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51 minutes ago, NoHacksJustKhaks said:

The Lefferts Blvd section of the  has more ridership than both Rockaway Branches combined. Can you imagine that many people clogging the streets on a daily basis? Even with buses, traffic will be a nightmare and accessibility for those impaired will be greatly reduced... 

Nobody wants to walk 20 min to their nearest stop, consider that’s the reason you were so passionate about the Reeds Lane proposal!

My 20-minute walk is still doable. A 3 hour and 11 minute walk isn't.

1 minute ago, LaGuardia Link N Tra said:

No need to do that. It's all in terms of how the trains are scheduled

I'm talking about if there's a Lefferts Blvd train once after another and the next Far Rockaway bound train is in 30-45 minutes. 

5 minutes ago, LaGuardia Link N Tra said:

Well, people will riot if you get rid of Lefferts service. So one idea that I've been seeing recently from these forums is to send some trains to Rockaway Park. Therefore, thisll grant the Rockaways more service while meeting Ridership Demands. 

Is it possible to tamper with the switch by Rockaway Blvd to temporarily make  trains go only to Far Rockaway?

1 minute ago, LaGuardia Link N Tra said:

Well, when you think of it, there's more demand for service to Lefferts. You see the has this ..... "Corrupt". Culture of:

Less ridership > cut service > even less ridership > repeat cycle

I remember a couple of incidents that there was 3 Lefferts Blvd  trains one after another and that the next Far Rockaway bound  train was in around 45 minutes. Is there any way to disable the switch at Rockaway Blvd to only allow  trains to go to Far Rockaway? It's only a 20 minute walk from Rockaway Blvd to Lefferts Blvd.

2 minutes ago, LaGuardia Link N Tra said:

Ridership demand. 

There's more  trains that go to Lefferts Blvd than Far Rockaway?

Why can't they just alternate between Far Rockaway and Lefferts Blvd?

3 minutes ago, R68OnBroadway said:

It's nice and all that they are fixing these broke timers, but do we really need a lot of them at all? We used to operate a system without speedometers and to be fair we did well... Union Sq could be prevented if Ray wasn't allowed to operate the train in the first place, and Williamsburg's potential effects could have been fixed by simply adding timers in the most vulnerable places... it's rather sad when it takes more time to get from 125th to 42nd on CPW/8th than 7th.

Also, do they really require trains to stop at Myrtle/right off the bridge in order to be routed through DeKalb? Can't they look at CCTV from the stops themselves? The  crawls so slow through the area that you can see the individual slits in Masstransiscope. It's ridiculous. 

What is Masstransiscope?

Tripple bus bunching:

I got an R68  train for the first time in my life. It was pretty uncomfortable and slow. It had the  rollsign on it. I think the R68s are more comfortable on Express trains than local trains.

4 minutes ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

Looks like last Tuesday during that big downpour we had.

...and onto the train... Just imagine you're texting and boom outta nowhere a gush of water all over you. LOL

I've seen photos from Penn Station that were crazy too. Whole platform just flooded with water from above.

There wasn't a downpour in Far Rockaway. I was surprised when I saw those photos of stations flooded.

1 hour ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

Unbelievable... Dyckman Street on the  line...

 

When did this happen?

Someone we knew drove me and my mother home and we were faster than a R160  train on the Williamsburg Bridge. It would take 1 hour and 15 minutes to take the  to the  home to Far Rockaway. I was surprised to see that it only took 37 minutes to get home by car.

Why can't the trains be faster?

20 minutes ago, B35 via Church said:

The first post of yours I actually don't have a problem with...

Pun unintended, but sometimes you gotta talk with your feet.... I did just that with my old morning commute & are no longer taking public transportation to do so.... If you're tired of walking 1+ miles or whatever every day, there has to be something you can think of to make life easier... Invest in a bike, or have someone (relative, close friend) drop you off at the train station, something... There's more people than you might think that are doing the latter of the two (for more reasons than just quelling the amt. of daily walking)....

side note: that's a pretty impressive walking speed....

