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1 hour ago, Trainmaster5 said:

Did you stop to think that maybe the “ driver” screwed up and not the train. I don’t know where you got on the train but was it overshooting all of the stops? Just curious. Carry on.

I saw the same train around the same time at Essex St, it was doing fine and the break was quite and smooth compared to other cars.

The reader stands were installed at last week(or earlier this week)  at 75th st station  . It is safe to assume that the reader stands were also installed at Cypress hill / 85th st / woodhaven blvd / 121st st stations. I would update when they install the readers and activate the readers.

9 hours ago, Gotham Bus Co. said:

 

The passenger counts seem to appear on the MyMTA but not on the MTA web site. (I'm tracking the same M14D-SBS buses on both.)

I do see it on the MTA website.

Is that possible to implement a block-list system like other forums? This system would automatically hide the replies that are written by the users in the block-list and provide a "click to unhide this hidden reply" function.

It is real headache even skimming through(yeah,not even reading) these "facts" again and again.

And a friendly reminder: Please use multi-quote when possible. It will take you a little more time but it will save other people much more time.

1 hour ago, VIP said:

Those doors are like the Redbirds. A hard stop the door pops open to close in .01 seconds. Not a big deal. Happened alot when the  had all R32’s 

Actually you can use a little force to open it, last time I saw somebody opened it by about 3 inches because he wanted to balance himself during a hard braking. 

13 hours ago, subwayfan1998 said:

Like I Said Before, Those were confirmed is to be CBTC testing two weeks ago. Not a transfer, yet until CBTC Testing is Passed and Completed.

Source? 

Great, the entire  line gotta be shitty again with R32's return. The Bway Junt-Crescent St-Woodhaven Blvd express gotta be returned as well(If you are a  rider, you know what I am talking about.)

BTW, I dont think 8ave CBTC will be finished/activated before MTA has enough R211s to replace all the R46s which we are not going to see in at least  two years.  So I dont see the points of swap.

5 hours ago, m2fwannabe said:

So there is no evidence yet that any of the 222 R-32's have been taken out of service.

Secondly, there are only 18 R-42's that have been living at ENY since the summer.  2 8-car trains (when needed) and one spare pair.  The 18 is frequently (weekly) changed around.

There are still 18 at ENY as of December 20, 2019 but whether there will be change-out from ENY to Pitkin (as usual) there is no way to know yet.

You'd have to check each consists every day to see if it keeps getting swapped around.  If they keep just using the same 18 and the other 32 are left (permanently?) at Pitkin may paint a different picture.

Good luck finding them regularly anyhow, usually two trains AM rush and one if that PM every weekday.

They MIGHT also still show up in weekends too (there was one on the road last Sunday, December 15).

I saw two sets of R42 heading to Board St on Wednesday PM rush. One showed up as  and the other one showed up as  . 

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1 hour ago, Abba said:

Question:

if a train has a door problem and cannot be overcome. Do they have to discharge the whole train or in some cases just the car that has the issue?

I had been two R32/R42 trains with door problem and they just discharged the whole train. But I do frequently see some trains are running with one side door locked.

Trains Rerouted

There are service changes and delays in and train service because NYPD has requested that we remove third-rail power at Utica Av.     

Southbound and trains are running along the local track from 145 St to Canal St.  

Southbound and trains are running on the express track from 145 St to 59 St-Columbus Circle.  

Southbound trains are running on the express track from 42 St-Port Authority/Bus Terminal to Canal St. 

These reroutes are interesting. 

1 hour ago, subwaycommuter1983 said:

I'm actually surprised that the r42's are still running at this point considering that ENY has all 8 car r160's and most 8 car r179's. Perhaps, the most logical reason is that the ENY r179's are still having issues.

Some of the ENY sets are sent to CI yard to get deep cleaned. 

I guess that they put R42 in service to prevent sudden dead because of being place in the yard and not running for a long time.

1 hour ago, Bill from Maspeth said:

Quite to the contrary sir.

2 trains are laid up at 111 St. overnight 7 nights a week.  They USUALLY lay up R42's there.  So since there is no J service between Jamaica and "the Junction" this weekend, those 2 trains will stay there all weekend.  The yard will have enough R160/179 to use them as morning put-ins on Saturday/Sunday.

Based on my experiences, they run R42 on  on weekday rush hour only and they run R42 the whole day on the weekend especially if there was planned service change. They had cut the service back to Crescent St on the weekend for the past few months and it was very easy to catch a R42 that I almost caught it every time.

Btw, I have seen that they lay up R179/R160 at 111 st a few times.

34 minutes ago, R68OnBroadway said:

What do you do with the  s in Manhattan and Brooklyn?

how about  shuttle between 42nd st-time sq to coney island.

2 hours ago, Richard Lewis 1 said:

R42  Train For Weekends Are Coming To Next Weekend August 17th 2019.

You probably will see it this weekend because they have planned service change which  only runs between Board St and Broadway Junction this weekend.

Btw, move on, this is a R179 related thread.

MTA is installing devices on the  line center track from Broadway Junction to Myrtle Ave. They look like  antennas to me.  They are easier to obe seen by taking the Manhattan bound train because they are placed close to the Queens bound track. I screenshot the image from the video because its hard to take photo of it.

4 hours ago, W4ST said:

It's probably a problem with the ATS system, which is present on the lines. This happened earlier this summer.

Precisely, it happened two weeks ago (July 6th).

2 hours ago, NewFlyer 230 said:

Hopefully the MTA has fixed the issue with R62A’s having dead A/C units. Honestly I think it’s more of a Westchester Yard issue because the R62A’s are also on the  and I don’t recall there being tons of cars on that line with those issues. Just look at how Westchester massacred those R142A’s and then when they transferred onto the as R188’s Corona fixed them up so well. They sound much better than they did a few years ago. 

It makes me wonder if the R32s are holding up well. I’ve rode a few on the  and they have been alright, but I know they usually like the throw they on the  and  lines since they are outdoors.

R32s were doing well last summer that there was only one time the A/C was off or dead. But they were not perfect because the damn A/C kept dropping water, the issue still persisted on a R32   I rode today.

4 hours ago, Harry said:

 

yeah, I went to City Hall last week and saw a MTA worker was using a thermometer to measure and record the car temperate of the 6 trains. 

3 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

Apparently MTA is starting to heavily enforce the dog policy.

Ironically, I saw two dogs in the subway car yesterday rush hour. I think it depends on the T/Os and conductors, so of them really dont give a shit just like some ppl get on the bus and tell the bus operators that they have no money, some B/Os would just let them take the ride and some would ask them to get off. 

4 hours ago, trainfan22 said:

There was up to three sets of 42s in service during the PM Rush today.. I believe it's usually only two at most in service during the rush.

There might be something weird going on the  ,I saw multiple R143s  and a R160 with folding chairs on the  this week.

1 hour ago, VIP said:

There’s an R160 tagged up every day. I kept telling them not to lay those trains up there but their response is, “where else can we put them?”

They also lay up NTT cars at 111st st station at night.  Hopefully those ENY NTT cars will be deep-cleaned soon.  The JAM NTT cars look amazingly good and shiny after being deep-cleaned. 

They reopened the 111st st station on JAM line. Its great to see that they could finish all the works in just five months. Which station will be next one to be rehabilitated?

11 minutes ago, Union Tpke said:

Thanks. Where is this from? Also, the B Division update isn't shown.

There is a tab named "2019.04.29" which I believe is the newest B Division assignments.