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On the MTA Neighborhood Maps website (http://web.mta.info/maps/neighborhood_maps.htm), there's no map for Jackson Heights.

Seems like a pretty strange omission to me, especially as Roosevelt Av-74 St even has its own WalkNYC map.

Does anyone know why?

 

Due to passenger injury at Grand Av-Newtown, the following service changes are in effect:

, ,  and  trains are running with delays in both directions.

Some northbound  and 71 Av bound  trains terminate at Queens Plaza.

Some northbound  trains terminate at 21 St-Queensbridge.

Some 71 Av bound  trains are running on the  line from Delancey St-Essex St to Chambers St then terminate.

Northbound  trains are running express from Queens Plaza to Forest Hills-71 Av then running on the  line to Kew Garden-Union Tpke or Jamaica-179 St.

Some northbound  trains are terminating at 57 St-7 Av.

Allow additional travel time.

 

WOW! One passenger can cause serious travel headaches for hundreds of people. 

 

Yep, definitely.

I wonder how trains can terminate at Queensbridge and s can terminate at Kew Gardens. Looking at the track map, it looks like there aren't any relaying tracks east of either station. The notice doesn't say anything about the running local east of Forest Hills or the southbound running via 53rd Street to accommodate these spontaneous changes.

That may be because of late buses. Buses bunch a lot, and therefore, there will be a lot more people than normal at the bus stop when the bus(es) finally arrive. 

Oh, I see. That bus bunching is also a huge problem on the Q38 that I take daily.

If bus bunching is going to keep happening, the MTA should add articulated buses to the Q53. I know, it'll never happen without SBS, but that type of thing is a huge PITA for bus riders all around the city. At least the Q53 has a sister route that could help out during weekdays.

I'm very interested to see what fleet numbers and numbering conventions they end up with, especially the Staten Island units.

 

I would assume the transit ones will be pretty simple: starting at 3310 or 3311 and following the 0,4,5,9 or 1,5,6,10 pattern for the A cars.

 

Staten Island is where it gets interesting:

 

You could follow the existing SIR convention where all A cars are even numbers and all B cars are odd, with all the A and B cars in the same number series (for example #500-571 continuous, then A cars #572, 574 and 576) or you could follow the PATH convention and have A cars in one number series and B cars in another. (#500-538 for the A cars and #600-635 for the B cars)

 

It will be interesting to see what they end up doing.

The existing SIR convention is like the R46s. It works if you have four-car sets or if you have spare odd numbers for the 16 extra B cars. There are only 80 SIR cars though, so there should be plenty of spare numbers. We'll find out in a couple of years.

I would extend Q52 to at least 74 St/Jackson Heights, just to mirror the Q53. Sometimes, the lines for the Q53 at 74 St are so long, it takes 3 buses to clear the line out.