Jsunflyguy

It was 1000% the TO, name and face is known. The stories are conflating the Conductor of the burned train and the rescue train which is muddying the waters.

Ow my arm, the mean Conductor closed the door on me. It hurts. And even with local recycle a drag is still possible so there'd have to be some mitigation before that could be implemented

Conductors, no. As far as OPTO t/o aren't trained and sight lines in certain stations are questionable as it pertains to safely operating the doors

Yeah doubt it, any scenario that doesn't result in us all dying will allow you and others who are inclined to apathy to declare victory. If the curve does get flattened cases and deaths will be low and a lot of ignorant people will simply say 'see, it wasn't so bad'. A majority of people will not be tested even after known personal exposure and the correct constellation of symptoms, so the known case number is already artificially suppressed; of those people that pass not all will be attributed to the virus. But feel free to post how you think things will play out with some metrics if you're confident in your position.

Someone did the math about who the previous Tw/O had been in contact with a reckon.

Frankly, the MTA spent too much time doing the opposite when they were compelling people to work when they were sick, preventing people from taking precautions to protect themselves or making employees work in areas inhabited by people that had positive results. Just because people aren't dropping like Flies doesn't mean the risk isn't serious, Italy had that same attitude in regards to not 'panicking' over 'slight' illness...and right now their country is melting before our eyes. If this is what it takes to prevent my neighbors from suffering the same fate then so be it and if a few dozen people have to take the Q112 from Rockaway Blvd then OH WELL, BOO HOO.

Then people will just cry that they're being herded in like cattle during Corona virus.

I hear dwell times have been phenomenal lately.

I always thought I was imagining the when driving by.

Jamaica, being built as a short-line location and not a terminal cannot support and , in fact during the Rush it can't even support all the service, partly the reason for the Hillside . Also New Yorkers have a well documented history of the express train-dive, all the Hillside people forced onto the will simply run over to the and pack those trains making them even more crowded. There is also the matter of putting all of the East Queens Riders onto the local will cause a ridership shift on the Buses which may not be absorbable by the current surface network and is generally an election loser for anyone within a 3 vote radius of the idea. Things that raise capacity: 1) Loops 2) Adequate crew facilities 3) Cooperative ridership 4) Low-conflict routes for trains entering/leaving service. 5) Reliable enroute service (no brainer) 6) Resilient route structure, for example the QBL should have a crossover for Exp-Local & Local-Exp so that one intransigent passenger doesn't nuke service. There are enough a**holes in New York that this is a persistent vulnerability.

Don't be so sure, between GCT, NYK, HPA and 4 electrified tracks at LIC it's not beyond imagination that through service to ATL will be done.

For the low-low price of an east end Diesel facility, 4 extra tracks in Speonk yard, double track to Smithtown you can bring the Diesel Branches to half hourly services. Write you Senator, checks in an unmarked envelope please.

There is no out east spare factor to speak of, generally the Railroad doesn't have extra crews and cars laying around. In order to even have the equipment to do such a thing you would essentially be stealing from scheduled trains. Given that Speonk would be the nearest Diesel terminal there are no crews on duty except the ones for regular service.

Because people who live out East will have a conniption if they get any hint that "those" people are getting fare cuts to ride "their" trains. Americans need to feel like they're getting ahead and doing better than somebody else, so the idea of someone paying less for the service they rely on is anathema.

The opposite of it is, 'I can tell you to do anything, of course you ran that for me', or more disappointingly...one hand washes the other but when it's time to reciprocate suddenly there's no soap.

I think Divide and Nassau are next to go to the Theater sometime this year, haven't been in there in a while but that's what I heard.

The goal should be to do the maximum amount of good for the maximum amount of people; also the Tower at Utica is closed outside of GOs, so until you can scramble someone out there, that isn't viable. This is why service is was cut at Broadway Junction.

