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Just a thought… to avoid situations like at 59th St on Lex, how about the MTA programs announcements so that the next stop is announced with transfers after you leave the previous stop instead of when you arrive at the next stop? It was done during the bus announcement pilot, so why not on the subways?

I see. But isn't it standard procedure during these storms to use standards since they're easier to control?

Just now, LegoBrickBreaker101 said:

Considering that most of the articulated routes are using articulated buses and not standards today I wouldn't count on there being any loans in the Bronx today.

What do you mean? How would that affect loans?

I'm dumbfounded that I haven't seen any snow loaners in the Bronx yet… shouldn't that have been done last night or very early this morning?

Then again, the MDBF of R46s is actually in the middle when it comes to all the NYCT cars. How come they're often involved in the most high-profile incidents, like when that R46 F train stranded passengers recently?

Lemme guess.........R46?

 

 

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I believe this may answer your question.

 

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They really need to get rid of the R46s.

I think the cure for high ridership on this line is to manipulate our local climate and make it rain and snow every other day like in Seattle and London. [emoji23]

They'd probably get used to it eventually….

 

 

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(BTW did they ever get around to putting up the local sign back on the local stop at 10th Av EB? The locals usually stop at the pole closest to 10th away from the SBS stop but there's been no local sign there, just the "NO STANDING" sign and a Guide-a-Ride thingy)

No, they haven't. There isn't even a Guide-a-Ride. I think they just put the local sign on the same pole as the SBS sign.

 

 

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You should see when an SBS wrapped bus shows up on the LOCAL Bx12. You literally don't know for sure if it's a local or Select until you see it stop at the local stops or it blows past an SBS-only stop.

People already have trouble knowing the difference when Bx12 SBS service ends during late nights and are waiting at 10th Avenue at around 11 or so. They never read the destination signs!

 

I'm sure you know about that very well.

 

 

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They have installed them on the NGs out of Gun Hill to be used "exclusively" for the Bx30. But clearly "exclusively" is quite loose here and they have been on the Bx26 and other Gun Hill routes but they serve no purpose on other routes as it only says "welcome aboard" and rolls ads underneath. Did the info boards show the stops or nah?

 

 

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Nope. There were no announcements or a route display. Just "Welcome Aboard."

 

 

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So I was on 4079 on the Bx12 tonight and it has info screens but no announcements. Have they expanded the pilot?

 

 

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Why is the trackbed on the between 145th St and 168th St so noisy, even with all the construction that's been happening on that line?

 

 

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What if you ran SAS under Third Avenue in the Bronx up to Tremont Avenue then turn it east under Tremont Park to make it a crosstown to Throggs Neck? Or you can turn it at Fordham and make it a Fordham/Pelham Parkway crosstown to Co-op City.

 

 

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There's no need for scanners to fan the NYC subway, scanners are useful when fanning freight trains as they don't have an public schedule and that's the easiest way to know the whereabouts of an Freight train to take photos/videos of them.

 

Their also quite expensive, their use to be a link online to the scanner feed for the IRT, it wasn't even that active most of the time and the chatter wasn't that interesting TBH. I wouldn't want to spend 100+ dollars on an device to listen to what I heard on that scanner.

 

Wouldn't it be useful to listen to radio chatter to find out about unplanned service changes in advance, or would a simple notification from the MTA website or announcement be sufficient?

 

 

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Does anyone here have a scanner/listen to NYCT radio transmissions? Cuz if regular railfans have it, then why not MTA railfans?

 

 

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What else is at JG from WF and why?

 

 

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As shown by that pilot program on the train, shorter automated announcements do not decrease dwell times.

How long is optimal dwell time? I've heard 10 seconds.

 

 

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That's a new update, all the R142s do that. It makes sense if you think about it.

 

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Why can't they do that for the B Division and train announcements, too? Isn't the dwell time at the platform supposed to be 10 seconds, so shouldn't you try to make the announcements as quick as possible?