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All that says NYPD view their jobs as sinecures. If you or I found ways to not do our jobs because someone didn’t like us, we wouldn’t be getting paychecks. They’re doing that and getting paychecks. Sinecure. I always liked how the Secret Service have their protocols, but when POTUS says “This is what I want”, they make it happen. That’s how policing’s supposed to be - protecting the folks they’re sworn to serve, and adapting when the circumstances change. Yet that’s not what police do. Shouldn’t be that hard to not choke folks out when arresting, but police make it so. And then they complain about how they’re treated. Its a sinecure. So I’ll blame them because they went through the academy we pay them in, take the paychecks we fund, and then avoid doing any actual work or adapting to us - their ultimate bosses - saying “do things differently”. Thats how folks with sinecures operate - as if they’re entitled to money without fulfilling responsibilities. Only to folks who view the few incidents of legal precedent and interpretation as proof the “sky is falling”; whereas Kalief Browder is proof of both being unable to pay bail being a 4th Amendment violation and that having NYC Corrections a separate organization from NYPD or NYC Sheriff a stupid idea due to accountability issues exacerbated by NYS Home Rule law with respect to NYC. Still doesn’t negate the fact that NYPD are not doing the job they’re sworn to do while collecting checks. Anyone can put that at the feet of DeBlasio or Pat Lynch, but the fact rank-and-file are going along with it says more about them then it does their Union head or the Mayor. Yet he’ll be gone once the nursing home Covid issue gets a scroll on MSNBC. We’re a few weeks away from that happening. Sad that we can have a governor potentially impeached and ousted for a legitimate issue with tape recordings, but we can’t bar a president impeached - during his term - from future office for legitimate issues with riot incitement and attempted legislative overthrow and accessory to murder but for his mouth because of his political party’s corruption.

The problem is that and before it should’ve been doing this anyway prior to COVID. Look at our system vs other comparable Metros around the world roughly the same age. They budgeted cleaning and maintenance, and rehab/renovation in some cases, while TA gave ZERO effs and let the system become decrepit and viewed as the transmission vehicle of illnesses. Thats a failure to plan going on 60+ years. But hey, we get waterfalls at 14th St when it rains - so there’s that.

Defund police =/= abolish cops. Defund police means that money, for example, going towards giving police humvees to use as emergency response vehicles being redirected towards things that engage kids at risk of becoming the criminals we read about; or that, in NYPD’s case, leaving counterterrorism to the FBI, and taking the budget for it to put towards Homeless Services police and social workers employed by the city (because of that scandal with the contractors earlier) to help get the hobos off the street. Listening to angry raspy voice folks on AM Radio lie about everything isn’t good for health. And that $1 Billion “cut” shifted NYPD’s school safety unit from NYPD to the School’s budget. Mission stays the same. It’s was the appearance of doing something vs doing something meaningful and substantive.

35,000 NYPD officers. Why are they not patrolling trains instead of backing their union leader in photo ops endorsing presidential candidates and denigrating DeBlasio? Especially since there’s not much going on due to the pandemic, so they have the free time (and the legal and contractual responsibility).

Same reason why it’s kinda hard to rent apartments in Bushwick near Broadway - you hear every train and stuff’s always falling on you. Did they fill in the Rochester subway?

I meant one on Jamaica Avenue. Could’ve kept some of those businesses that closed open and flush with cash from subway patron traffic vs most of it being bus-bound past Sutphin Boulevard.

Life lesson: be careful what you wish/pray for because you just might get it. Should’ve prayed for a tunnel instead of tear down.

You know when everyone's "been chipped" and Rona is rare, masks will be out as soon as flu season is announced. Maybe after this, at least in purple and blue states, folks will stop being penalized for taking sick days.

It's more so a "let's make some quick money off a trend" thing. Plus more relevant memorabilia in the transit museum store and online could bring in that revenue. Imagine if was making the Line Posters instead of Lineposters.com... Basically, sell some gimmicky crap for a quick buck - commercialize subway love.

Why doesn't make masks with the subway map on them - like TfL did? https://www.mylondon.news/whats-on/shopping/london-underground-map-face-masks-19745100

It’s only forecast to be 3-6 inches so there probably won’t be any service cuts unless the accumulation is heavy or the forecast of total snow increases past 1 ft.

