Deucey

They do PR campaigns. I mean, I stopped trying to pole dance and manspread because of the red stick figure.

I must be the only person here who's ridden buses in all 5 boroughs and three downstate counties in the service area and have NEVER seen anyone fold a stroller.

I’ve been all over the country and I’ve never known an area where State police and County Sheriffs (or equivalent general law enforcement agencies) don’t have jurisdiction. City police typically don’t cross city boundaries to patrol or pursue without approval from the neighboring jurisdictions, but county and state have universal jurisdiction within their borders (the latter is created by the state to administer state priorities and services, while cities are incorporated by petition to address petitioners’ priorities).

So why the objection to State Troopers patrolling NYC streets and highways? It's pretty common elsewhere - State police and local PD generating revenue citing drivers for bullshit with no turf war between them.

Despite being a veteran of many vBulletin forums in the aughts, it never dawned on me that people here use signatures (but I only use my phone for internet). Sigs don't show up on mobile. Is that an option that could be turned on?

Look at HOV in SoCal vs NorCal - SoCal has lanes separated by double double yellow or by physical barriers, while NorCal just designates the fast lane as carpool/JOV during peak periods. Highway Patrol enforcement occurs, but in 16 years of driving in California, I used NorCal HOVs regularly driving solo and never got cited - like many others. SoCal or on the LIE? Never tried because cops would pick me out quickly by sight or traffic cameras would record me. It's a nice idea to bring it to streets in outer boroughs, but I'm sure it'd work just as well as fire lanes on Manhattan avenues did in the 90s - and you don't see them marked or enforced anymore...

Is there a way to have the downloads section not make images a ZIP file? I downloaded your 1988 subway map on mobile and Dropbox can't unzip (I don't use a computer out of convenience).

That answer just sounds like "We don't do it because it would be too hard to implement and we don't feel like trying." Also known as "We've always done it this way, and it works for us, so why change?" Key phrase being "it works for us". If by the time routes close to the ferry the buses are too full to pick anyone up waiting, that's a problem. Not fixing that problem is another problem. Just because every deadhead runs on Richmond doesn't mean that's how it should be - especially if folks along Richmond or Victory are having to wait for the third or fourth bus to come to get on. And it being SI, outside rush hour, if we miss the yacht we're now 30 minutes late because TA doesn't care to figure out how to allocate resources better and/or make new policies and operations to serve the ENTIRE island. And they're gonna want $3 from me in March?? Eff that. Thats why I'm not mad DeBlasio isn't giving up more money- why pay more for shitty service that'll only become slightly less shitty?

Is it just that it's not visible on mobile?

Does this software support labeling people based on their roles (sample titles: Admin, moderator, supermoderator, etc)? Been a year since I've been here and dunno who does what besides Turtle and ENY.

Was late to an interview because S40 was overcrowded and S44 ran late, so I missed the ferry by two minutes. But SIX buses deadheaded to the ferry on Richmond Terrace at that time. I feel like those deadheads should be used as supplemental service on the way to/from the ferry when regular services are too full to take on passengers- unscheduled on customer schedules, but able to be assigned by dispatchers for pickups in the last two miles of ferry-bound routes, and the first two miles of routes leaving the ferry. They're light pickups - maybe 10 passengers, but it'd help stop unnecessary delays.

Why is there a step up from the sidewalk to the stairs?

Wouldn't switching the and cause delays on 6th Av at either 34th or West 4th because of the switching?

Why strip maps? Are they a) redoing R46s to have Strip Maps and/or b) are the R179s not going to have FIND?

I'll do you one better. is single tracking between Schermerhorn and Bedford. To ride to Queens, you gotta change trains. They have signs saying all service is on the Queens-bound platform. Why do they have handwritten signs telling people that the local track goes to Schermerhorn? Because someone at thought passengers would just 'figure it out.'

What was the glitch?

So for CBTC, was/is it being constructed with the standard IND/BMT signal blocks, or with the necessary hardware for CBTC?

