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Car #4054 has arrived to NYC. Looks like it’s accompanied by another car in this image:

In my personal opinion, I’m not a fan of going forward with Low Floor LRV’s but it isn’t a deal breaker either. With that being said, since is choosing to go this route, I think they should at least have the foresight to make the line easy to upgrade it to a Light Metro or Conventional Rail if the ridership justifies it in the long run. I doubt that’ll happen but it’d be nice.

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-public-transit-expansions-increase-access-affordability-and-safety

As @Lex said. Tracks E1/E2 immediately become tracks D1/D2 (the QBL Local Tracks) north of Court Square.

To be fair, Crosstown is Sandwhiched between not only Culver but also Queens Blvd, so I can see why the would want to get that out of the way.

Nice to see someone bring up Maintenance as a point for Pro-Deinterlining. Its pretty refreshing TBH.

Sending the Express on QBL would require rerouting it via 63rd. Which wouldn't solve the problem with trains merging at 34th-Broadway.

I've conceded to taking LIRR. Only hop on QBL if I have no other choice now.

No wonder Maintenance Productivity is low…

Someone mentioned Money Problems and Spending Money Foolishly? I was having a similar conversation with one of my maintainers the other day. IIRC, some incorrect measurements with the track or something delayed Culver CBTC by 2 years? Not to mention that Transit has a bunch of different systems all doing the same job or something like that. Same with QBL CBTC having issues on top of still being incomplete. And it shouldn't have to be that way at all, although given this country's track record with Public Transport, I can't say I'm surprised. Look where that's got us. On the note of OPTO, those could've been jobs that could've be redistributed elsewhere, especially now with the Shortage of Crews. Although Staff shortages on the MoW side of things is worse atm.

Who wants to bid? https://m.publicsurplus.com/sms/nycdcas,ny/auction/view?auc=3155438

So these would be out of the Question?:

Compared to other transit systems in the world, the 211’s would be well within its time. As for the 211T’s, Open Gangways doesn’t mean they’re articulated.

LMAO. Remember the first week of the R-32 Retirement Ceremony? Yea, me neither.

The Shuttle thats running now

It’s signals are 80+ Years old already, plus it’ll be sandwiched in between 2 CBTC Lines, those being Queens Blvd and Culver (once the section between Church Avenue and West 8th Street-NY Aquarium is complete) so it only makes sense to upgrade the line with CBTC

Is FASTRACK still a thing or no?

Let this sink in… the 30 day passenger testing is allegedly next month or December

Yes.

Being delivered.

https://new.mta.info/document/98291#page=10 First Option Order (640 Cars) is anticipated to arrive between Feb 2025 and Dec 2026.

I’ve had a similar case happen to me before but I work 2 jobs and one takes an hour and a half to get to. While my quarters takes me 35-45 minutes to get to from home on a good day. IDK how it is for RTO with T/O’s, Conductors and whatnot. but MoW is allowed to refuse overtime if we can’t do it for whatever reason (although most people generally don’t).

Transit Emoloyee’s are required to have a minimum of an 8 hour rest period between tours for safety reasons.

I sometimes wonder who’s behind the process for GO’s cause some reroutes to avoid GO’s are straight up weird or confusing

I shared this in the random thoughts thread…