Going from one to another is a different contract and different union, so there's no real reason to give up your seniority to start all over again. Add to it that they're all separate companies with different unions and ownership, and cross-division transfer isn't really something available. (NYCTA and the NYCT authorities are only run by , while Bus Co, B&T, and the railroads are owned by but not actually merged together. Geek mode: closest and simplest cognate is the Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi alliance. Renault own a controlling share of Nissan, Nissan own a non-controlling share of Renault and a controlling share of Mitsubishi. They're all separate companies with separate employee groups, but coordinate ops and manufacturing and design so all three (eventually; Nissan and Renault do now) build most vehicles off common frames/platforms and share drivetrains, but factory workers at one can’t transfer to one of the others. (Caveat: Bus Co will eventually going to merge legally with NYCT Bus, as bus ops is technically a tendered franchise from NYC DOT to NYCTA, Bus Co and MaBSTOA.)

Yeah when I worked by Penn, or have to do anything with the IRT at Penn I just walk to 28th Street if the crowds are big enough to make waiting on the express platforms horrid. We really need to not have NYPD patrolling the subway or buses - NYCT PD needs to make a comeback, or since PD is a thing, take a good number of them from their cushy jobs as 'Triple A with guns' on the bridges and put them in the stations.

Not to mention that aside from the NEC, Amtrak leases trackage with the freight railroads at extortionate rates bc Congresspeople demand Amtrak serve Town "X" instead of Metro to Metro in exchange for annual appropriations. End result is two-fold: NEC riders pay high ass fares to subsidize the relative lower fares the rest of the US pays, and never has enough to buy more trackage and save or make money.

Why isn't there a 10th or 11th Av line - now or historically?

I love how no matter the topic, folks ask these types of questions like the government really is that stupid 100% of the time and never consider that there might be a legitimate reason for the issue - ie no clearance in the ROW, or that the tracks behind needed clearance of other consists before the train could reverse, or that even s**t happens and you can’t do anything right away.

The rules apply to ; Staten Island is SIRTOA - legally a different organization. Same reason why LIRR runs 24/7.

Probably not, but aside from being on a lake and not an ocean where wind gusts and marine layers affect things, CTA is a better run organization with better maintenance-of-way and facility practices.

I was thinking about visiting a cousin off 3rd Av today; I’m not walking 20 blocks from 149th. I did a walk around my hood earlier - that was enough.

1) Thank God I didn’t get an idea to take my camera to Coney Island 2) Thank God I don’t live in Wakefield 3) Did the railroads shut down too?

I do feel like DOT should’ve built some version of the Mid-Manhattan and Lower Manhattan Expressways just to make a faster connection to LI that avoided local streets, but I’m glad it never happened since induced demand would’ve made air quality and congestion much worse than what we have now. Also, I would’ve been okay with it if that 9/11 LMDC money made West St into an actual Westside Highway down to the FDR as a proper Manhattan Ring Road, or into a real Michigan-style trunk road with Michigan Lefts (left turns as U-turns after the intersection), but we are where we are, and it was more cost effective to destroy the decrepit and closed viaduct and build a proper boulevard. Now it has me wondering about the feasibility of building a MNRR spur past Penn down to FiDi using West Street for the viaduct - as a traffic and pollution reduction measure.

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2021/02/01/storm-watch-nyc-travel-restrictions/

Except: Where did I say it’d be the same TPH? That’s your inference.

Since, in this scenario, would still end at Whitehall, then back to Continental and change to headed to Bay Ridge, and at Continental becomes to Whitehall, the premise of your contention is faulty. And with QBL and BMT Broadway Local being isolated lines, the only choke points are the same as they are now - 60th St to 34th St BMT due to merges. Also, you lose many QBL Express delays since isn’t merging in to 53rd St and out at Queens Plaza - even if you route onto 53rd and keep on 63rd.

So we’re having it touch down where in Manhattan without destroying all that high price Westside real estate? And because of the angle needed to build it and still let cargo ships pass under, it’s not touching down until 9th-10th Av. Same with the tunnel - but now you’ve got queues of traffic like at Canal Street with the Holland Tunnel. Rich folks on the Westside won’t like that.