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Being a booth clerk is just the starting point for me right now. I'm still aiming to be a conductor for the Authority tho. Perhaps I'mma get promoted to conductor anyway based on the call # I get after I do the test for the booth clerk.

That's very impressive, man! I myself am applying to become a booth clerk for the New York City Transit Authority. I'm surprised they even want booth clerks since they haven't let them accept money from passengers for buying MetroCards since mid March of 2020. Perhaps it is a pretext of wanting to do away with them when the time comes for One Metro New York.

I just came off a webinar where I participated in the discussion regarding the Liberty Lines Transit revamp project. I asked questions in the chat regarding the Grasslands area, the W66 regarding why the Ardsley on Hudson area was going to be nixed (since it has a spur branch directly serving Mercy College near Ardsley), and whether the W25 was going to be re extended back to Yonkers Metro North from Manor House Square. In the live portion, I asked two questions whether they were looking to extend the time the W21 was going to run from just peak hours to midday if they were sending the W20 to Williamsbridge via the Montefiore/North Central area and if the bus stop poles were going to be revamped in such a way that it was going to look like the ones from the Bronx. Someone actually proposed the W20 to run all night as well and I just remarked: you wish. The video recording is coming soon as it was recorded via Zoom.

Beating up a bus driver at the end of the 48 in Arlington is one thing (they were wrong to beat him up, but I suspect the driver managed to live regardless). Its a whole different matter when it comes to fatally stabbing a Flatbush bus driver (part of then Brooklyn and Queens Transit) on the 46 due to fare evasion. That was what led to the proliferation of the plexiglass shields as standard bus equipment even before the pandemic when they ended up having it extended, with the Bush being the pilot depot as a result of the stabbing. To be honest though, the agency needs to treat fare evasion as the problem it is. The fare enforcement on the express bus as well as commuter rail is stellar, but that also needs to extend more to the local/limited/BRT/subway too. And they also need to address local buses that have the OMNY reader out of service when a bus route is in service. I had that happen to me on Sunday on two different New Flyer buses: 6121 on the 125 to the Hub on interval #408 out of 100 Street and 682 on the 31 to Westchester Square via Edenwald Houses on interval #608 out of the Coliseum. Both bus drivers noticed that I was trying to use my OMNY card and they were surprisingly very understanding about the out of service OMNY readers on their buses.

No I was not able to confirm for sure.

I would definitely be talking with them; all I need is a way to register for the Wednesday meeting. Just looking at what they wish to do to the W20 and 25 is incomprehensible. Perhaps I could understand the W4 going to Yonkers Metro North via Getty Square. They should really look to extend the W21's operation so that it could also operate during middays on weekdays.

If I may add to this, I believe that they eliminated the Oneida Avenue stop from the 16 and 34 along 233 Street in both directions for the BxM4 to and from Woodlawn Heights and the Van Cortlandt Av East stop on only the Woodlawn Heights direction for the BxM4 along 233 Street, though the 16 and 34 are no longer supposed to stop at those places.

Thank you so much for these redone signs as well as the other ones you did under my recent request.

Bx11: Parkchester | Virginia Av - Grant Circle | via 170/174 Sts Bx11: Washington Hts | 179 Street - GW Bridge | via 174/170 Sts That is how I want it, like how the Postal Facility bound B20 looks like: B20: Postal Fac (all one frame), Spring Creek (top) Stanley Av (bottom)

Could you split the neighborhood names into their own section, like how the B20 has it set up heading for the Postal Facility?

Can you do an Hanover front for these signs: Bx11 to Virginia Av - Grant Circle: via 170/174 Sts Parkchester Bx11 to 179 Street - GW Bridge: via 174/170 Sts Washington Hts Bx4M to Benson Av - Westchester Sq: via Grant Circle/Met Oval Bx4M to Longwood - Westchester Av: via Met Oval/Grant Circle Bx40 to Throggs Neck Ft Schuyler: via 180 St via Tremont Bx42 to Throggs Neck Hosmer Av: via 180 St via Tremont/Balcom

Huh?

Is Bartow projected to get more older Novas from the North Shore (Queens Village)?

They went all in for the 40/42, but kept the 36 simple like how it initially appeared when the revamp was in the early stages. They still have the 30 reading Co op city Earhart Lane, with the Boston addition. In addition, they have the Queens half of the QBx1 (the 50) simply read Pelham Bay Sta LIMITED, almost like how the QBx1 read the same when it once ran as a loop. However, they might just write the Pelham Bay Park reading entirely given their plans for the 50 to go to Fiorello. Before I forget, they restored the via Broadway via Amsterdam reading for the 100 to Manhattanville W 125 Street and they gave new interval numbers to the 18; they now have them in the 920's, the 950's and the 960's.

You mean to tell me that there was a conductor in between the two motormen that ran the 42 St on the 3 and 4 car trains that had run at night before!? I just found out some days ago under a YouTube video that the TWU Local 100 made a deal with the conductors from the Franklin to have them move over to other lines in the BMT so that it can be saved. They determined that the Franklin was losing profit having a dual crew and they used One Person Train Operation as a ploy to make it profitable with just the motorman at the helm.

Most likely

Are the routes not being rerouted going to keep their 1984 digital signs? I've seen that the 40/42 is keeping its stacked 1984 sign of Throgs Neck Ft Schuyler/Harding Avenue, but some of them might be getting the older Luminator signup like it was the early 90's (the 35/36 being two routes I've seen slated to get signed that way from when Staten Island went through a sign change of its own for its express routes towards Manhattan when they were revamped. For example: where it was once West Midtown Central Pk South via Church St via 6 Av on the X1, its just signed as West Midtown via Church St via 6 Av on the SIM1C).

One example I can think of is when someone activated the emergency brake at 42 Street Grand Central on the train one time. It bypassed 59 and 86 Streets before stopping at 125 Street.

Thank you for this! The Wakefield bound 39 has a stop at 238 (Nereid) on Edson that is not announced and the Norwood bound 16 has a stop at Baychester on 233 that is not announced, although it might not matter by the time that the redesign commences in June. The Pelham Manor 16 currently announces the next stop as Webster on 235 when the bus stop pole for Webster on 233 was moved to the end of the New York platform at 233 (Woodlawn) for the Metro North.

There were two guys smoking on the Pelham Bay Park Local that I got on of in car #1916. They got off at East 177 Street so fast, i couldn't even tell the conductor what happened on her car when they left. Based on this, I came close to believing that the interval was going to blow up. The connecting set was to 1670 as the south lead to Brooklyn Bridge and north lead to Pelham Bay Park. I wonder if this has happened before, but I cannot believe I let that go so easily.

That is the same thing I have always wondered myself; they often go broken on the Nova and New Flyers. In the New Flyer's case also, they replace them with the bigger Helvetica numbers that were supposed to be meant for the manual Helvetica condensed displays. These are mainly used for the Local and Limited bus orders, but I do not know myself why they haven't gone with digital interval number boards for those aforementioned orders.

That bus driver on the SIM10 cannot be serious. It makes me glad that the dude on the route told you personally.

It was used at one point to indicate shuttle service via Broadway and 63 Street when the train as well as the train was cut to 57 Street on Sixth Avenue from February 22, 1998 to May 22, 1999 - though it used a single S colored in yellow. That S was written in black.

That's not right; this is grounds for a cab break in or even worse!

34 Street is a better turnaround point, in my opinion.