So since decided to not build express tracks on the current operating segment, does that mean the rest of SAS will be a two-track line?

Someone didn't look at the map before typing...

Champs-Élysées, IIRC. But she wasn't the type that'd know that. IIRC it used to be called Grand Boulevard and Concourse, so she stuck with it, like my maternal family in Detroit still calling Fenkell and McNichols Five and Six Mile Roads, respectively.

I come from real New Yorkers that still to this day say "Take the IRT/IND/BMT to..." God rest my grandmother, she called the Concourse "Grand Boulevard" til the day she died.

But they are red and green.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/nyregion/subway-train-derails-in-manhattan.html?login=email Two cars of a crowded subway train veered off the tracks on Tuesday morning and crashed into a wall in northern Manhattan, injuring dozens of people and causing panic as riders evacuated and made their way through an underground tunnel to the nearest station. Joe Lhota, the newly named leader of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said the emergency brake had been activated, sending the train careening off the tracks, but he could not say why the brake had been deployed. He said all the injuries were minor. Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said 34 people were being treated for minor injuries, including smoke inhalation, and 17 of them were taken to nearby hospitals. There were some 800 people in the tunnel after the accident and it took more than an hour for all of them to get out, he said. The accident, aboard a southbound A train between 135th Street and 125th Street, escalated concerns about the fragility of a subway system that is fraying under enormous demand and an aging infrastructure. Riders relayed harrowing accounts of the train being violently jolted and then being plunged into darkness. For several frightening minutes, as sparks flew and smoke filled the cars, passengers did not know what had happened. Keyvan Chamani, 28, was sitting by the door of his car watching YouTube videos on his phone when “everything went crazy.” His first thought was that there had been an explosion. But it soon became clear that it was an accident, he said. The door, only feet from where he sat, had been knocked off his car as the train crashed into a wall. “It definitely hit the wall because the door ripped out,” he said. “Smoke filled the entire car.” He said people were having trouble breathing and some passengers opened windows. But that caused more smoke to pour in, he said, so they closed the windows again. “I was getting panicked,” he said. There was an announcement of some sort, he said, but he could not make out what was being said. Benjamin Williams, writing on Twitter, said people were not let off the train until smoke appeared. “One lady began having a panic attack, and most people had to use their shirts to not breathe in the smoke,” he wrote. “Some people are crying.” The accident quickly rippled throughout the system, causing long delays on a number of lines, with some commuters reporting being stranded on subway cars underground for more than an hour. Officials said service had been suspended on a handful of lines; theycould not say when full service would be restored. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who controls the subway system, has vowed to take emergency action to improve the system after it became clear that its antiquated infrastructure was failing. The number of delays has soared this year and many commuters complain that they can no longer be sure they will be able to get around the city reliably. Mr. Lhota said that the smoke and fire reported by riders was the result of garbage on the tracks that was set on fire in the crash. He also said that it was not clear if the derailed train was an older-model train, where passengers can pull the emergency brake inside the cars, or a newer model, where riders cannot pull emergency brakes. For Mr. Lhota, who is only days into a job he has held once before, the derailment was an inauspicious beginning. He vowed to “rebuild confidence” in the system. For those on the A train on Tuesday morning, the delays and inconveniences that have become common on the subway turned much more frightening in a split second. Kirk James, 42, was heading from Washington Heights to New York University, where he is a professor, when he said the train seemed to “brake really hard.” Many people were thrown to the floor and he said that in those first few minutes, there was no announcement about what had gone wrong. People from another car began shouting that they saw and smelled smoke. “They were trying to break the glass to come into our car,” he said. They succeeded and huddled in that car for a brief period, afraid to open the door for fear that there might be a fire outside. “Folks were starting to have panic attacks,” he said. Still, he did not recall any announcement from the conductor. After nearly a half-hour, he said, he saw people leaving the cars and walking toward the 125th Street station, which was not far away. “I still don’t know what happened,” he said.

Probably to give folks that'd normally take to Wall Street, now you get a transfer to M15 to ride to Water/Wall St.