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Add this to your list. Today's 1600 QM20 departure (bus #3027) left 34th St 20 minutes late for unknown reasons creating a lovely 50 minute gap in the PM ramp up.
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9 hours ago, Lance said:
Structural maintenance on the viaduct if I'm not mistaken. Starting Monday, all
service will be local-only between 74 St-Broadway and Queensboro Plaza in both directions.
Thanks...I thought they finished this crap when they had this same service pattern in late February. Oddly enough the MTA hasn't said a peep about this or posted anything about it on their service changes.
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Does anyone know if there's a slow speed order on the <7>? During the AM rush, trains seem to crawl into Woodside to the point where a local train might be faster than the express.
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Some drivers head down and take the tunnel. I've had some 8 PM hour buses that flip down to the tunnel and take the SX route or even keep going on the GCP.
It is a shame they got rid of that 00:00 run for the QM2, since it was a good late bus to catch if I was hanging out in the city late at night. Now the latest bus option is the 23:30 QM20 and that's it. I don't think too many people will miss the late hour runs from Bay Terrace back into the city. I took a 7:30PM QM20 once into the city and there were only 3 people heading in, including myself.
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No surprises here since they had so many issues in early April with the supposed cutover. Now everything is back to business as usual with blocks on the eastern end while they figure things out.
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2 hours ago, Lawrence St said:
CBTC was active in the 74th St area a few weeks ago.
That area hasn't been for at least a week or so based on my morning commute. Just regular ol block signals there.
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For the first time in a couple weeks, CBTC was not active this morning around the Main Street/Willets Point area. Wonder what happened since that was the only segment it was mostly active on since the beginning of the month.
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6 minutes ago, N6 Limited said:
This is part of the customer service problem. I'm sure the passengers didn't take a
only to be held up for 20+ mins getting to Main Street, especially when there are most likely locals passing by during that time. They could/would have switched at Junction Blvd or Willets Point if they knew the train was going to be held, many of them have to transfer to a bus!
Indeed...piss poor management at the Main Street terminal if there were no technical reasons to hold that train like a signal or switch malfunction (there weren't any as per their Twitter). That stuck
from today ended up taking nearly 40 minutes to finally enter Main Street. Got stuck on the bridge around 7:30PM and didn't enter the terminal until after 8PM. That's just absurd.
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And a perfect example of this...there's a
that's been stuck on the Roosevelt Avenue bridge now for over 20 minutes waiting to enter Main Street. No service advisories either about problems at Main Street.
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Not sure if it has been discussed here before but what is with the gridlock that plagues Main Street on the
and during the evening rush mainly between 6-8PM? There's usually a conga line of trains waiting to enter Main Street and only a trickle of trains heading back west into Manhattan or the yard. There doesn't appear to be any prioritization between waiting and trains waiting to enter the terminal either. Is it an issue with being a three-track terminal or just poor terminal ops with getting crews ready to head back out?
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11 hours ago, RestrictOnTheHanger said:
When a new pick is in effect, do all drivers switch runs? Seeing different drivers on th CP express runs i usually take, not all are good.
I'm happy that my express bus driver this pick changed back to the same one from last summer. He's fast and bobs and weaves through traffic like a pro. The good ones even wait in Manhattan at the last pick-up until it's near their scheduled time to depart for Queens.
I'm always afraid of getting the driver I would sometimes see last summer on the QM2. He would always stay in one lane, never go above 25 MPH, and would be horribly late every day.
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On 4/7/2018 at 1:37 PM, bulk88 said:
CBTC was off friday evening rush hour. Eastbound to Main Street, screen said "Bypass" when I got on, at 74th a blinking "CBTC available" message came on and stayed on in addition to "Bypass" till Main Street. Its still not being used during Rush Hour.
This morning, CBTC only seemed to be in effect from Main Street through to Junction Blvd. They seem to be smoothing out the terminal ops issues slowly but I'm not sure what happened to the stretch between Junction Blvd and Woodside that was supposed to be active.
