subwaycommuter1983

28 NTTs for the "A" train.

The C can wait until option 1 to go full length. The A and C need to be 100% NTTs before 8th Avenue CBTC is live? What's ENY going to do with the 8 car r179's displaced from 207?? Keep them idle?? Willie B can only handle a certain number of trains per hour.

They don't need to be idle during the weekends. The NQ trains can use them during the weekends. The MTA still has the option to run the B during the weekends. The B used to run during the weekends in the past (to 57th st though). More local service is needed in CPW during the weekends and the C by itself doesn't do justice and A and D trains need to remain express. Just look at 72nd, 81st and 86th St during the weekends. It's literally a zoo. It is not 100% guaranteed the BD will get r211's. It's still possible that Jamaica may get some of the option order of r211's and send some of it's r160's to the BD.

Looking forward to seeing more r211's on the C. Now that the M is fully restored, I find it pretty annoying to see so many r46's running on the C. Hopefully the C can keep their 8 car r179's until option 1.

It depends on the issues. Yes, there has been instances where the B has been suspended partially or totally, but there has been other instances where the B has been rerouted via 8th Avenue. Lets not forget that 6th Avenue is getting CBTC, so the B will need the techs whether it's r160's or r211's.

I heard the UFT is suing them as well, which is silly. If I were a public school teacher who works in Midtown, I would take mass transit to get there. Traffic is horrible and it's practically impossible to find parking in Midtown.

The MTA needs to order option order 2, so that the subway car shortage can be eliminated. Let's not forget that ridership is growing, "B" and "D" trains need to be fully NTTs due to CBTC. Also, the MTA will get more money through congestion pricing, so they better not make excuses for not purchasing option order 2.

That's 26 NTTs for the "A" train. I wonder how many NTTs does the "C" train have now that the "M" train is back to normal service.

I thought the Ts weren't supposed to run express.

Exactly, it's up to the train yards to decide the train order and how many trains per fleet are they going to run per day.

If it weren't for the r32's, the joke would have been believable. In the event that 5 r211's get pulled from service for whatever reason in the very near future, the r46's would fill the gap. Let's not forget that the r32's were retired before the r211's entered service.

April fools!!! 😂

The r46's occupy about 50% of the "A" train fleet. The "A" train currently uses about 42 trains. Divide that by 2.

The ~750 r46's are split between Pitkin and CI. The majority of the r46's are in currently in CI. The number of Pitkins r46's will decrease or is already slowly decreasing as more r211's enter service. Let's not forget about the r179's on the A/C trains.

My guess is that the MTA may be prioritizing the delivery of the r211As since it's a larger order than the r211Ss. There are people out there that are criticizing the fact that SIR is getting new trains before higher ridership lines like the "1", "3" and "D" trains. It's possible that these SIR haters may not be aware that the r44's are older than the r62's/r68's.