Yeah, now you sign in and out, the will have its pound of flesh. Oh well, just cogs now. The question is *which* passengers should come first. To the passengers who already boarded north of W4th, you may very well be a hero. But the Major draws on the line are Hoyt, Utica, B'way Jct. A double shuttle can't be run since the switches at Lafayette are locked out, so no trains are circulating at all between B'way Jct and Hoyt-Schermerhorn. Utica is the most popular stop on the entire line because of bus connections, mainly going south. Franklin is people looking for the shuttle for the same reason. Bway Jct and East are people for ENY. If you send trains to Bway Jct on the you'll very quickly have half the trains available on an adventure on the Jamaica EL, which is royally screwing everyone in Brooklyn hoping for service to resume. Better for every one to run the trains into Brooklyn so people can get the at Jay St or the so they can still catch the B46, etc etc at Fulton which will give most people the flexibility they need to get around the problem. It's unrealistic to expect the B25 to be able to cope with trainloads of people, and I think a lot of customers instinctively know not to try to grab the B25 in this case...at least not at Jay St Dispatchers also have an implicit responsibility to save the company money, so littering the railroad with trains and sending crews to out of the way locations only for them to have to run lite or deadhead around the system is going to cost money, and cause headlines such as 'MTA pays train crew to just ride subway, look how much overtime they're making' etc etc. There's really no justification to sending the to Bway Junction, the options been there for 50 years and it hasn't been done for a reason. As for Passengers coming first, sure. It still needs to be borne in mind employee morale and fatigue are still real things, Aviation learned this the hard way and made a lot of corpses doing it where everything was go-go-go and you as a crew member don't have any recourse if you're physically unfit/unwell from spending 6-8 straight hours in the cab. Fatigue is a rather insidious thing, it generally doesn't get you right away few days of being stranded will get to you. If the system were in the habit of just lobbing trains at random terminals constantly there'd be a lot of problems relating to fatigue.

Think of the downsides: Situation, 12-9 145LL local track. Possibly down 1 train and crew if not, definitely a crew and train. Options turn at BPK or turn at 168 it is a 19 minute trip to BPK, plus a few minutes to change ends, and 19 minutes back down. So the train behind the next incident will take *40 minutes* to get back into action at 145th, which equates to 4 missed intervals. So the will run local which means they slow down and interfere with the at Dekalb and so on. 145 to 168 is 4 minutes each way, plus a 5 minute relay, which can be expedited by relay crews already in place, so we have an offline time around 10-15 minutes depending on luck. 1.5 intervals missed is a lot better than 4, and without the need to sink the in the process.

Any able bodied person would be able to climb the card reader and simply walk over.

If they're going to put that extra time on the cruise they might as well run the train of Bedford Park or 205th st. If the 12-9 is on the NB local track, there is no route to the Bronx so 168 is the better option, trains can easily be fit into the 10 minute headway. Going to 200th would require fumigating at the station which would tank the train and take the that much further out of position when RCC is ready to 'go normal'. And the truth is once its announced the train is heading up the line everyone will get off since they needed Concourse, so no sense in going all the way up Harlem carrying air.

Wrong, it's because the is evil and everything is a conspiracy; no one in the whole company has an IQ above room temperature in an igloo. So no one *ever* thought of just putting in HEETs everywhere and firing all the Token Booth Clerks. /s

It's a rollout, so not all crew will have scanners, and it depends on your app, what version, etc. But the scan is going to be the primary method eventually.

It's totally possible to remember a lot of passengers if you're a regular crew. I even know passengers names and I'm up front. As far as etix there is a flag on particular e-tix that require them to be scanned. This is due to passengers fare beating by flashing a different etix quickly to catch the Conductor not paying attention, or photoshopping old tickets to false details. As far as relishing peoples livelihoods being ruined, I can't stop you from relishing in that outcome, that's on you to feel whatever hate you feel. But which is more likely the fact that a Conductor bypassed an entire car and singled you out for racial motivations to be the only fare collected a particular way, or that your subjective view is skewing the actions of an individual when there are several rational explanations for the same action. And if you do feel that's the case then actually report it, all the C3s have cameras, put it in while the footage is still good and it can be looked in to. I dont like racists, let's find some.

It gives the trains the brand new, modern, 'space ship' feel. I personally think it's a bit too bright because it washes out your night vision if you have to walk around the inside of the car then put your head out to observe the platform at night. Or someone opens the door to the cab, the glare is just that little bit brighter. But it isn't the end of the world. Probably makes it harder to sleep as well.