LGA Link N Train

Well. Due to ongoing Lawsuits against Congestion Pricing. All future  Capital Projects have been postponed until further notice.

1 hour ago, darkstar8983 said:

because the 53 St tunnel needs a closure of its own for repairs after being in continuous use by the  

The amount of Equipment that needs to be maintained between South of the Plaza to 50th and 8th is…. A lot to put it into perspective. Yesterday morning …or was it the day before?, there was a water condition north of Court Square where water was gushing onto the RoW on D4 Track. 

(Also, even though this is more of a Station thing, Lexington, 5th Avenue and 7th Avenue are all nasty atm from continuous use) 

On 2/12/2024 at 10:07 AM, Ale188 said:

R211 Delivery Timeline (In order of date, not car number)

Looking at these numbers I realized that I don't see the following Sets: 

- 4175-4179
- 4180-4184
- 4185-4189
 

7 hours ago, Ale188 said:

Yep!

Probably still sitting there as of now...

And from the looks of this picture. 4200-4204 looks like its finished and might soon make its way to NYC.

4 hours ago, subwaycommuter1983 said:

Bad idea.

AFAIK the Rockaway Park doesn't have higher ridership than the A. 

IMO the r179's and the r211's should only go to Rockaway Park during rush hours until a huge majority of the r46's are gone from the A.

The Rockaway Shuttle uses the same fleet as the  Line so it doesn’t matter what runs on it as long as the required service levels are met.

I was lucky enough to catch both 211T Sets, they’re running Back to Back as I’m typing this. But I gotta say, I prefer the Soft Shell’s a little bit more over the hard Shells. Outside of that, I like how the FIND Displays have the upgrade of presenting your car number and station navigation. Outside of that, nothing too crazy or Different from the 211A outside of the Gangways. I do hope that these trains are successful as they do feel nice. 

2 hours ago, LTA1992 said:

Waiting for it now at Spring

EDIT: The gangways are the place to be of you REALLY wanna feel the tracks. Every kink, every dip, that's what I'm talking about.

I'm officially Team Hardshell. Softshell gang, keep to the first half lol

Both sets are running?

So I’ve been thinking about how people demand for longer  Trains and how the  claims there’s not enough trains to run 10 Car  Trains, so I decided to do some math.

Currently, all 5 Car R-160’s are assigned to Jamaica Yard, so thats 1,290 Cars in total. As far as how many Trains are needed on Each Line, here’s the following as of now:

 - 26 Trains (260 Cars) in both the AM and PM Rush Hour.

 - 45 Trains (450 Cars) in the AM Rush and 46 Trains (460 Cars) in the PM Rush Hour.

 - 13 Trains (65 Cars) in both the AM and PM Rush Hour. 
 

 - 31 Trains (310 Cars) in both the AM and PM Rush Hour.

With all this considered. 1,085 Cars out of the 1,290 R-160’s are used during the AM Rush Hour with 1,095 Cars out of the 1,290 R-160’s are used during the PM Rush. Which leaves a Spare Factor of 195-205 Cars in case a train were to go OOS for whatever reason.

Now lengthen the  Train to 10 Cars Long and let’s assume you don’t adjust the level of Service on the line. Now the Spare Factor of trains sitting a Jamaica/Culver Yards reduce from 195-205 Cars down to 130–140 Cars. Could it be that those who are in charge over at Car Equipment determined that this spare count factor is too low for Jamaica Yard and is the reason why the  Still runs 5 Car Trains?

So apparently there’s an upcoming G.O. starting this weekend and lasting the Month until March 2nd-4th that  Trains will not run on the Archer Line between UT and Parsons/Archer because of “Signal Modernization” work.

As far as I understand, the Term “Signal Modernization” is only used when talking about the Implementation of CBTC, but AFAIK, the Archer Avenue Branch was postponed from QB CBTC so could it just be that these next few weekends could just lay the foundations for implementation later down the road?

1 hour ago, Metro CSW said:

New consists: 4145-49x4165-4169 enroute to Pitkin and 4080-84 coupled with 4140-44 sitting at Pitkin too.

 

It continues lol

Looks like the 211 Delivery Process has restarted 

8 hours ago, Metro CSW said:

They can deliver #4499 for all I care, keep them comin'!

We might go past that since Option 1 is approved and ready to be constructed once the base order is complete.

Apparently those in charge of the All Faiths Cemetery weren’t notified about the IBX Project until an AMNY news reporter brought it up to them.

https://www.amny.com/transit/queens-graveyard-hochul-interborough-express/

4 hours ago, R32 3838 said:

It's terrible at night though with the being the only sole train between 57th and 7th and queens plaza and the being the only train on 53rd st with 20 min headways. With both the and being out both trains were packed like rush hour at 1am.

