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41 minutes ago, Around the Horn said:
35 minutes?! I live on the
and that's never happened to me, GO or otherwise...
And yes the
has an emoji
Oh yeah. It was 1:47 PM when those doors closed. It was 2:18 PM when they opened at 36 St.
Maybe the BusMoji isn't visible from mobile.
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42 minutes ago, N6 Limited said:
The LIRR has a PDF of the zones, but I want to know about the missing zones.
http://web.mta.info/lirr/about/TicketInfo/LIRRFares03-19-17.pdf
I don't follow you. :-/
Is there really such a thing? And if there was, how much could it be leveraged to suck riders' wallets dry?
*imagining a scene on Port Washington to Manhasset*
Conductor: ticket?
Me: *hands ticket from Woodside to Manhasset*
Conductor: oh I'm sorry, that doesn't account for our ghost zone. I'm gonna need $3 from you or I call the purple-ties.
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Service Changes on the BMT 4th Ave line are cruelly slow. How TF does it take 35 minutes on the express track to get from Fort Greene to Sunset Park?
I got off the
at 36 St and took the B63 on 5th Ave. What are the friggin odds I make it to Bay Ridge Av before it does?
Really craving some busmoji updates on this site...😩 Can't believe there's no Brooklyn routes past the 50s covered.
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The Q52/53 hands off to SBS on November 12th. The DOT did a Picassic job with roadways. They really rolled out the 'red asphalpet' out here.
**there are intentionally misspelled puns in this blurb**
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Great Capital Compromise - the first time since 2007 that the MTA left the base fare as is (despite reduced bonuses and pricier unlimiteds)...😫
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@N6 Limited if you want to figure out where zones are, simulate (but don't complete) ticket purchases choosing various locations and mark a zone each time the ticket goes up.
The LIRR handouts include zone information, but it does vary by branch. Usually it's in the back.
I think the first three zones are within the city and should not exceed $4.25 in cost (besides base fare, this was also preserved in the Great Capital Compromise).
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Just now, RR503 said:
Yeah. No sh*t Sherlock. That’s what happens when you run trains...on electricity.
You took my remarks out of context. Don't be an arse.
The MTA never does anything in moderation, and by citing utility costs, it should have led to a discussion concerning wasteful spending and energy independence, which is more attainable than either congestion pricing or the millionaire's tax, certain to be shot down by the 7 senators representing the MTA suburban service area.
If you have nothing to say to further the conversation, don't further the conversation. I am a trigger happy muter. Just ask
via Church.
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On 11/8/2017 at 3:22 PM, SmallParkShuttle said:
Anybody notice that the Transit layer on Google Maps now has the station outlines for NYC Subway? Or am I just late to the game?
Did you know that Bee-Line bus data is now available on Google Maps? I was an important help in that game...
If they take MetroCard, they should be included. Plain and simple.
NICE bus data was available courtesy of the private operator, Transdev, which is painstakignly detailed and rich.
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3 hours ago, Lawrence St said:
So, when riding around on the
to Bowling Green G.O, I decided to stay on the train to see the old SF Loop again. Surprisingly, the loop station is literally the same as it was before it closed, the lights are still on, cameras are still working, gap fillers were still there, even the trash hasn't been taken out from the bins lol. The only difference is the passageway to the and 
has some type of weird non-permenant wall below the stair case, and the stair case to the exit has planks of wood all over the place. I wonder when they will actually start to convert it to an abandoned station, it's literally wasting power right now.
I do honestly wonder if that's happening elsewhere too?
The MTA wastes a lot of things. I hear their electric bill is unbelievable.
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A study was recently published and I'm not too surprised at how NYC ranks:
The study is here:
In terms of the continent, were 1st, but other rankings are lower: the lower the ranking, the worse the score
Commute time: 22 out of 23 (Summer of Hell, anyone?)
Economic opportunity: 9 out of 23 (I disagree with this)
Public finance: 21 out of 23 (with $40 billion in debt, a gold-digging guv 'nor, and a stubborn resistance by the mayor to MoveNY plan, how else?)
Road network efficiency: 23 out of 23 (sorry, Moses - you tried)
Affordability: 15 out of 23 (with fares 27% higher than nat'l inflation and 50% higher than surrounding agencies, this will only get worse)
Utilization: 5 out of 23 (managing delays has gotten better, but the MTA should really consider the Triboro Rail, largely disused by revenue trains but reliable for cargo transport)
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@Bill from Maspeth it was like that for me during the first few months I was on this site. After a while, I felt my content was ignored, too, so I took a different approach by taking my criticisms to Medium, where I have the room and the space to properly hash out my thoughts.
It's difficult to do that on a forum, as many users here, some of them
employees, have diverging views on how things are done. This unintentionally allows the status quo to remain unchanged.
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15 hours ago, B35 via Church said:
via Laptop....
You might have the strikethrough mode enabled by default. It seems the option isn't available on mobile, where most of my replies
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On 11/7/2017 at 11:26 AM, SevenEleven said:
It does mean Dropback but it means to not depart for the specified amount of time, thus dropping back (or down) a headway. For the most part, MTA Bus and some NYCT hawks use dropbacks as their way of giving operators their meal break on the road, without having them deadhead to/from the depot first.
PATH does something similar. Me and a conductor shared a coffee break and current events on my last photo run in New Jersey.
