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It's still the same thing just with swapped letters..

Behind all of this fleet assignment, this should be another reason why the should be Concourse full time. For this to work, Jerome has to stop sending trains to Concourse to be stored over the weekends, and late nights. This will let CPW to be consecutively R179, R211, and possibily R160 (if any get sent to Concourse). Those extra 130 R211s could be supplemental to Coney Island, Concourse, or Pitkin/207. Increase or service. As for SI, I agree that they could send some sort of fleet over there. But even though, Staten Island has been screaming new cars since the R44s retirement in 2010. So it may actually be better if they get R211S'.

Here we go with this 8 car R179 propaganda. I'm assuming you haven't been on the forums enough to see that many of us here on the forums are saying, the R179s are NOT moving to Coney Island, or Jamaica for the . Just so you know, the real expectation for majority of the people on these forums are for the R211s and 10 Car R179s to cover and, have the 88 R179s at 207th Street move to East New York to Increase services. Another thing I want to point out, the R211s are replacing the R46, not the R68/As. The R179s are not going to Concourse for no given reason, as when the R211 arrive at Jamaica, this results in displaced R160s returning to the and . This also allows for the and to run New Techs as well. When you said the would get R160s, you completely got it all wrong. Due to the platform length of the entire route, the will be running 150ft trains under further notice. There is no plan for any New Techs to be slimmed to 3 car 60 foot trains to accomodate this route as of right now. Time will only tell. As for the R68/As in storage, I agree with you in this case. will have to learn from their mistakes of immediately retiring older fleet as soon as the new fleet comes in, then a fleet shortage because the new fleet is being sidelined. This has been the case for both the subway, and bus division. Carry on,

Yeah, 9650 and 9660 were on the 9 today, I rode 9650 to 238th Street, and it was pretty tight. I notice since the Spring Pick there was been four 40 footers in all covering Bx1/2 trips during the day.

Well, screeching brakes should be the least of a trains problems. Our R62As, R142A, R143s, R160s, and R188s all do have screeching brakes. along with some R46s.

Westchester was this bad before?

Eh... they're doing little to the R142As imo... the entire fleet needs to be refreshed. Jerome isn't doing such a great job with the R142As.

To be honest, MBTA's maintanence is very bad when it comes to the 15, 16, 1700s, 1800s, and 1200s. The 1200s-1700s are all on their last legs, and the MDBF seems like its getting lower every month with these cars. Yes it may have been 90 degrees, but MBTA hasn't been thinking with logic when it comes to the activity of the subway cars. The 1200s have been ran to the ground every time the T takes the 14s OOS. They only need to take the troubled train out, not the whole fleet. As it creates delays, long headways, etc. But luckily, MBTA is running weekend services on the subway, so the 1400s *sixth* grounding isn't so affecting to Orange riders. This proves that CRRC shouldn't build the rest of the 1400s, and the 1900s for the red line. MBTA needs to get their shit together.

I know they only store them, never said maintain. Thats why I said when Concourse sees new trains, the may be switched to Concourse full time for CBTC purposes.

I’m just reading all of these comments, some of you guys are speaking of new trains going to Coney Island just for the . To the people saying this, you guys are forgetting that Concourse and Coney Island share the . Especially when Concourse sees new trains, the will be Concourse full time. It doesn’t make any sense for Coney Island to receive a piece of R160s or R211s for just the . It is most likely that Coney Island is going to be strictly R46-68/A when the R211s run on the . Also with these CBTC delays, the is gonna be in huge trouble financial wise, Subway car wise, and fleet wise.

This idea is not bad but, there’s only 10 trains that get stored at Concourse on the weekends, and knowing Coney Island, more than 80 (10 trains) R46s would be knocked out. This potentially could work, but they would have to manage because Coney Island is definitely gonna be the last to receive R211s.

There’s a difference between new and hand-me-downs. Clearly you don’t know what new means either. You’re contradicting your own statement.

Thank you.

Is 1896-1900 at Westchester? Or is it still at 240th. Haven’t seen it since May 2021 and I ride the everyday

No but age plays a big part in something like that. It would be preposterous if someone said something so ridiculous about a young fleet. But we are talking about the R46s here. They turn 47 in just a few weeks, and they are trying their hardest to still run, but the fleet collectively is falling apart. This is why MTA needs to put their thinking caps on and reduce the usage of these cars by putting more on shorter, or day-afternoon-evening routes such as the and less trains of the R46s on the . Yes Concourse is not able to manage this fleet, but this is why he is still at Coney Island. If these delays do continue, the entire B Division will have a mass fleet shortage. Let’s keep it real. Concourse is not the main yard for them . Coney Island is able to handle them which is part of why it’s still there. And they fail to understand that age plays a huge roll in mechanical problems. How many times has the and have been delayed by a mechanical problem? And I’ve seen it where and have been affected by these delays, and they don’t run R46s, or run them to the ground on these lines Coney Island isnt gonna get new cars for a while. They’re gonna be forced to get Concourse R68s, and Jamaica R160s due to the declining reliability of the R46s

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/941484954817286194/986749821522161694/received_778165213337927.mp4 Yup, the R46s at Pitkin are definitely fine.

I don't the should change terminals based off the time. That should be the . Being that the 's frequency is lower than the 's, it wouldn't be logical to have the to the Bronx all times.

Yeah 240th has 1826-1830; 1841-1900. Speaking off 1900, has anyone seen 1896-1900?

The 1 is usually every 4 mins

Oldest 68s are 35, youngest ones are 32. Oldest 68As are 33, and the youngest ones are 31.

I can agree, but they use about 8-11 tracks to store 's, but they had the R32s in one specific area, but they moved some of them to the southeastern side, when some is on the southwestern side. Then they use about 6 tracks to store the trains for the weekend. Though there is a sign on the barn saying "Home of the ," yet there hasn't been a single in the shop yet, so when there is one, then it is safe to say that the has officially moved to Concourse.

Can you another fleet swap checklist for everything as of Halloween like you did for the new years?

Well the has always had some space at Concourse since they've been running on Grand Concourse, but it does make sense. Why would it make sense to have a CBTC route at a yard with other routes that don't have CBTC, and will not get it for some time?

How come some LFSs are at MJQ?

Yeah an update was just sent out that most HEVs are OOS.