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    R179 Discussion Thread

    in New York City Subway

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    1 hour ago, subwaycommuter1983 said:

    Yes, the r32's are one of the most unreliable cars. However, if they run to the Rockaways, preferably Rockaway Park as the A or the Shuttle, they will get more outdoor exposure decreasing chances of breaking down.

    In other words during rush hour:

    r179's -Ozone Park

    r46's - Far Rockaway

    r32's - Rockaway Park

    But having the r46's going to Ozone Park and the r179's to Far Rockaway may also work depending on ridership.

    I was thinking something like this:

    12 car of R32s on the Rockaway Park (S)

    R32s to Rockaway Park to have Rockaway Park Yard be 100% R32

    R179s to Far Rockaway given enough R179s are delivered (because airport traffic)

    R46s to Ozone

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    R179 Discussion Thread

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    9 minutes ago, subwaycommuter1983 said:

    This is a Canarsie shutdown update officially confirmed by the MTA. Click on the link:

    https://www.amny.com/transit/l-train-shutdown-1.22311753

    Since the A will most likely have a mixed fleet, it would be a good idea to have all 10 car r179's go to Ozone Park. During rush hours have the r46's go to one side of Rockaways, and the r32's go to the other side of the Rockaways. 

    Some r32's can run on the Rockaway Shuttle during off peak hours. It has happened in the past (remember Sandy???) 

    I feel like this would make life easier for A train riders, who will be able to tell where the A train is going based on car fleet.

     

    Yes, R32s ran on the special Rockaways Shuttle post-Sandy, but they were then swapped out with R46s for OPTO operations. I’m not really sure if the R179s will cause power issues at LIPA/the train car itself, but I would rather have the R179s run to Far Rockaway if enough R179s are there for that. (The R32s are good, but they suffer from bad MDBF)

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    BUS - Random Thoughts Thread

    in New York City Bus

    Posted · Edited by mine248

    9 minutes ago, JeremiahC99 said:

    How is a laptop with an i5 Processor running with >2.0 gHz speed overkill to run a server handling the manegement of the largest bus fleet in the nation?

     

    Also, do you have any bright ideas to stop the morning knockout of BusTime that does not involve having to pick up gaming PCs or any other powerful PCs from Best Buy?

    1. Find system breaking bugs in the code and patch them

    2. Have redundancies with the system. Like if one fails, get another one up and running.

    3. I think the MTA will flatly refuse to buy gaming PCs from anywhere. They have huge markup and you don’t even need the GPU in it if the PC is prebuilt. (Plus, I think the MTA gets their computing needs from large volume corporate electronics companies like Dell, HP, or Apple.)

    And yeah, an 8th gen Core i5 (or Core i7, for that matter), is probably unable to handle the demand for BusTime and other MTA services. 

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    R179 Discussion Thread

    in New York City Subway

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    3 minutes ago, Bracamonte said:

    I've seen videos of an R179 set on the (M) from months ago, but only on the weekend shuttle. How come they didn't go via 6th Avenue and Queens Blvd?

    That was as part of a GO in July 2018 where (J) trains ran between Broad and Myrtle, then via the (M) to Metro and between Cresent and Jamaica Center. There wasn’t a (J) to Metro program on the NTT at that time, so some conductors had the (J) trains be signed up as (M) trains. That’s how there was R179 (M) trains. (Some conductors signed their trains up as some random (J) program as well, so it was a hellish GO in terms of communication to the point that SMEEs had to be used to provide proper signage on the trains. I think this issue was solved in August when Sarah Meyers made the NTT programmers make a (J) to/from Metro program, as well as paper signs just in case the electronic signs didn’t go well.)

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    SUBWAY - Random Thoughts Topic

    in New York City Subway

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    8 minutes ago, Lance said:

    I could've swore I read something about this a while back where there's a plan to upgrade the components of the 142s to R188 standards. Help me out here @Union Tpke. As for FINDs and the like, I don't see how those would be useful on trains that rarely leave their home lines. The (2) and (5) are the exception to the rule and not the standard, unlike most of the B-Division, where cars are shared among several lines.

    You are correct on that with the R142A. The MTA listed it out here: http://web.mta.info/capitaldashboard/15_19/agencies/t/t7010103_project_narrative.htm

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    R179 Discussion Thread

    in New York City Subway

    Posted

    2 hours ago, lara8710 said:

    The R179s on the (J) line look gorgeous but the FIND screens in their cabins look terrible! Overly pixelated appearance and poorly sized fonts <_<

    Blame it on their poor software to hardware optimization on the train car! The screen is bigger, but they never changed the code to fix that issue. It’s kinda like if you use a Windows laptop and enable scaling—some stuff won’t scale correctly. 

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    R179 Discussion Thread

    in New York City Subway

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    8 minutes ago, Fan Railer said:

    Yes. It's been established that the bridge opens to oversized loads some time between 8:30 pm and 9 pm depending on traffic conditions. So they should be crossing soon, if not now.

     

    Look when the truck gets rerouted or something due to road milling on Broadway. Perhaps via St. Nicholas and 187th st (like how the Bx7 and M100 went via St. Nicholas and 187th St)

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    R179 Discussion Thread

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    43 minutes ago, R32 3838 said:

    The R42's are going to the (B) , the (B) will be R42,R46 and R68.

    The R46's are gonna be on the (N) and (W) as well.

    The R32's are going to be only on the (A) and (G) lines. 

    Im glad the (A) is keeping some R32's, with the R179's the (A) will have a decent balance of 60 foot cars.

    I just hope they don't f**k the (A) over and give those R179's to the (N) or (Q) lines instead.

     

    They better not....the (A) needs more capacity to handle the L crush. 

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    SUBWAY - Random Thoughts Topic

    in New York City Subway

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    3 hours ago, trainfan22 said:

    If anybody is in the area there's an R160 (C) train heading to Rockaway Park RIGHT NOW! Just passed my (A) train near the race track.

     

    It was signed up as the (C) to Rockaway Park which made it that much cooler.

     

    There was a 12/9 with TWO people at Broadway Junction which messed up (A) & (C) train service.

    Did anyone take a picture of that <C>?

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