whz1995

I would say R179 are doing well and solid on the although the MDBF of 90k miles does not really support my claim. I haven't seen "Door problem" on the for a while.

Actually two of the R42 are in services as in morning rush hour. I am not sure about the evening rush hour. I dont see the reason running them since ENY has extra R160 and R143.

I am now thinking that how does mta deal with those stolen/lost credit cards since they cant verify who used them.

One time I saw something like "local trains are express between 81st st and Columbus Circle due to NYPD activities" on the MTA website, so I assume that they did use the switch to skip 72nd st. Despite of the was running slow before switching the express track, it is great to see this.

There was interesting movement on the train I was on today. The arrived at the local track of Columbus Circle because there was a at the express track. Then the kept running at the local track to 72nd St and used that switch to switch express track instead of using switch at Columbus Circle.

They are emojis.

There were two sets of R42 parking at the central tracks between 111st and 121st last Sunday. I cant remember the exact numbers of them, But some of them are 480x, 481x, 479x, and 483x.

I agree, some T/O are driving slower than others. I had a rush hour A trip last week and the T/O kept braking hard before pulling in the stations and crawling to stop the train. And this was not related signals because I kept watching all the signals after he braked hard in the first station. And the trip took a little longer than usual and it was unsmoothed. Other T/Os on the A line tend to just brake slightly and kept the speed and then make a final brake to stop train. And I was also on J train whose T/O overshot the 121st station when the 121st station was just back in service for a few days. I thought there were at least three cars out of the station. It ended up the T/O walked all three cars and asked who need to get off. CBTC would definitely be helpful to prevent those.

According to the Fast Forward Plan, there is NO CTBC plan for CPW within 10 years. So I dont think BD will get any R160 in these five years. Lets just wait and see what will happen in this fall when all the R179 are delivered.

Great to know the your experience as a R179 operator. I took the R179 A first time yesterday and I noticed it was less smooth than the R46 tand it kept shaking. And the sound insulation is about the same as R46. Correct me if I am wrong, I think R179 on J perform much better than the one and only one on A. btw, MTA really needs to clean the exterior of the R179 A because there are lots of bird droppings on it.

I won’t feel surprise if they decide to take all the r179 away from ENY since JZ won’t get cbtc in the next ten years according their plan. And if that happened, we gotta see r32 r42 r143 and r160 running on JZ again.

I agree that those are off topic and should be moved to the corresponding thread. But I disagree that those are useless garbage, those are a lot better than the spammed asking "where is the new 10-car set R179 now" comments for three or four pages.

Good to know. It seems MTA is doing it faster than we thought. And you mentioned Canal St station, I wish MTA can re-configure the entrance/exit of JZ because it is the only one entrance for JZ and its shared with NQ (most of people wont take the long walk to RW exit). The exit is congested and too small.

Its not finished yet. I guess they gotta put some tiles on the wall and the floor. And signage as well.

The R32/R42 suck even at the time that they were running at J/Z. I have met three door problems that I was on those trains in the past two years. I guess that MTA just dont want to/cant take a good care of them because they will be retired very soon.

I saw one R42 on Wednesday AM rush as Z. Its the same one I saw on the last weekend.

LOL, they dont need a metrocard to ride the subway, They just jump over the machine and open the emergency door for their friends. Thats what happen in my station.

I know its mean to say, I hope those ppl get penalized if they cause service disruption intentionally. Like in Japan, the ppl(and their family members) will be fined and need to pay the loss if they attempt to suicide in the subway system.

Yeah, you are right. I tried to remember the car# at the very last second and I failed to do so. What I am sure that the R42 I saw is different than the one that was observed on 3/4. There are at least two sets of R42 on the J now.

There is another set r42 running on j with two 484x, four 483x, and two 481x

Yeah, I think they should just blame the signals. The public does need transparency but definitely not something like this.

https://erausa.org/pdf/bulletin/2018/2018-12-bulletin.pdf 40 R32 on and 56 R32 on In Nov 2018.

Yup, I took R32 last week at the evening rush hour and I saw at least 4 R32 from 125th st to Bway Junt.

I haven't seen any R42 for a while. I have seen a few R32 on the morning rush hour , but I did not see any R32 last week, not even packing at the middle track of 111st st. So I guess there are only very few sets(less than 3?) of R32 running on nowadays. By the way, I did notice that have much less delays after they swapped out R32/R42.

I wish MTA can release MDBF of R179 at their performance dashboard.