Jemorie

I'm not even sure if I agree with having the go to Lefferts and having all 's go to Howard Beach/The Rockaways.

As for N6 Limited, yes you do in fact need some more cars for this particular service pattern.

Union Tpke asked if you could please post them here because he doesn't have a Facebook account to see them.

Yeah, the upper WPR and the Flatbush Avenue Branch of the Brooklyn IRT now sees 12 minute headways instead of the previous 8 minutes. It sucks. Meanwhile, the Dyre Avenue Line and the Brooklyn IRT's New Lots Avenue Branch now both see 8 minute headways.

About the during weekends, isn't the going to South Ferry 12 minutes since it's the crew operating that line as well as the with an 8 minute headways (as train crews)?

No. Look at the weekend schedules. The former is still on an 8 minute headway while the latter is still on a 12 minute headway. One of the reasons why I really do not like the current weekend setup for both lines every time the Clark Street Tubes shut down, but Lance did say otherwise.

The letter V can come back and be reused for a different service, such as a second 2nd Ave service south of 63rd St. Or as a South Brooklyn IND express between Jay St and Church Avenue. Nothing wrong with either of those. Obviously it wouldn't make sense to bring it back the service from 2002-10.

As long as it's either of those, then no problem.

Lance, I assume you are a regular train rider. I just want to ask why do they always switch the and Bronx terminals whenever the Clark Street tubes shut down? Any particular reason? I honestly find that setup weird. They should just keep the and Bronx terminals the same rather than confuse passengers.

Either four cars or six cars since the R42s are married pairs.

Service Change  Posted: 06/27/2017  5:50PM 
 

Due to a train derailment at 125 St the following service changes are in effect:

 trains are running local in Brooklyn and Manhattan between Canal St and 168 St in both directions.

Some northbound  trains are running express from Canal St to 59 St-Columbus Circle.

There is free shuttle bus service operating between 59 St-Columbus Circle and 145 St in both directions.

 trains are running on the  line from Brighton Beach and 96 St in both directions.

 train service is suspended between Euclid Av and 168 St in both directions.

 trains are running local in Manhattan between 59 St-Columbus Circle and 145 St in both directions.

 and  train service has resumed with extensive delays.

Expect delays in , , , , ,  and  train service.

Allow additional travel time.

Instead of terminating it at 9th Avenue why not just run it to Bay Parkway?

They're not going to overserve the West End Line like that. Around the Horn is right.

i kinda wish for the to run a bit more frequently during the morning rush than it does now. the "new" South Ferry station can actually handle 24 trains an hour, but yet the is only limited to 19 trains an hour in the peak hour (entering Columbus Circle) according to the schedule/Trip Planner.

Broad St Layup, where else?

Um no. Look at the track layout again and see. The train would get delayed:

http://www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/NYC_full_trackmap_16.pdf

They will more than likely be stored at the Canal Street Layup or Chambers Street Layup so that they don't get in the way of the 24/7 train termination/origination at Broad Street. So it's actually more like Broad Street "Relay" because that's what the train always does anyway.

Why does the southbound run local in Brooklyn about after 9:30 p.m. instead of after the last southbound departs from Atlantic on its way to New Lots?

They really should send it to and from Jamaica Center on that weekend.

why not just have all non-isolated lines including the and run every 10 minutes (6 tph) every Saturday and Sunday from about 6 am to midnight instead of usually having some lines run every 8 minutes, some other lines running every 10 minutes and some other lines running every 12 minutes at either all day/evening long or at certain times of the day/evening like they keep on doing now?

they always seem to have an average of up to about 3 minutes (18 tph) every Saturday and Sunday on pretty much all four-track lines where the maintenance of the track and signals take place anyway. Hence the flagging and the rerouting of trains to a different line or opposite track going in the same direction

i'm glad they are building a new repair shop at Fresh Pond for the upcoming shuttle and i honestly hope the full fleet will all be based out of there instead of ENY once this Myrtle Avenue Elevated Construction is over and done with

edit: i hope the said shop will not be taken down and make the whole Fresh Pond facility back to a just a yard (meaning just storing trains and that's it)

I understand your frustration, but that responds was kinda childish (NO disrespect there).

Okay my bad.

A trains get priority over the C. The C is a local supplement of the A.

that's completely unfair and i really do not like that statement. just because it is a part-time or local supplement doesn't mean they should have passengers sitting in the train for a good 15 or more minutes just so a full time line can get priority.

Triggered much?

i don't think he was serious either. he was just joking.

The R142s are updated on the . Arriving at each stop till the stop before the last stop, it'll announce The Next Stop Is instead of This is a train. 

it might just be a minor glitch or error. i remember i once rode a Brooklyn-bound train in Manhattan that was bound for Utica during the afternoon rush hour and it said "This is a Manhattan-bound local train".

i remember also seeing some videos from the 2000s era of the R142A trains heading downtown in Manhattan announcing "This is a Manhattan-bound train" instead of "This is a Brooklyn Bridge-bound train". 

Ah ok that would explain some of it.

 

 

Yes

That's not really answering my question and there aren't any timers on the Queens Blvd Local and most of the 4th Ave Local (south of Atlantic).

Why is the so slow? It's like it crawls for it's entire route.

how is the train so slow exactly (in terms of speed between stations on a daily basis)?

Just heard this from the PA on a northbound between Parkside and Prospect Park:

 

"Due to an assault on the conductor, the train ahead at Prospect Park is going out of service."

sorry bro but ur 100 percent wrong. when I was at East New York yard few months ago supervision always tried to keep the CBTC 160s off the M line so they cant be caught up laid up in queens

 

 

 

Your right actually. I know somebody at ENY now and he said they was sending CBTC 160s if they had to out on the M today because they cant get caught in queens so it doesnt matter. 

Exactly because about half of the train fleet is stored at Jamaica Yard/Hillside Avenue Express tracks every night and every weekend till the AM Rush.

all those southbound platforms should have just remained closed till the rehab work is 100 percent done.

OK, so back to my original question: why do they start at 168 St?

plus remember that during middays and Saturdays is when the runs every 7-8 minutes in both directions (15 minutes east of Rockaway Boulevard) which means the line itself generally has 38-40 trainsets out in passenger service. But during rush hours, it has a total of 38 trainsets in the AM and 40 trainsets in the PM. In short, the extra trains that come out of the 207th Street yard and start service at either Dyckman or 168th in the PM make the train's headways shorter than 7-8 minutes.