Alright, so I’m headed back to my section after finishing my job assignment for the night and this random guy yesterday tell me he was losing his mind over not being able to find a train and when I pointed him to the countdown clock at Lex, next  Train was in 17 minutes. Platform at Lex-53rd was crowded anyways so I just went “well we [Signals] don’t control when the trains show up so IDK what to tell you”. Guy was At least respectful to my colleagues and I and the interaction ended there.

3 hours ago, R142A-6-Train said:

Actually, by removing Skip-Stop service.
MysticTransit has more on that: 

 

To Remove the , Essex Station would need to be modified (something I personally want to look into myself), Williamsburg Bridge and the Jamaica Line as a whole will need to get CBTC Upgrades. The curve on Marcy Avenue will need to be modified, Myrtle Junction will need to be modified, and you’ll need to improve Terminal Capacity at either Parsons/Archer or modify Atlantic Avenue on the .

8 minutes ago, Kamen Rider said:

Additionally… excuse me (runs out room, comes back with bullhorn dialed all the way up)

 

THEY ARE PROTOTYPES!

(puts bullhorn down)

there is nothing that says a full production run HAS to be built exactly as these two have been built.

changes can still be made.

That is true. Thanks for the reminder.

4 minutes ago, subwaycommuter1983 said:

It will be a huge waste of money if both open gangway trains are placed on the C.

The C doesn't have the ridership that the A, E, and F trains have.

Well you have to remember, these 2 trains are undergoing their own pilot program so depending on how successful they end up being, they might not even stay on the  for that long, but thats not my call to make.

10 hours ago, R142A-6-Train said:

Perhaps changing the propulsion would be best?

Propulsion, Motors, Trucks, Car Bodies. None of that matters in the long Run. ...well, outside of maintaining the trains and keeping them in a good state of Repair of course. 

Heck, I don't think anybody here really cares is the 268's are nearly identical to the 211's. As long as there's enough trains to provide Service, thats all thats really important at the end of the day. 

28 minutes ago, AZthefoamer said:

I am assuming that this is fake, unless anyone can confirm otherwvise.

 

(Unable to link but it basically says that the R211T will only be able to run on the C). If this is true, I assume option 2 will not contain gangway cars either.

The Bulliten did in fact, come out and they [The 211T's] will Operate on the , but I don't see what that has to do with them potentially not pursuing Gangways for Option 2. Especially when only 2 Corridors were identified at the moment where 211T's can not run Express. 

For all we know, this could be a similar situation to when the 160's weren't allowed in the Rockaways because of differences in power.

21 hours ago, R142A-6-Train said:

I'm pretty sure the R268s will be 75-Footers. Am I right?

60 footers. Don’t know if you notice but  has been trying to unify the car lengths among different car types. 

From what I remember seeing, there was a Broken Rail in the area so maybe that might have something to do with it. We’ll just have to wait and see. 

On 1/16/2024 at 5:14 AM, Kamen Rider said:

The problem with this plan really pops up when discussing car assignments.

First of all, half the reason the service patterns operate the way they do now is because of what yards are where and what they can handle. Car Equipment makes that call, not us. 

This is true but lets say (because of 8th and 6th Avenue CBTC) the Yards that are affected by these proposals all house NTT’s at the discretion of Car Equipment (lets say 10 Car 179’s and 211’s for example), would that change the circumstances of this proposal’s Feasibility or no?

2 hours ago, RTOMan said:

Misconception most of the delays start in Manhattan with that Merger by 57th Street...

Hmm 57th? And here I thought it was 34th-B’way that was the main culprit of Broadway’s Issues.

11 hours ago, R142A-6-Train said:

Let's hope they do.

There was a planned pilot program that would’ve implemented the / Swap back in April of 2020, but with the end of Andy Byford’s Tenure in NYCT and COVID also hitting the world around that time, it never happened.

I'm curious as well, do you need to provide some sort of verificiation of Employment or proof in order to recieve an Employee Badge?

On 1/7/2024 at 3:51 PM, Lawrence St said:

What is rule 10?

Put it simply, the Code of Conduct pretaining to Employees. Can't be overly critical of the Agency, (and adding onto what @RTOMan said) must have a neat/tapered appearance, be Customer Service when need be, things of that nature.

4 minutes ago, Kingsbridgeviewer382 said:

Actually, the NTSB will be involved in the investigation as they had concerns about the string of accidents in the system as of late. They referred to the transit worker that was killed in November at Herald Square as another sticking point.

https://abc7ny.com/14283053/

Welp I wouldn’t be surprised if some black helmets (System Safety) were out and about in the next few days