R68OnBroadway

Just now, Around the Horn said:

Its a legitimate . On the way back down to Gravesend-86 St right now.

Since when did the  get regular service with an R46?!?!

25 minutes ago, Around the Horn said:

5678 and company are at CI coupled to 5582-5586 and on the as we speak

Was this a rerouted  ?

Has there ever been some sort of plan where the  terminates at Burnside and the  runs local north of Burnside? (Not advocating for this, just wondering if this was ever proposed out of pure curiosity.) 

On 11/28/2019 at 10:46 PM, bwwnyc123 said:

The Manhattan Bridge both the North Tracks and South Tracks will closed for train traffic due to some urgent maintenance and repairs. Reroute lines.

 Prospect Park-CI via Brighton local

 205th-34th

 via Montague, 4th local, Broadway local. 

 96th-Canal (bridge platforms). Broadway express.

 via West End after 36th to CI

 Bay Ridge-Chambers

West 4th is great for me as it means I can choose whichever CPW trunk is running better based on G.Os and transfer later.

1 hour ago, Q23 via 108 said:

Whats faster? At 59 Street Columbus Circle. Which gets to Canal Street 1st. PM Weekday Rush Hour. 

 or . 59 St to Canal.

Probably the  given its fewer stops 

3 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

Both trains get there at the same time, but the manages to get delayed a few minutes between Atlantic and Prospect Park because of the , so the is the correct answer.

In order of increasing time from 34th to CI, it goes  , right?

34 minutes ago, I FORGOT said:

8:28 PM, Friday, November 30, 2019:

 decides to close the entire 53rd Street Line, from 7 Avenue to Lexington Avenue, inclusive. No train can enter or stop at any station.

It was a decision to prepare for weekend work from 9:00 PM Friday, November 30 to 5:00 AM Monday, December 2.

Reroute: 

Also, don't put  into 63rd. It's not going to work too.

 increased service over the weekend; runs overnight

 via 8th local between 59th and West 4th then normal route to 205th

 suspended; use  

 runs to 96th-2nd as usual

 special service runs between Whitehall and Forest Hills (will only operate if QBL has no GOs that weekend)

(The  would have ended by 9 PM and does not run over the weekend.)

10 hours ago, S78 via Hylan said:

Not quite. We’re still waiting on 3020-3049.

Once all R179s are on property, are they going to go ahead with retiring the R42s?

3 hours ago, Around the Horn said:

R179 update (as of 11/21/19)

East New York  

3050-3149 (100) [12.5 trains]  

Pitkin  

3010-3019, 3238-3317 (90) [9 trains]      

3150-3237 (88) [11 trains] 

Are all the R179s delivered yet?

I know the Montauk Cutoff is that loop from the lower Montauk to Sunnyside and that the Cabin M bridge is the bridge it crosses, but what is the main line cutoff?

When they closed the Lex line for a week after the 1991 derailment, how did they structure service so as to minimize crowding?

5 hours ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

That’s not the only way. They can go back to having plain clothes officers do operations and busts on the subways and buses. God forbid they go back to tried and true tactics...

Cops have better things to do than fine farebeaters. I’d rather incur a one time expense for turnstile installation than shell out more of the budget for fare evasion enforcement that could pay only nominally in the long run. 

22 minutes ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

Spending $250 million dollars to save $200 million is questionable for sure when you are cutting service. I don’t see why they can’t address the fare beating problem with a lower price tag...

The only real way to prevent fare evasion in a cost effective way (and frankly this should be done regardless) is to design a better turnstile (which should be done given ADA work as well).

2 hours ago, RR503 said:

There was a study of this sort done for Lex-53 in the ‘80s. I believe @Union Tpke has a copy. This is definitely something that should be looked into as Midtown East gets even bigger, as well as the 59-63 link because that’s two free platforms right there. 

Could crowds potentially decrease at least a little by rerouting the  up SAS (the thought process for this being that an increase in SAS frequencies could entice some Brooklyn bound  riders to switch over). 

53 minutes ago, trainfan22 said:

Probably a noob who doesn't know all the stops yet. If I was an C/R it would take me a while to memorize stops. If someone put an gun to my head to told me to name all the stops on the  line N/B in the BX I'd be a dead man. 149th GC, 3rd Ave, Jackson Ave, after that mind goes blank😄

Ditto for the  ... 3rd-138th, yada yada Hunts Point, yada yada Parkchester...

