R68OnBroadway

Looks like a good opportunity to get some "fast" service as the operators will probably push it more

Some conspiracy theorist will say that Obama hired the guy to drive onto the tracks to blow them up but the bomb failed to detonate

They installed new wayside signals on the during the CBTC overhaul as otherwise no museum trains or work trains would be able to use Flushing. If CBTC fails, they can shut it off.

I mean as in how both fleets have/had major issues that plague reliability.

Which nickname for the R179 is better: R46 2.0 or Rockwell's NTTs

The switches shouldn't interfere as they don't pass through the platform or anything, and usually when the stops on the northbound side there is still about 6-10 ft of platform by the northern end staircase. If this were somehow an issue though, there are still diamond crossings south of the station. As for 49th, there still is the during busy hours. The will still stop there on weekends and late nights, just not during rush hrs and middays. Evenings could be adjusted based on ridership. For the issue, I would give the priority, and the could hold on the southbound track. Considering that the goes rather fast down Broadway, it would be more efficient to hold the and let the pass than vice versa.

Just a question: Do you think that moving the Broadway merge to 57th would help? Brooklyn-bound trains won't have to slow down to switch as the curve from 60th street is tight. In turn though, this could delay trains as they use sail into 57th. As for northbound I don't really see any problems.

Nassau is much less used than Broadway, and is essential a BMT version of Lex after Canal.

In that case the curve will remain. I still though thinking closing existing stations and replacing them with current ones is better than demolishing all of them. My plan: Alabama Av will be closed due to proximity to Bway Junction. Van Siclen Avenue remains. Skip-stop eliminated at this station. Cleveland St closes, as well as Crescent. Both are replaced by Norwood, where skip-stop is eliminated. Cypress Hills may also be closed due to proximity to 75th.

Ton of over-protective parents will say "My child is too entitled to stand he must sit and rest like a king on his way to school"

Funny how Cuomo is stateifying the livery yet he says he has little control over it.

Rather than spend extra money on new stations, I would just close Crescent, Alabama, and Cleveland. If I were to also rebuild the 5-minute long curve I would have it run diagonally between 75th and the former site of Crescent. (Cypress would be closed.) I would make sure though to have the line run in a way in which as little houses are demolished as possible, and I would also reimburse anyone whose house was demolished.

The only stations in need of renovation are Bowery and Chambers. Bowery is the third-least used station in Manhattan, and the MTA will sooner close it than renovate it, which isn't really a bad idea per se as Delancy/Essex and Spring on the are only a few blocks away. To renovate Chambers, I would convert the eastern side platform to storage and build over it. I would then restore and renovate the rest of station, but the central island platform will only get a moderate overhaul and could be used for special excursions similarly to what the old 59th inner platform was for.

They had stickers like these on the Redbirds, but today unless the car received the Cuomo treatment and/or is a R62/A, you can't tell which yard it is from if you don't know its main line.

I would do this: 207th-Utica (trains relay at Ralph Av express tracks). Local in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Service is increased to make up for service. extra rush-hour and midday service to help the . suspended. extra service during rush hours and middays. / Euclid- Far Rockaway via Rockaway Park branch and Hammels Wye. Operates 6-12 TPH. Lefferts service uses shuttle buses. operates in two sections: Canarsie-Atlantic and 8th-Wyckoff. Southern section at 6 TPH, Manhattan section operates normal TPH. Broad-Myrtle and Crescent-Parsons. service increased during rush hour, middays, and evenings. suspended.

Will the platforms be closed with the tracks or just the tracks?

Please tell me they aren't going to put in that crappy 16 minute headway again on the and split the line at Grand Concourse or 125th...

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What I would do if the RBB line went to Howard Beach: -build a concrete platform over the southbound express track roadbed for the northbound express track -construct a removable bridge (similar to the one on the 42nd st shuttle) between the southbound express track (now platform) and southbound local track platform at the northern end of the platforms -use the former northbound express and local tracks to turn trains from the north -use the southbound local track to turn a -style Rockaway shuttle (I would also build switches between the tracks north of the station so trains from any track could switch to another with ease.)

With Cuomo as MTA head, by the time the RBB is complete (if it ever is), the from Howard Beach to Hammels will be the "sub train" and after Hammels the "sea level line".

It looks good, but there are a few problems, mainly due to line length. The , , and are already very long lines that suffer from erratic service, and an extension will only worsen the problem. However, we can't really fix this issue without doing some wacky service proposal. The RBB should be built off of the Queens bypass, not QBL. Putting it on QBL would limit capacity there and the , being a local, would not attract many riders. This is more of a question, but where would you put the new NYTM? The only practical place I can think of is City Hall LL.

Probably. The is extremely slow and suffers from long headways in the Rockaways.

If I'm correct, the last time OTTs ran on the was the final week of 2008, which was with R32s and a few R40M/42s.

I actually kind of like the bulkiness (have not ridden it yet, just seen it) as it reminds me of the bulky 75-footers.