too close to each other. 14th St on the was planned as a 10 car platform when it was first built and was placed completely south of 14th St in order to evenly space out the distance between it and 18. I go through 18th St 3 times a day in both directions, and it ALWAYS has ridership. It makes no sense to close this station. If you're in such a rush, walk down to 14th and take the or !

There are stations in our system which are closer than 14-18-23 on the . Yet I don't hear anyone calling for the closing of Wall St on the and and have people just walk to Fulton or Bowling Green. And 33-28-23 on the is even less distance than 14-18-23 on the is but nobody's demanding we close 28 St and make people walk the extra 4 blocks. I'm convinced the only reason anyone on this forum really wants to close 18th on the is that they don't like the idea that it's the only line that has an 18th St stop and want the map to be symmetrical.

Plenty of people use all 3 of these stations. I swear the biggest goal on this forum (aside from getting something, ANYTHING to run through the Nassau cut again) is to close 18th St on the .....

Yes those last 15 cars were OOS for a good 6 months. One of them was even being scrapped for spare parts. Mosholu wouldn't accept them when they took the other units, not that they could even make the trip without being horsed. I haven't worked Westchester or the in quite a while so I'm not sure what the current story is with them except they appear to have them running and are now making sure that they're in good shape before getting transferred. I've been operating the in ATPM for a couple weeks now and it's no problem for me.....those who spent their whole career working the 62As might need some adjustment. I know some just chose to flee the line rather than Can't Believe This Crap.

Automatic Train Protection Mode. Wayside Signal Protection. That 142A on the is undergoing 30 day testing before Mosholu will accept it.

These intervals no longer exist. There's a 5:21 and a 5:38 out of Flatbush to Nereid and those are the final two. As I already stated in this thread, if the crews that make those intervals come down late, they will also go back up late. The Dyre line is going to be bustified for the next 3 weekends. However, the GO states this is for track replacement. The signal work is pretty much done on that line now.

No joke. the line is now operating in CBTC ATPM mode 24/7 between Main St and Woodside-61, and in WSP from Woodside to 34-Hudson Yards. No exceptions will be made except in a CBTC zone controller failure, which means that ONLY CBTC-equipped trains can operate there during normal service, and only CBTC-qualified train operators may work the line. The last sets of R62A's were transferred to Westchester Yard last night.

Yes. It's constantly being used. 239 Yard has one of the busiest car washes. They have trains all coming up there to wash, and they need to get stacked on the middle track to wait their turn to enter the yard.

You'll see a late evening to Nereid if that's a crew that finishes at 239 Yard and were delayed getting down to Brooklyn earlier in the day. You can't send Dyre crews to 239 if they have additional trips to make, because they won't have sufficient time to do the layup and then get from 239 to Dyre in time for their next trip. 239 yard needs to have a certain number of sets in order to make up proper service the next morning, so if 239 never got a set from their scheduled interval, then a later interval will run.

There shouldn't be any AM problems at E180 unless a Nereid and a Dyre arrive at the same time. The uses B lead during the AM rush so that it leaves tk 2 available to both services. A and a Dyre can both come into E180 at the same time with no interference. PMs is another story. At the least, if a and a Nereid arrive at the same time, make the connection and then the can stay in the middle to Gun Hill.

Going, going and GONE! Corona is now 100% R188.

Wallyhorse, always good for a laugh. If 145 on the hasn't been extended yet, don't count on ANYTHING ELSE getting extended. They'd do the line way before they'd even consider doing the or ..... and even if you had 600 ft platform at Essex St, that still doesn't take into consideration that 75 ft cars can't use the Chrystie St connector to get there, so you can forget about the or terminating at Essex (and why bother when 2 Av makes a perfectly fine terminal?), which leaves just the which can already platform at Essex just fine.

The and the are the same line, just a different stopping pattern. If they have it running during rush hour, there's a good chance. What I want to know is WHO is gonna be operating these trains? To my knowledge, there's been no qualification classes on them yet, at least for Train Operators & Conductors who work the line.

You've had a decade of riding the R9 to Queens Plaza (anyone else remember the first year when it went all the way to Continental?). 96 St is MUCH MUCH more viable a destination for tourists and shoppers. The only reason it went to Queens at all is because there's no good place to turn it in midtown Manhattan without interfering with regular service.