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Clocked in Far Rockaway-bound n32’s passing by Central/Washington at the following times:

3:10, 3:20, 3:50, 4:00, and 4:03

“Headway-based” operation sure totally works...

/s

3775 on the Q114, pulled up to Parsons/88 @ 1:36 PM. No sense of schedule, missing runs, AND an O7 on what eventually shows up. Should’ve just stuck with the Q52/53...

This is EVERY...SINGLE...NIGHT.

Idiot B/O on the Q44 who left me behind at Hutchinson-Lafayette in the rain can go die in a hole

The fix for all this is actually really simple & pretty obvious tbh.

Make the n24 100% closed-door in Queens, particularly the segment shared by the Q36 along Jamaica Avenue (before it becomes Jericho Turnpike in Nassau County).

What ISN’T a solution is n20G/H’ing it (i.e.; splitting it in half).

Wow, this totally does not look like the 5:07 PM W20 trip out of Bedford Park has been going missing everyday, and completely overwhelming the 5:21 PM W20X trip as a result...

/sarcasm

1:38 PM Q113 out of Parsons/88 is a no-show.

Unacceptable~

I am due at Woodlawn at 10:30, what the f**k is waiting at 59th Street for 20+ minutes?!

WHAT

THE f**k

IS THIS?

NONONONONONONO, f**k OUTTA HERE WITH THIS BUMASS CUOMO SHIT

#6029 on the Q44 has no functional charging ports

Rode this exact same trip not even two weeks ago. Left Jamaica at 9:10, arrived at Port Authority at 9:43. No excuses for incompetence.

They owe me 30 minutes of time now. Time I shouldacouldawoulda spent sleeping at home.

The train I’m on left Jamaica Center at 905 PM and has been going sooooooooooooooooo painfully slow for the entire time it’s on QBL. Like...it REALLY does not need to take an hour to get from Jamaica Center to Port Authority.

And there REALLY REALLY is no need for an train to take much longer than an train leaving Forest Hills at the same time to reach Queens Plaza. i.e.; I should’ve just transferred to the at Forest Hills.

I’ve got questions myself...why are there  trains [supposedly] operating at all (much less to the Bronx this late into the evening rush) on a day like today?

Umm...how?

Hah, all the schedules tell me leaving Jamaica Center on the  at 9:10 PM “should” get me to Bedford Park (give or take some statistically favorable transfers/connections) to make it to the 10:35 PM W20 trip.

Welp, BOTH the IRT Jerome AND IND Concourse decided otherwise.

How’s your Thursday night going?

#makequeensboulevardGagain

TIL the I❤️NY artics on the Q114 & the I❤️NY artics on the Q44 have their USB charging ports in different places

And you don’t even wanna know how messed up this 6:33 PM W20X trip is right now (especially because Amo doesn’t do this trip anymore iirc).

7 minutes ago, FamousNYLover said:

Also N88 PDF schedule is going to Nikon Days.

 

Nikon Days?

6:19 PM W20 trip to White Plains purposely left too early, stranding everyone (and me) who got off the  train at 6:17 PM, BEFORE the trip is due out.

I think I finally figured out why the 6:43 PM & 7:00 PM weekday n/b W20 trips are always crowded (and late), and the 7:15 PM is always half empty.

So yeah, someone please nerf this 6:19 B/O & add TWO additional n/b weekday W20 trips from Bedford Park to White Plains departing between 6:20 PM & 7:00 PM, please?

The crowding imbalance with these particular trips has been going on for at least four years, with no end in sight.

On 4/5/2019 at 10:33 PM, Mtatransit said:

Their Sunday service is especially ridiculous. Even NICE Bus does better

Sunday service (or lack thereof) is painful to say the least (I'm looking at you, bi-hourly 5 & 6).

The 1 & 2 just recently got more Sunday morning service.

Yet, the 4 continues to suffer with early cutoffs on Sunday nights.

Personally, I'm not a fan of hourly service to/from New Rochelle on the 7 (or hourly service to/from White Plains on the 60).

The amount of time the 20 gets between timepoints on Sundays is all out of whack; too much time between White Plains & Fort Hill Road, yet nowhere near enough time between Fort Hill Road & The Bronx. And, good luck finding a Sunday trip on the 20 to/from White Plains that isn't super packed in the middle of the day. Like...the half-hourly frequency is enough to get everyone on-board, but once a trip on that frequency becomes late (or generally gets more people than usual) or even worse, gets a 40 footer bus assigned to it, all hell breaks loose.

One trooper is immune to the Sunday chaos though. The 78 (which uses only one schedule variant everyday).

On 4/12/2019 at 12:25 PM, NY1635 said:

NICE finally released their spring schedule. The only noticeable changes are the n79 getting Saturday Service restored and some n22x trips beginning at Jamaica Terminal.

https://www.nicebus.com/NICE/media/assets/NICE-n78n79_April2019_web.pdf

 

That intermediate gap is such an eyesore tbh. The n21's iteration of this gap is also odd, albeit different. On weekdays, there is no midday service on the n21. But on Saturdays, the n21 has a consistent hourly frequency, including midday.

16 hours ago, RES2773 said:

Anyone know of plans to restore n27 weekend service? Even if at lesser frequency, I think that'd be a big service booster. I believe they implied it would happen in their July 2018 plan but I'm not sure if a timeline.

Any plans/mention/demand for restoring weekend service on other routes that previously lost it? (i.e.; n16, n19, etc;)