42 minutes ago, I FORGOT said:

7:43 AM, Friday, November 15, 2019:

Three separate incidents happen:

1. There is an unauthorized person in the express tracks at 23 St/8 Av.

2. There is a door problem at a  train in the northbound express track at 34th St/Herald Square.

3. Similarly, there is a track fire at the northbound track in Grand St, and it has spread to the other track, forcing the station to close.

Reroute away!

Also, you can't fit  and  into the local tracks. Similarly,  on Culver isn't going to work without having to reduce the headways or rerouting a line, and is also  on 6th Ave, this would cause considerable delays.

 via 6th local to Norwood

 suspended

 via Rutgers/6th local to Inwood

 to 96th

 via 6th local/63rd

 via Crosstown

 to Chambers

On 10/23/2019 at 8:46 PM, Jova42R said:

Here you go!

And the link is: https://piskel-imgstore-b.appspot.com/img/58f2ff87-f5f7-11e9-9360-3b5a3ab933c3.gif

How did you get yours to work? I keep on trying to change mine but it says that the image is too big...

I'd imagine a  to Co-Op would run on the east side on the Thruway after PBP and end in the space between Bartow and the offramp and Baychester/95. If you wanted, you could eminent domain that lot at the 95/Erskine and have a stop there to serve southern Co-Op but you could just skip over that and have the people there continue to use the Bx23.

Can I have two large:

B OCEAN PKWY

B 6 AV EXP

B CENTRAL PK W LCL

7 hours ago, BM5 via Woodhaven said:

In an effort to steer things to some normalcy...

It is 1:00 AM on a Saturday.

Background: 

• The connection from the 8th Avenue Line to 53rd Street is unusable NB.
• All of 53rd Street is unusable SB due to signal maintenance and signal repair.  
•  trains are running to/from 2nd Avenue
• WTC is not accessible
• All Broadway service is running on the local track.

Scenario:

The 6th Avenue line had to be taken out of service at midnight to fix signals which severely delayed service earlier on. No service is able to run on 6th Avenue in Manhattan. Broadway line remains in service, but there has been a person hit by a train on the SB local tracks at Prince Street.

Reroute away.

Note: You must first deal with the 6th Avenue situation, then deal with the Broadway Line situation to get a complete list of changes.

 two sections: 36th-CI and Norwood-59th

 via Crosstown

 Two sections: Whitehall-CI and Astoria-34th

 NB service as normal; very limited SB service-any extra trains are terminated at 34th 

 via 60th to Herald Sq

50 minutes ago, Wallyhorse said:

No because the  does not run in lower Manhattan:

To me, for this to work, the RBB has to be a line that directly serves lower Manhattan for the RBB to get support from certain outlets that are from outside the US and still look at lower Manhattan as (even if we know better) "The Financial District."  Fair or not, to many non-New Yorkers, even if that area is actually now more residential than offices, it's still looked at by many the old way.  

You are such an idiot sometimes...

1 hour ago, bobtehpanda said:

The entire point of hooking it up to the was to save money. 

1. How many people are actually doing this?
2. Point or not, linking to QBL would just shove people onto E and F trains that have no room. The E and F are still the fastest way to get to Western Queens.

JFK is a rather major jobs center in the area and I would argue that it would be useful to have a rail connection between it and a large chunk of Queens (it would take a large load off the buses heading there).

As for the issue of QBL being overloaded, you could maybe try and extend the line to LIC on the LIRR if you wanted to kill that issue...

The point of reactivating the RBB for RX usage would be not as a faster way to Manhattan (just kill skip stop on the  for that) but to better link western Queens with the southern end of Queens.

10 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

The 34th St merge is ridiculous and not needed, but the just HAS to have the stop at 49th St...

And let's not forget the 2010-2016 era where the was the Broadway Local, the merges were so bad that you would have been better off taking the or and still get to the same place within that timeframe.

It amazes me how we still haven't deinterlined Broadway at 34th- it's a complete killer in terms of capacity and is unneeded as Broadway express does not benefit Astoria since most people are off by 34th anyways...

To get back on topic to the study, would it be possible to make the line part of some RX-like system and have it via the LIRR ROW from the Bay Ridge Branch to the Rockaway junction?