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So at this point are all 4100-series in service besides 4150-4159? That would make the around 50% NTT now - when are the R46's going to start getting axed?

There was supposed to be a third option of R160s? If I remember, the last of the R160s were delivered in early 2010 (the 9803-9942 R160B cars assigned to Jamaica Yard) and that was to be the end of the R160 order Interesting to think that the age difference between the youngest R160 (9942 delivered in June 2010) and the oldest R160 (delivered mid 2005), is greater than the age difference between the newest R179 (January 2020) and the oldest R211 (June 2021).

Which Brooklyn section is too long? Hoy-Nostransd or Euclid-Bway Junction?

Why are we suddenly so concerned with smoke when we have old 75 footers running in service with no smoke alarms and no emergency intercoms/safety mechanisms?

Can someone explain to me how (lack of) "smoke alarms" pose a problem for the R211 running express? Correct me if I'm wrong but the R46/R68 do not have any smoke alarms to speak of onboard (with the amount of people smoking on trains nowadays I have not once heard a smoke alarm go off), and are arguably far more dangerous death traps because the storm doors are LOCKED and do not always open in emergencies. Why are the R46/R68 ever allowed to run if they are that unsafe, but the R211T's are somehow a safety hazard??

Heard an R211 on the Liberty El at around 7PM headed southbound so there's definitely at least 1 set still running.

"Buy American" is not nonsense - that type of thinking just leads to more outsourcing which is horrible for the economy in the long run and is objectively seen as a policy failure nowadays. The problem is why are only two vendors capable of building trains for the MTA?

Whoah whoah, nobody said a thing until this point about this being a major flaw with the trucks? If that's the case, then this is very bad, worse even than the R179s. With the sluggish pace everything has been going it wouldn't surprise me if the R211s are grounded until well into 2024.

Pardon my ignorance, but why does an issue as minor as the station announcements/FIND system warrant pulling all R211 (minus pilot). Seems like a massive overreaction. They can fix one at a time and have conductors do the old fashioned announcements in the meantime, not like they're doing all that much anyway.

Sooo is this some minor glitch that'll get quickly resolved or is the whole fleet getting taken out of service indefinitely á la R179s in 2019/2020?

Does anyone know if all R211 sets are running everyday, or are they starting to take 1 out as a "spare" as the R211 fleet grows? I just want the R46s off the as soon as humanly possible.

I think late 2024 is realistic. Even before then, the is likely to be all NTT and the will probably get the R46s as the final part of the base R211 order gets delivered.

Yes I spent many years commuting on the R46s but those cars are in terrible condition now. Add to that the anxiety of being locked on a 75-footer with no emergency intercom and no way to move between cars, I cannot wait to see the R46s leave the for good.

Best case scenario we have 12-15 R211s in service by end of year? Would that mean the R46s start dropping off the by year's end?

You assume their mommy and daddy pay tax lol. Mommy and daddy probably sponging off the taxpayers,too.

Rode on 6226 literally yesterday so definitely not true.

So when the literally had to take on the most dilapidated hand-me-downs, all was fine? The is not a high-ridership, high priority route like the or the Lex so yeah, for now, it'll have to deal with the crappy R46s. There is literally no other option right now - the R46s will ride off into the sunset on the Broadway lines.

Why are Coney's R46s worse? Have you seen the Pitkin ones? they are, no joke, falling apart. Coney got mostly Jamaica R46s which were in better condition to begin with.

Yeah the intercom is absolute trash... I wonder if the has made Kawasaki aware so they can fix this on future deliveries. Legit the announcements are inaudible. I was on 4060-4064 Friday night and the AC also went bust from Fulton St to 42nd/PABT. The train got hot inside real fast.

Oh well, riders had to experience this pre-2019, riders can suck it up and be fine too for a few years.

What's the update with deliveries? Looks like there are 4 sets delivered and in service now. Are there any delivered but awaiting entry into service? Which #s are coming next?

For a brand new propulsion system, it sure sounds a lot like the 1996 stock on the Jubilee line (which I happen to like).

I don't think weekend service is demanding enough for rolling stock problems to 'cripple' service.

About as likely as your idea of the converting R143s onto 8th avenue service. You really just can't help yourself with these awful, nonsensical takes, can you?

The will be the destination of choice for all R46/R68 trains until the very last one is retired. So Broadway will have to make do with using older equipment - which is fine for Broadway in all honesty, it is nowhere near as busy as Queens Blvd or 8th Avenue at rush hour, partly because Broadway runs such a redundant route throughout Manhattan AND because it isn't really much of an 'express' if it only skips like 2 closely spaced stations at a time.