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Tonyboy515

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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?
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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).
  11. 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.
  12. I’ve had this happen before, but those missing trips did eventually pop up 2-5 days after they happened (which is still strange)
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. The Subway Post-COVID: The Cuts Here is my proposed plan for how the MTA could have up to an overall 40% service reduction and still run as effectively as possible. For reference, current weekend service is equal to around a 25% service reduction from the weekday variants. Stated reductions are compared to current service. ROUTES All Times: 207th Street to Mott Avenue Same route and service pattern except the Lefferts branch is covered by the or the Lefferts , full local at night, and Fulton Street local when is not running, no Rockaway Park rush-hour trips. Service reduced by 30%. Rush Hours Only: 145th Street to Brighton Beach Same route and operation as the current non-rush-hour variant, service reduced by 30%. Weekdays Only: 168th Street to Lefferts Boulevard Route lengthened to Lefferts Boulevard to streamline service, no weekend service, 20% service reduction. All Times: Norwood-205th Street to Coney Island Same route, 30% service reduction. Local on Central Park West weekends. All Times: World Trade Center to Jamaica Center Same route, no rush-hour runs to 179th Street, 30% service reduction. All Times: Jamaica - 179th Street to Coney Island Same route, no rush-hour express service in Brooklyn, 30% service reduction. All Times: Court Square - Smith-9th Streets Truncated from Church Avenue, 30% service reduction. All Times except Rush Hours: Myrtle Avenue-Broadway - Jamaica Center Same route as the current non-rush-hour variant truncated from Broad Street, runs to Chambers Street rush hours, 30% reduction in service. Rest of non-rush-hour route covered by the . All Times: 8th Avenue-14th Street to Rockaway Parkway Same route, 25% reduction in service. All Times Except Nights: Metropolitan Avenue - Bay Ridge-95th Street Same route as the former , except it runs all the way down 4th Avenue (as a local), replacing Brooklyn service. Same nightly shuttle as currently, and a second shuttle between 95th and 36th Streets in Brooklyn. All Times: Astoria-Ditmars Boulevard to Coney Island Same as the weekend routing (Broadway Local via Bridge, except nights via tunnel), similar service levels, no rush-hour trips to 96th Street. All Times: 96th Street to Coney Island Same route, 20% service reduction. All Times Except Nights: Whitehall Street to Forest Hills-71st Avenue Route truncated from Bay Ridge-95th Street, service to Brooklyn replaced by the and , 20% service increase (to accommodate for lost QBL local service from the ), no rush-hour service to 96th Street. (Franklin Avenue) Reduced to a single train. (Rockaway Park) Reduced to a single train. (Lefferts Boulevard) Runs from Euclid Avenue to Lefferts Boulevard when the doesn't run, operates with a single train. (42nd Street) Runs a single train or is suspended. All Times: 242nd Street to South Ferry Same route, 30% service reduction. All Times: Wakefield-241st Street to Flatbush Avenue Same route, 30% service reduction. Weekdays Only: Harlem-148th Street to New Lots Avenue Same route weekdays only, a single-train 5-car shuttle between 148th Street and 135th Street other times, 30% weekday service reduction. Weekdays: Woodlawn to Utica Avenue Same route weekdays, runs nightly service pattern (Lex Av Local nights only) to New Lots Avenue as a Brooklyn local to replace the at all other times, 30% service reduction. Weekdays Only: Eastchester-Dyre Avenue to Bowling Green Same route as weekends, runs as a shuttle from Dyre Avenue to East 180th Street all other times (2 trains). 30% weekday service reduction. All Times: Pelham Bay Park to Brooklyn Bridge Same route, express service rush-hours only, 30% service reduction. All Times: 34th Street-Hudson Yards to Flushing-Main Street Same route, no express service, 20% local service reduction. Suspended: * *Replaced by Thoughts? I am willing to make edits to this plan to make it as effective as possible.
  16. The R188s are the exact same size as the R142As... (In fact, many are just converted R142As) The just has the extra platform length left over in order to run an 11th car as opposed to the other lines.
  17. This is kind of strange... over the past 20 minutes, I’ve seen 2 R160s in a row on the , heading Coney Island-bound, and 1 R160 deadheading vía the express tracks on Brighton (Couldn’t see any of their numbers), also towards Coney Island... are any of those actually transfers to Coney Island Yard right now?
  18. The R110B, and for the possible 1991/92 (?) budget cuts/service changes
  19. If the would end at Brighton Beach, that would be longer distance and time-wise than to Kings Highway, and those s would be carrying air going further.
  20. Pat Foye has the coronavirus. https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/coronavirus/2020/03/28/mta-chairman-patrick-foye-tests-positive-for-coronavirus
  21. REHABILITATION AND TRACK WORK WEEKENDS FROM JUNE TO SEPTEMBER 2020 service is suspended between Manhattan and Brooklyn. service is suspended in Lower Manhattan. and replaces service in Manhattan and Queens. There is extended service between Manhattan and Brooklyn. trains run between Woodlawn and Bowling Green, last stop. There is no service between Canal Street and Whitehall Street. Special service runs between Bay Ridge, 95th Street and Court Street, then making all stops in lower Manhattan to Essex Street, last stop. Enhanced local service replaces local service in Manhattan. Enhanced service replaces service in Brooklyn. Special service runs between Metropolitan Avenue and Forest Hills, running regular weekday service and replacing the in Queens. Special service runs between Jamaica Center and Broad Street, then via the line to/from DeKalb Avenue, and via the express line to/from Kings Highway, last stop. For service to Queens from Brooklyn, take the modified to Essex Street and transfer to the or . For service to Midtown Manhattan from Brooklyn, take the . For service in Lower Manhattan, use the , , or modified . For service between Manhattan and Brooklyn, use the , , or modified . For service via 2nd Avenue, use .
  22. I counted only for the time I was on the line, it doesn't mean I had the time to get to all of the trains as I stated (there obviously were more trains) in my last post.
  23. It really did feel kind of like a mid 2000s throwback, really more like 2007 when the R160s only first began to sprinkle the fleet... except for the R46s. This is what I counted in total today (There obviously might have been more than I counted) on the : 7 R46 (Including the single train that ran as a shuttle from Brighton to Coney Island due to a GO) 3 R68 (2 in a row even...) 2 R160B I got on one R46 to Brighton, and back on an R68. Feels weird to think that this is the new norm again.
  24. Nah, Siemens sounds better IMO lol, but really, as a daily Brighton rider as well, I'd say the change to R46s is almost seamless. Riders are pretty much used to it by now, and ride times aren't affected so there's no reason to fuss over it. At this point, the fleet is almost a flip of a coin (almost 50/50 with a small third party of R68s), R46s on one end, and R160s on the other.
  25. The only R160's left are the Siemens propulsion models...
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