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3 hours ago, Kamen Rider said:

That was just me kidding around…

That flew over my head too, I ain’t catching on lol

43 minutes ago, Kamen Rider said:

I often wonder why seems like that when I say something, almost everyone who does not work down here like you or I do, just tunes me out.

 

Well, I goes to show those transphobic trolls that I really am a woman, I can’t get guys to listen to me…

Also forgot about the barn thing, my bad on that. Flew over my head, not cause of the reasons you stated though. 

I completely forgot about 8th Avenue CBTC…my bad for the dumb thought. Lol

What’s the odds of the 179s moving entirely off the , to the , to allow the  to have all the remaining 46s? I’m guessing that soon enough, we will have enough 211As and 179s for the ‘s spare factor to be fine right?

There’s many apps/websites they can download/access ya know?

MTA app itself, the Weekendest, realtimenyc, Transit, Moovit, Transit Bandage, the list goes on, a simple 1-2 minute download could make stuff way easier. 

4 hours ago, MTA Dude said:

Would've been nice if Queens had the same ridership charts that came out with the Brooklyn redesign, but I don't think those would've been enough either. IMO a lot of bus routes are doing too much and need to be split up at points of high ridership turnover (and that's what a lot of my proposals in that map is doing), but it's really hard to figure out where that turnover happens or how high it is. I was basically just guessing for my proposals.

Did you do a Brooklyn one then?

5 hours ago, MTA Dude said:

Nah, I kinda realized that I had no idea what I was doing with my proposals (don't have much ridership data to work off of) and kept changing them, so it didn't make much sense to put the work into updating the map. I'll probably redraw the whole thing if I ever reach a point where I'm fully satisfied with most of my proposals since I finally got the hang of drawing Bezier curves.

Ah okay, I would go off the redesign, then change a couple of things, I liked the creativity you had though on those maps. Probably the only way to get ridership data, is through the ridership stats that they post every year. 

On 5/23/2024 at 2:48 PM, TDL said:

You're absolutely right. 

 

REVISED Proposal

1) LIRR Cross Honoring

2) Q116 Limited Bus

   Far Rockaway-Brooklyn College via. Beach Channel Dr.

3) Q117 LIMITED

   Far Rockaway-Sheepshead Bay vía. Rockaway Beach Blvd.

4) Q118-Howard Beach/Lefferts Blvd-Mott Ave FREE Shuttle Bus. This way passengers can use either  train

5) Q119-Rockaway Blvd-Beach 90 Street FREE Shuttle Bus, stopping at Broad Channel.

6)  train Far Rock-Rock Pk, FARE FREE

7) QM16/QM17 off peak and weekend service

8)NYC Ferry enhanced service. Extend Rockaway Ferry to DUMBO after Wall St for Downtown Brooklyn Connections. Extend St. George Ferry to Sunset Pk so the West Side is accessible with a transfer.

Another day, another Sheepshead Bay-Far Rockaway bus line..

Only 1, 6, and 7 are feasible and will probably happen.

On 8/21/2023 at 8:21 PM, MTA Dude said:

I just revamped the map of my (terrible) proposals I made a year ago. In this version I experimented with breaking up routes to improve reliability and avoid serving multiple disjoint ridership bases with a single route.

PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O2S3c3NDRbgXfH_oRwAFfIbeSaDuKxXl/view?usp=sharing

SVG: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lVRDE5hga5xQu0x63f66ZL_xDcA0_D3H/view?usp=sharing

I did assume certain ideal situations, so a lot of my proposals honestly might not be realistic IRL. Assumptions include:

• Archer Ave busway, Jamaica Ave returned to cars
• 165th St terminal replacement is built on the other side of 168th St instead
• New Flushing bus terminal built on the parking lot at Queens Crossing
• Bus lanes along Hillside Ave and Northern Blvd east of Flushing
• 160th St in Jamaica and 58th St in Maspeth become two-way roads
• Maybe Queens Blvd buses get moved off the service road like we've been promised for so long
• Buses have right of way when pulling out of bus stops
• You get unlimited free transfers within 2 hours (even on the same route)

On my map, limited routes will have their stops shown as white circles, and there will be no local variant under the same designation.