Everyone else drives to work or drives to the LIRR at an earlier time. I have a part-time job. Starting October 3rd, I'm working from 10AM-4PM. No one is available at those times. My bike's left gears are broken.

I just can't stand this anymore!

Here is my 2058 Subway Map:

I saw 2 R160  trains today. Is the  line getting R160s?

7 minutes ago, Around the Horn said:

In a move that I cannot explain, it appears that Cortlandt Street on the  will be renamed "World Trade Center" as they've started putting up the signs on the platform

Hmm... Looks like my future subway maps are true. Looking forward to the  getting extended to Reads Lane!

For those of you who think that the Rockaways have very low ridership, then your wrong.

Here are pictures of people on the Rockaway  for proof:

3 minutes ago, R68OnBroadway said:

What programs are good for creating stuff like custom track maps and editing/creating NYC subway maps? Trying to find a program to help draw out a plan for lines to eastern Queens.

Use GIMP

27 minutes ago, Around the Horn said:

The mistake you made here was getting off the train in frustration... I've been on plenty of local  trains (and even a local ). Yeah its annoying to sit through the local stops but at least you're getting there.

Dispatchers send whatever train is first local. I do think they ideally they'd make a Lefferts train local, but if the first train is to the Rockaways, they don't have much choice. It's not some conspiracy to make Rockaway trains late.

Why don't they have much choice? After a Lefferts Blvd  train passed by my  train express, there was 2 more Lefferts Blvd  trains. That was 3 Lefferts Blvd  trains in a row.

I was so pissed off from my train ride home from Samsung 837 today. What happened was I got on the  train at 14 St. When the train got to Jay St-MetroTech, they announced "Due to delays in  train service, this Queens-bound  train is going local". When the train got to Clinton-Washington Av, a Lefferts Blvd-bound  train bypassed my Rockaway Park-bound  train. It was very unfair to me since it's much longer to get to the Rockaways than it is to get to Lefferts Blvd. They should have made the Lefferts Blvd-bound  train behind my  train go local instead. I was angry enough that I got off at Nostrand Av and checked when the next Rockaway Park-bound  train was and it was a half an hour away. I then attempted to go uptown so I wouldn't be waiting on a hot platform but there wasn't any crossover. I went out of the station and crossed Nostrand Av, entered the station on the other side of the street, swiped my monthly metrocard at the turnstile and got in but I was still on the downtown platform. I took a Lefferts Blvd-bound  train to Utica Av (that went express) and got off. I checked the countdown clocks and it said that the next Rockaway Park  train was 25 minutes away. Utica Av has a crossover so I went to the uptown platform, waited 5 minutes for a Manhattan-bound  train and took it to Hoyt-Schermerhorn St. At Hoyt-Schermerhorn St, I got off and went to the downtown platform. 1 minute later, a Rockaway Park-bound  train came and luckily went express.

I got off at Beach 90 St to catch the  to Far Rockaway but right when the  train arrived at Beach 90 St, the  to Far Rockaway closed its doors and left. I had to wait 15 minutes for the next  to Far Rockaway. 10 minutes later another  train arrived at Beach 90 St dumping more people onto the platform. It was very unfair. The  to Far Rockaway finally came and I went in the last car because it was the least crowded but still a lot of people. When the  got to Far Rockaway, I checked the MTA Bus Time app for the next bus going towards my house and it said 15 minutes. It wasn't worth waiting 15 minutes for a bus which only drives me 8 out of 20 minutes of the way so I walked home.

Yesterday, my Rockaway Park-bound  train went local as well with the same "Due to delays in  train service, this Queens-bound  train is going local". The  is treating Rockaway customers second-class. This needs to stop!

It was cold on my train coming back home today when I got on at Fulton St.

Why did I see an R42 in the Rockaways on the test track one day and pulling out of broad channel another day?

There's no UPS Stores <= 20 minutes from my house. I don't like walking so much.