R68OnBroadway

If we had a mayor who didn't fantasize over ferries and a governor who gave a sh*t we could maybe have some reasonable fare structures within the MTA (local bus and subway $2.75, express bus $5.00, ferries $6.50)...

What do you do with the s in Manhattan and Brooklyn?

Is the connection to 6th Av within or outside fare control?

I thought the issue with the WillyB was because they were cheap and used ungalvinized steel (which ended up degrading with the weather and pigeon droppings).

A track fire at the platform at Lexington-59th forces all service through the area to be cut. What do you do?

That explains why the sb always crawls around Avenue H... I always assumed it was because local operators accelerated and braked fast while expresses accelerated and braked gradually...

Rebuilding a tunnel for the Manhattan seems like overkill, the only thing to be fixed is to trust T/Os to hit the right route on the punch box at DeKalb (which should help speed up that area). An area that could use a tunnel though would be the Williamsburg-the curves near the bridge do no favors and a 3 or 4 track tunnel would be better than the slow bridge we have today.

Do they still have those Lafayette timers on the ?

Even if phase 3 is built (which I don’t see happening for another 30 years), it’s better to just keep the at 96th until the issue of the arises.

And for what reason? If service levels are too high overnight then just cut the frequencies. No need to confuse people by sending the somewhere else overnight especially considering the fact that if anything, 2nd would have higher demand overnight than Astoria...

I say this proves you don't know what you're talking about...

I know it does, but under any plan to make Broadway reliable, you're going to need to send it to 96th and either de-interline 11th or just beef up service.

How about no? You've only moved the merge to 57th instead. This obsession people have that the must run to Astoria is ridiculous...

I still don't understand why they just don't send the to Astoria on weekends when it isn't being butchered; riders would love 8 minute frequencies and not being stuck behind a R46- in the grand scheme of things the should both be going to Astoria full time anyways...

Can someone make a station route sign that says this: Manhattan & 6th Av local 8th Av local Late nights local Brooklyn via 63rd Street via 53rd Street via 53rd stops here late nights no service, take or rush hours, middays and evenings only

Odd- by the way, is 86th getting ADA access on both levels in both directions?

Content editor should save it- do you mean you deleted the whole thing?

Wait so are they making 86th accessible in both directions now?

Aren’t they planning to build one once the work is complete?

Have they done anything around the Bergen St junction? Trains crawl so slow there (even the which goes straight and has a gentle curve).

The point of the to Euclid is not really for Broadway access but to increase service that is currently limited by the Cranberry segment- sending the to Hoyt after Whitehall is the easiest way since you have provisions and Bay Ridge is fine with losing direct Manhattan local service since they transfer anyways. With the City Hall curve you end up with 24 tph of service which I'd say is good considering future development along the corridor. You'll also be able to have Fulton be less isolated with the transfers downtown. From here you can also get some decent service to all the branches in Queens and encourage development along areas like Aqueduct since it'll now have halfway decent service. Can you do the same with extending the ? Sure, but it'll be much more expensive since you'll need to tunnel through several streets in Manhattan since WTC is too close to Cortlandt for the track to be extended. Note: this would be in combination with the plan and a deinterlined 34th-Broadway. As for 59th, I'm with you on that. Trying to deinterline CPW presents issues of higher crowds at 59th and also screws up runtimes- sending 6th via the local doesn't help the since the only other true express segment would be 4th and sending 8th via the local would create runtimes that rival the worst bus routes (Inwood/Washington Heights to the Rockaways via CPW local is painful slog and it's not like you can swap it out for the since the ride to Jamaica would be terrible too).

Why not take the Lefferts one and then take the Q52? There’s no demand for the service you’re suggesting...

I know the is running express... however is still doesn’t make sense that you’ll be giving RPK more service than Lefferts as well as creating scheduling conflicts. It’s better to give the most to Lefferts and then split the other between the two lower-use Rockaway branches.

How about this: Weekdays splits RPK/Far Rock. Weekends/late nights runs to Far Rockaway only with the / running between from Broad to RPK. It’s not that hard guys...

Why create more scheduling issues by having the to RPK and have the the same when you can just have to Lefferts and the splitting the Rockaways?