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Don't bother, it'll be an endless pointless argument with him. In other news. There's been opposition for the changes to the 1W, 1C, 5, 20, and 17.

To this day, why the TA listened to these outrageous claims is beyond me. IIRC, this is also what accelerated the RTS retirement by 6-7 months.

I get wanting to keep jobs the same and tolerable, but why hasn’t anything been done about the weekend cutting out conductors and being opto? Seems like it’s a waste of money and man power to continually keep separating and coupling together cars for two days.

We can agree to disagree. I'd like to know what deadhead's you think are wasteful (other then the weekend ones which have a point).

@553 Bridgeton For the life of me, I can not understand why NJT does not pay their drivers pre-trip time or why the union hasn't fought for it. I've looked at about 12 other agencies in the northeast who all pay for pre-trip time. Is this not a major issue among drivers right now?

The BxM4D was only created because of the railroad strike. The reason why the BxM4C wasn't apart of the MTA takeover is because it was based out of the local garage and not the express garage (which is now Yonkers). HA! Good luck getting people off the train. The 4C is done, it's been done since the 2010 cuts. I disagree, it's not the company that's not increasing service, it's the county. All operations (except the 4C) are owned by the WDOT (or NYSDOT depending on the route), which is why it's so dam hard to get any change done in the network. I know because I've tried several times to ask them to change things. The 32 for example, loses time because it has to go on Buena Vista for no reason and often gets stuck behind double parked cars and illegally parked cars instead of just going straight on Riverdale. I think I asked 3 times before I started the new job and never received a response.

Which was extremely dumb on their part, because most of the casino patronage comes from Manhattan and the Bronx (specifically off the ).

See this is why I wish we were able to see ridership trip by trip on all the BxM’s (including the 4C) because I want to see if off peak service is being “well used” as they say it is.

Wym “it is” going to stick around? The county wants it gone.

Surprisingly buses are actually leaving mostly full to full during rush hour. I wouldn’t say I want it gone, but severely modified with service north of ardsley rd cut.

Yeah it’s an express, it’s even labeled as such on the signage. There are discrepancies however between how the county prints the timetables and how they’re actually supposed to be operated. IIRC, that 26th St stop was discontinued by like five years ago and the county still has it listed as a stop.

Aren’t the end doors on the R44 SIROTA fleet suppose to be unlocked?

As far as I know both of them are express?

The problem with running the to 57th or even 96th is the constant switching and bottle necking. I’d rather just send the to 145th for minimal impact to operations.

Why don’t you just straight out say it, this isn’t wheel of fortune…

And end it where? 2nd?

I fully support an extension but want it to 145th St & CPW on weekends to help out the .

I don’t think you guys understand that FRA laws and rules play a big part in how they run shuttle train service to/from Meadowlands.

I’d like to know who built this Meadowlands rail line and didn’t think of the fact that you can’t run it direct from NYP?

Where did you see me mention anything about light rail in my paragraph?

For as often as the mainline SIR runs, I see no issue why the North Shore can’t also run the same frequency and have no problem with storage space.

Lack of yard space? What??? Clifton is right down the road and you have all of the unused platform space at St. George for more storage.

Sorry, I’m against this. Most of the infrastructure is STILL there for HEAVY duty transit. Why waste all this money for bus conversion when you can just rehab the stations still standing and build new ones that got torn down?

Uh, when was the shared with the ? If that was the case, those test R68 units with the signs should’ve popped up on the .

Yes