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3 hours ago, QM1to6Ave said:
Do B/Os ever get in trouble for using codebreak signs or other forms of clearly incorrect signs when they are deadheading? I get a kick out of those signs, but I can see it confusing or annoying people.
I wonder this as well. I just saw a bus deadheading back in Queens with "X81 Randalls Island" on its destination sign.
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Did something happen to CBTC on the
? This morning, I noticed solid greens at Junction Blvd.
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Something is definitely going on with the CBTC signals around Main Street and Willets Point. Second morning rush in a row with trains running slower than normal through the area. It's as if the signaling system can't handle all the switch moves that go on in this area at this time.
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Did the April pick take effect yet? Riding on MTAB today, I saw the same drivers I've been seeing for a while.
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The flashing greens were definitely alive for the morning rush on the 7 today. Though I'm not sure if that or the snow started to mess things up. One
run was skipped while the run I took felt a bit slower going through the switches after Willets Point and around 74 Street.
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Does anyone know what time of year picks take effect for MTAB? I just wanted to know when I can expect my normal bus driver to change. It last happened around the first week of January and I have a feeling the next one is coming soon.
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The Queens buses still have snow chains on their tires this morning so it'll be a fun day of ripping up asphalt.
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19 hours ago, ViaWaterViaChurch said:
Yikes, what a ride home today on the QM2. Traffic was unbelievable horrific today. I don't know if it's because everyone was trying to rush home before the storm or what. My 6th ave QM2 that left at 4:45pm didn't get to Linden/Whitestone Expy until about 6:30. This is usually about an hour or so trip. I've never seen the Queensboro bridge so backed up. My driver actually went via the Upper Roadway to get to Northern which I'm not sure really saved us any time because it literally took us about a half hour to get from the exit off the bridge onto 21st street to where the lower roadway would turn onto Northern.
I actually felt bad for the poor B/O. He was clearly very frazzled (though he was a very skilled driver) and had it by the the time I got off.
I got stuck in this mess yesterday afternoon too. There was an accident on the Manhattan-bound lower level. But there weren't any traffic cops in Queens Plaza yesterday so the whole area gridlocked causing 30-45 minute delays crossing through Queens Plaza...it was a nightmare.
Meanwhile, this afternoon, the buses are booking it back to NE Queens with low traffic and probably low passenger volumes.
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Anyone here know how the Q34 Roosevelt Ave short-turns are run? They start at 5:40 AM out of 149 St but there's no scheduled return trips until 6:37 AM. Do the drivers just hang out, deadhead back, or go run another route after?
A similar thing happens in the evening with three Roosevelt Ave shuttles running from 11:08 PM to 12:08 AM but the origin of the bus is unknown.
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5 hours ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:
Same question I asked. They note that it runs on BusTime... Put up a schedule online! The QM2 was becoming crowded which is why they started running the QM20, but still. No schedule to show when it runs.
They have a special MLK Day/Day After Thanksgiving schedule which basically shows hourly service. I guess the MTA is too lazy to add Presidents Day to this schedule.
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On a random note...why is the QM20 running with a special President's Day schedule that isn't published?
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service will be local-only between 74 St-Broadway and Queensboro Plaza in both directions.
only to be held up for 20+ mins getting to Main Street, especially when there are most likely locals passing by during that time. They could/would have switched at Junction Blvd or Willets Point if they knew the train was going to be held, many of them have to transfer to a bus!
Express Bus Advocacy Group
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The move back to 57th St would help traffic-wise but probably won't happen due to DOT turn restrictions along 57th. But they should encourage more drivers to bypass CPS. I sometimes see drivers turning onto 57th, then Madison, and then back onto 59th in order to beat out the ridiculous traffic jams that can occur outside the Plaza Hotel. If DOT can get involved, they need to find a way to increase No Standing restrictions on 59th to get more cars moving instead of ridiculous merges for parking/standing lanes that appear and disappear.
Additional SX trips would be nice, though taking away some local service in Midtown would suck for those riders in order to remain cost neutral. Maybe they can convert a QM2 trip to a SX, since there's only one lonely trip on the schedule so far.