About August 2016.
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On 11/4/2017 at 5:35 AM, B35 via Church said:
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I've been trying to utilize the strikethrough function on purpose. Did you reply over desktop or mobile?
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The relocation of Eagle Eyes toward SBS is having a visible impact. I see less scoundrels on Brooklyn SBS, even in bad neighborhoods.
This is further proof that if you station cops, they won't come.
☝psst...there's a play on words in those italics!
=Another city known for city lights and rowdy crowd.=
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On 11/2/2017 at 3:41 PM, Lance said:
I saw that. That's got me wondering how long it would take to install an elevator (or three given the station layout) here. Not on MTA times because they'd give a three year timeframe and a ridiculously overpriced budget, but by normal design standards.
what standards? 🤔
Hopefully the
will use this time to evaluate more than just Bombardier in terms if unfitness for NYC investment.
I'm positive several more prime contractors can be booted proper. Also, a Carfax-like history to see how many other agencies they've failed, e.g. NYCHA, CTA, etc, so we don't set taxpayer dollars for failures in engineering.
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On 11/7/2017 at 10:18 AM, LGA Link N train said:
well, unless the R179 order is complete then we'll just have to figure something out with the R32's (assuming that there will be about 100 left) such as .... IDK, overhauling them one more time or leaving them on the
, the 
(i know for a fact) won't be able to handle the R32's much longer (by the time the 
train shutdown comes around, the will be all NTT)
Come to think of it, unless we overhaul them once more there's really no place to put the R32's. Unless the MTA decides to make their GRAND FINALE run on the
since it the R32's first ran on that line.
I think they should be converted into Low-V tugtrains.
As far as I'm concerned, the number of outages so close to bottlenecks is putting strain on nearby systems while trapping riders.
Kew Gardens, West Midtown, DeKalb, and I'm sure the list will only grow.
I'm positive that there are better alternatives to the gas powered vehicles that make the tunnels unbreathable if it isn't being caused by both rat species in the subway.
The R32s are beyond useful revenue service. However I don't think they totally deserve a resting place in the Atlantic yet.
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I have a different link for the calendar I started on Google - this one is viewable from a browser:
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5 hours ago, Bosco said:
While those are Kawasaki trains, those have AdTranz/Bombardier propulsion packages. Even then howling motors are not limited to those trains. There are plenty of howling Alstom-powered trains and a few Siemens sets as well.
As for the cause of the howling, I'm not entirely sure but I am curious as well.I figured other parts came from elsewhere.
I'm sure if you bring it up, it'll be brushed over until the real reason actually hurts someone.
Then the finger pointing shall commence. 👈👆👉👇
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On 11/4/2017 at 10:16 PM, s111limited said:
Just curious, why do a lot of R143s on the
have howling motors? I first started noticing them with those sounds around early 2015.
If you're talking about the sound it makes when they accelerate, that's because the R143, R142 and R188 are Kawasaki-built. They seem to share the same components for propulsion.
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10 hours ago, RestrictOnTheHanger said:
When I was playing around with the GTFS I parsed it using MS Access. The text files are comma separated.
Like a contacts export (CSV)?
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13 hours ago, JTrainUK said:
Interesting one on the
tonight, apparently there was a shopping trolley on the tracks at Utica earlier!
Bearing in mind Utica is an underground station, and they had to get it through the turnstiles, how did it find its way onto the track?!
It could have been Rail-lifted to a nearby yard.
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On 11/1/2017 at 10:08 PM, Lawrence St said:
Yep, however the code dosent seem to work anymore.
GTFS can't be appreciated or parsed in this form. Copy and paste into Notepad++ and screenshot it for better reading.
That probably doesn't work because it's an older specification.
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On 10/30/2017 at 7:06 PM, limitednyc said:
what is gtfs, is there a link?
Google Transit Feed Specification.
Not a link, but a protocol that can be used to display real or static time that's open sourced so any developer can incorporate it into their app.
NYCT's feed is Quad-tier (static, real time, service alert, variable) which is the most detail.
The Bee Line GTFS, by comparison, is only single tier (static), and NICE is tri-tier (real, static, and variable).
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and that's never happened to me, GO or otherwise...
has an emoji
via Church.
to Bowling Green G.O, I decided to stay on the train to see the old SF Loop again. Surprisingly, the loop station is literally the same as it was before it closed, the lights are still on, cameras are still working, gap fillers were still there, even the trash hasn't been taken out from the bins lol. The only difference is the passageway to the 
has some type of weird non-permenant wall below the stair case, and the stair case to the exit has planks of wood all over the place. I wonder when they will actually start to convert it to an abandoned station, it's literally wasting power right now.
employees, have diverging views on how things are done. This unintentionally allows the status quo to remain unchanged.
, the 
(i know for a fact) won't be able to handle the R32's much longer (by the time the 
train shutdown comes around, the 
since it the R32's first ran on that line.
tonight, apparently there was a shopping trolley on the tracks at Utica earlier!
SUBWAY - Random Thoughts Topic
in New York City Subway
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@Around the Horn get this:
The conductor doted off at Canal St's Tunnel level and it literally took me yelling "what the heck? That signal is green! Why are we still here? You sleep?"
Please note ten minutes passed before my remark. The signal could have been green for longer.
I find some conductor's lack of tact, disturbing.