Tonyboy515

Both the and cut south of Kings Highway on the same weekend??? This is a first and it’s not great at all…

I guess this makes sense given we do have a precedent with the B51 (former route over the Manhattan Bridge between City Hall and Downtown Brooklyn) getting axed in 2010. So, it totally could be a possibility but I doubt any service through the tunnel or similar would return.

Every time I scroll through almost any social media post involving the , whether about the R211s, other system improvements or minor changes, or the fare increases, the comments almost always have the same alarming narrative. Something like hopping the turnstiles, not paying, or complaining that we pay too much and that $2.90 (or even $2.75) is too expensive for a (insert negative word) service like the . This is the average rider on social media's thought process now regarding the MTA. Many ordinary riders that I talk to that are my friends share the same question: why are we paying and why are we paying more (especially for something that doesn't seem to get better)? It just doesn't seem like there is visible serious action being done to improve customer opinion, and this social media mob mentality will also put a dent in fare collection. P.S. Another can of worms is that evading the fare is a social media trend of its own, whether with people hopping, going in directly behind someone else, or grabbing the emergency door open, and there is absolutely nothing done about it.

Additionally, the decided to start running weekend buses to replace Culver service… which hasn’t had a bus since pre-pandemic. Saw an “F1” bus with my own eyes, and seems like they’re getting a BusTime route as well.

Regularly commuting from Downtown Brooklyn, I can confirm that if the comes in directly behind a on the PM rush, most of the time, both come in at the same time at Newkirk, and the rest of the time the narrowly misses the Newkirk connection. I have yet to see a Church Avenue connection, the would have to be unbearably slow for that. I view this as it buys me 3 extra minutes in case I missed my , living near a local stop. Also, the likelihood of an earlier connection is greater when the is an R68/A rather than an R46… not sure why.

This is a random thought but it has to do with proposals, so I'll bring it up here: Has there ever been a consideration to swap the with the below Church Avenue on Culver? The below church has very low ridership as it is and it may be more efficient to cut the off at Church and leave the to points south (and maybe a rush hour extension). In addition, we could consider a minor but significant Culver Express segment taken by either the or the from 4th Avenue-9th Street (preferably with a switch built right after 4th Avenue/before 7th Avenue for expresses to be able to serve 4th Avenue). The stops between 7th Avenue and Church Avenue have historically lower ridership than their express counterparts (unlike Carroll and Bergen) which could make this express segment more viable, whether taken by the or . This express segment also has the functional benefit of eliminating a bottleneck at Church Avenue, which I repeatedly experience firsthand with trains being stuck behind terminating/starting trains. Edit: Yes, riders to/from Manhattan would have to transfer at Church, but it would be cross-platform and preferably scheduled. Timing at Church would also ease merging after 7th Avenue/4th Avenue. Thoughts?

There'd be no way for the media to know unless the MTA did a press release (meaning we'd also know outside of this forum), so there'll probably be no media involved just like the R179 first runs.

Is there any reason as to why Prince Street hasn't been connected to the Broadway-Lafayette and Bleecker Street complex? Seems like a relatively simple addition to me just looking at the station positions on the map.

Why are trains going over bridges (e.g., B/D/N/Q on the Manhattan Bridge) severely limited by their speed? Other systems (e.g., PATCO in Philadelphia) have no problems running their trains over bridges at high speeds. I figured someone on here might know a concrete answer.

The Cropsey Avenue gap is being filled by a rerouted B64, which is a win. Extending the B55 XT down 39th Street doesn’t make sense, it makes the already-really-long route even longer, and the optimized B35 should do the trick anyway ( to or is still faster to Church Avenue than the B35 would be). Speaking from personal experience, the B103 LTD portion from Flatbush to Downtown Brooklyn is a pathetic crap-shoot, even with the express Prospect Expressway segment. I’ve used it a couple of times to get to/from Downtown Brooklyn when the we’re having issues and boy was it freaking horrible, especially trying to make it down 3rd/4th Avenue, taking at the very least 40 minutes to get from Church Avenue to Downtown unless traffic is spotless. People are better off transferring to the to get downtown anyway. Even then, the new proposed B81 knocks down three issues in one: being an (albeit more local) B103 alternative with a more streamlined route, being somewhat of a B21 comeback (the pre-2010 cuts Cortelyou Road route), and connecting Red Hook. As for a Shore Road local, I can see how a B9 extension would work, but I don’t think there’s enough demand for travel within the area, there is more outward demand, and that’s already also covered with the B4 and B16.

This is an idea that I still don’t understand why the MTA hasn’t considered… Even if no direct connection/passage is built, at least making an OOS transfer could be useful. The transfer between the and at 4th Avenue/9th Street doesn’t help much, and for any riders riders going between Brooklyn and Queens or northern and southern Brooklyn, even with the small walk, going from the Atlantic complex to Fulton St shaves at least 5 minutes off of commutes (Google Maps displays this well if you set the start location to Atlantic-Barclays and the end location to any station you can transfer to the G with).

How hard would it be to connect the platforms/stations on 7th Avenue and Grand Army Plaza , as well as connecting DeKalb Avenue and Nevins St ? They're absurdly close together and seem like very promising connections, and these connections could relieve the not-so-close-together Atlantic Avenue platforms at least a little.

I’ve had this happen before, but those missing trips did eventually pop up 2-5 days after they happened (which is still strange)

I headed to Midtown on the on Wednesday and nearly all of the trains I saw on the and even on Broadway (I saw ~12 total trains) were R160 (and of course, none on the )... I still don't understand what happened to sharing R160s with the like there was before circa December 2020 (with the sharing a pool) because living along the Brighton line, I see none at all (except for maybe one during the AM rush, but even that technically didn't come from a real due to rush-hour put-ins, if that makes sense), just almost entirely R46s with a few R68/As sprinkled in.

Good point, the M and J routing I proposed is on the radical side. How about an to 96th but a to Bay Ridge? If that’s also too outlandish then I guess routing should be unchanged, the only runs to 96th (or Forest Hills rush hours only), and the runs standard routing.