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Do you think the redesign is dead? That is my bet.

Where would NICE go?

They are renovating 165th, not closing it. By through-routing routes on either side of 165th, the terminal can be renovated. http://web.mta.info/capitaldashboard/allframenew_head.html?PROJNUM=t6120420&PLTYPE=1&DISPLAYALL=Y Project: T6120420 Description: Jamaica Bus Terminal Category: Depots Element: Depot Improvements xxxxxxxxxx ... This project will support efforts to reconfigure the Jamaica bus terminal located in Queens. The existing terminal is shared by NYC Transit, MTA Bus, and Long Island Bus. The reconstruction will improve pedestrian and passenger safety by eliminating bus back-up moves in the terminal and controlling pedestrian traffic in the terminal area; this work will be addressed in a future capital program.

You can email him with corrections. I have emailed him things that he has corrected.

Lies. There won't be an increase in scheduled service, but there will be an increase in actual throughput, with an actual 30 TPH running vs. the ~26 that run during a normal rush hour. Unless the agency moves to increase schedule resolution to every 5 seconds, the scheduling won't really work out.

@MHV9218 This is an image of the passageway to 175th Street. The sign looks like it is relatively recent. Does this look like it is from the 1990s to you?

I was furious that that was voted down.

https://www1.nyc.gov/html/brt/downloads/pdf/bx-cb1-projects-may2020.pdf East 149th St Bus Priority Improvements

Another great breaking story by Dana Rubinstein, now at the Times! This is amazing. I am so glad that he got the post. He will do a lot to help their system, and will show use what we missed. Even more amazing, he will show what can be done when transportation (bus, rail, streets) are all done under one roof, being that of a city. I wish he would have come back, but I am so so happy for him. He deserved this. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/nyregion/andy-byford-mta-london.html By Dana Rubinstein May 27, 2020 Updated 9:09 a.m. ET New York City’s former subway chief, Andy Byford, won’t be returning to New York City after all. Instead he is going back to the European city where his transit career began. On Wednesday, the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, confirmed Mr. Byford’s appointment as commissioner for Transport for London, the agency that runs that city’s sprawling subway, bus, and road system. “I am delighted to be taking up the role of Commissioner and to have been chosen to lead the organization where I started my transport career over 30 years ago,” Mr. Byford said. Major transit agencies in London, New York and elsewhere around the world have seen their ridership and revenues plunge as the coronavirus pandemic prompted stay-at-home orders and people avoided subways and buses. Now, as the pandemic eases its grip in many places, transit agencies face the challenge of regaining the confidence of riders and finding ways to protect the public’s health. Mr. Byford, one of the most revered transit leaders in recent memory, left the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in January, after clashing repeatedly with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. Critics faulted Mr. Cuomo for failing to embrace the man he had hired to run the foundering system. But Mr. Cuomo’s allies faulted Mr. Byford for not doing more to find a way to get along with the governor, who controls the system. At the time of his resignation, Mr. Byford said he would like to remain in New York, a city he had grown to love. Mr. Byford had already worked as a top official transit official in London in the years before coming to New York. He was credited with helping improve subway service in New York, including on-time performance, after Mr. Cuomo had declared a state of emergency. “Andy Byford did wonders for New York and put us on a track that will serve us well for a generation,” said Danny Pearlstein, the policy and communications director for Riders Alliance, an advocacy group. “London is very lucky to have him.” Mr. Byford is scheduled to start his new post on June 29.

I have been on that trail. I have entered on the GCP side. You can get a great view of all the yard tracks by walking along the fence (within the park). I got a picture of an R42 with a broke window there a few years back.

The middle seats on trains are never used. Eliminating the seat cushion on the aisle seat didn't do anything. In addition, dwell times are ridiculously high because it takes forever to get add. Add people's unwillingness to be on public transit in years to come due to COVID.

I am glad that they are being smart.

EXiX8agWoAECyDo by Union Turnpike, on Flickr

https://twitter.com/pete_manhattan/status/1258923170784063489

@Around the Horn Here are some stringlines of the subway "shutdown". Yeah, trains are not starting at Houston Street "Shutdown" by Union Turnpike, on Flickr trains are not starting at 103rd "Shutdown" by Union Turnpike, on Flickr s are not starting at Halsey "Shutdown" by Union Turnpike, on Flickr s are not starting at Newkirk Plaza "Shutdown" by Union Turnpike, on Flickr s are not starting at 25th Street "Shutdown" by Union Turnpike, on Flickr There is not an shuttle between 86th Street and Coney Island "Shutdown" by Union Turnpike, on Flickr And, no, trains are not starting at Park Place "Shutdown" by Union Turnpike, on Flickr

Stringline_Northbound_E_Train_4Hours_5-6-2020_4-53-21-AM by Union Turnpike, on Flickr

We’re dramatically increasing bus service to make sure essential workers like you can still get where you need to go in a reasonable amount of time. We’ve added 344 buses to the 235 that already run overnight. Those new buses will make 1,168 additional bus trips on 61 routes: 13 local routes with new overnight service 37 local routes with enhanced overnight service 11 interborough express routes with new overnight service All bus service between 1:00 AM and 5:00 AM will be fare-free Here are the numbers on increased service from an email.

This is what I added to Wikipedia after looking at the "Archer Avenue Corridor Transit Service Proposal" document from Operations Planning: It was decided that the E would serve Archer Avenue, rather than the F, to minimize disruption to passengers who continued to use Hillside Avenue; to maximize Jamaica Avenue ridership; and to take advantage of the length of the peak ridership period, which is longer on the F. It was found that most riders using bus routes that now served Archer Avenue used the E, while most passengers on buses to 179th Street used the F

It was initially a short-term terminal for additional Sixth Avenue service through the Chrystie Street Connection and the new Sixth Avenue express tracks. Before the extension to 57th was built, there was a provision in the tunnel for a northward expansion.

@Trainmaster5 I was doing more research for my list of closed subway entrances and found this post of yours, in which you described the Junius Street exits. What yearr would you say that the Junius Street exits were removed? Thanks.

Great catch!

Those signs are c.1985.

This is idiotic.