The labels are a mess right now and I don't really have the time nor motivation to make it look nice like I did with the last version of the map, so hopefully this will do. I already see a mistake with a 64 icon being left near Citifield...

And here's a few proposed routings in the Bronx:

Q44:

Bx94:

QBx1:

 

I know I’m kinda bumping this, but you got an update to your maps?

2 hours ago, poopybutt123 said:

Why do artics keep running the M31??

#?

I think he had two typos in his comment..let’s wait and see what’s built and being built.

46 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:

Is 4950-4964 assigned out of MJQ? If so, why do I keep seeing units pop up on the Bx9?

There’s two XE60s in KB. It’s been like that for at least a half year.

The station will get a renovation, especially since the Futbol Stadium will be there before the World Cup (allegedly).

1 hour ago, Lawrence St said:

Are they ever going to restore full service on the Bx20 to midday service?

Unless if they make the Bx7 limited south of 231st, then the Bx20 won’t be full time.

14 hours ago, Calvin said:

6:47 PM. It’s suggested to get to the terminal before that time to see if it runs or not. 

That train hasn’t been running for weeks from what I heard. Think it’s already replaced by a 46/211.

27 minutes ago, FLX9304 said:

Rush hour  trains operate to Rock Park. The R179s are going nowhere 

The 8 car ones can go to Jamaica for the . I doubt it though.

What are the next 10 routes to go fare free?

31 minutes ago, Metro CSW said:

4135-39 are coupled with 4140-44. I told you there'd be some switch ups.

4185-89 were testing at Broad Channel.

4080-89, 4105-09, 4160-64 & 4180-84 on stand-by.

4150-59 continue burn-ins, expected to start by next week. We'll see.....

All else are active on the rails.

31 minutes ago, Metro CSW said:

4135-39 are coupled with 4140-44. I told you there'd be some switch ups.

4185-89 were testing at Broad Channel.

4080-89, 4105-09, 4160-64 & 4180-84 on stand-by.

4150-59 continue burn-ins, expected to start by next week. We'll see.....

All else are active on the rails.

So about 15, soon to be 19-20 sets?

How many sets we got in service?

16 hours ago, 7-express said:

They also released the metadata for the trip planner so you can see what scheduled bus runs have been cut.

How’s that accessible?

Safe to say that 4749 is done for a while. 
https://imgur.com/a/PNNSExJ

2 hours ago, Bill from Maspeth said:

The Yardmaster assigns the cars .  There are 3 eight hour shifts for yardmasters daily, Plus since transit  a 24/7 business, there are many different yardmasters in the course of a week.   

Finally, the Division of Car Equipment makes the cars available because of maintenance requirements.  Therefore whatever is available and released by CED (R46/R179) the yardmaster will assign.  Bad performers or good performers are kept tracked of by CED, not the RTO Yardmaster. 

I’d love to be a yard master. Lol

How long are the 2011 C40s tank good for?

1 hour ago, Maxwell179 said:

I’m on the R211T right now ( approaching uptown platform at 59th St-CC ) , this is my second ride and I gotta say, I really like the soft shell better, it gives the train a more spacious feel. All the updated features on the T are really cool , very nice fast smooth ride and it looks so incredible seeing through the train as it curves swerves and descends.

What’s the new features besides the gangway?

12 minutes ago, darkstar8983 said:

I think regardless, Jamaica is getting more cars - (expanded  train length or frequency boosts for the ). Would make sense for the R179s to go to the  for this purpose, and have all 8-car 179s to the  and finally make sure ENY has enough NTT cars for the foreseeable future until the R143 replacements.

So the A/C will be full 211 in this situation?