Bay Ridge Express

1 hour ago, Lex said:

And what, pray tell, did he "clean up"?

8 hours ago, Storm said:

I've noticed that people who take the subway rarely care about what model subway they're riding on...

though the only thing what riders care about is getting from point A to point B.

Eh, I'd say the latter is priority #1, but they also rant about the models here and there... Most people I know prefer NTTs, or as they call them, "those new trains with LEDs."

Posted 2 days ago? That's how you know they really wanna spread anti-Cuomo sentiments.

12 hours ago, bobtehpanda said:

Keep in mind that Lower Manhattan used to be a lot busier. Peak Manhattan population was in 1910 at 2.3M people, and nearly all of those people lived below 14th St more or less. Today the business district has moved to Midtown to be walking distance of the railroad terminals, but for most of the period when the subway was being built that shift hadn't happened yet. And a good chunk of Lower Manhattan was high-density slums replaced intentionally with lower-density NYCHA, or in the case of the notorious Five Points replaced with the Federal buildings around Worth St.

Right, that was the point of said proposal, that not everything in Lower Manhattan needs to run within a block of each other anymore.

In many areas of the city, especially Downtown Brooklyn/Lower Manhattan, some subway lines are extremely close together as a result of their origins. So, an idea that I had was, in a consolidated system (aka the )--what if, some sections of some lines that are too close to another line were terminated in order to focus on building projects in outer areas, or streets that are not so close to each other? E.g. in Lower Manhattan btwn Broad and Kenmare the (), (), and  are all pretty close to each other. So, for example, what if the  rerouted from Lower Manhattan and went northbound on 2 Av instead, or southbound via Chrystie and Park Row like the proposed  would? (They could also be part of the 's route, idk). Ofc, I understand that sometimes bc of population density it is good for multiple routes to be part of the same area (e.g.  and ,  and proposed Northern Blvd line) though I think that there is an excess in some areas of Lower Manhattan in particular, esp since subway service there is typically just a block away from another.

2 hours ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

Don't get too ahead of yourself. 70+ million people still voted for Trump. The Democrats BARELY have control of the House and Senate.They certainly don't have a mandate, that's for sure.

I don't know what exactly you're banking on, but of course things like voter suppression, gerrymandering, propaganda, the size of states relative to their population, and the electoral college are designed to give Democrats unfavorableness in Congress, whether you agree with them or not.

Turns out...

>People hated Trump so much that the GOP lost the House, Senate, and WH

>Yang is now running for NYC mayor and has a big chance at winning

9 hours ago, trainfan22 said:

 

 

 

LMAO

Sounds like she discovered how to levitate.

Btw, was the SIR just running normally today? Nothing was posted on the  website.

4 hours ago, LaGuardia Link N Tra said:

Well this thread I made in 2017 didn’t age too well. (Even though we’ve only just entered the 2nd month of 2021)

 

Welp, you got a 4 out of 8. In some contexts, that's considered passing.

Whelp, deBlasio just issued his order...

I think that for the most part, the roads will be fine. Cars drive on them all the time and clear the snow.

8 hours ago, Stormxx said:

Before: chambers street looked like this: https://nypost.com/2018/05/25/mta-overhauling-forgotten-subway-station-after-post-report/

Now, Chambers street looks like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Chambers_Street_-_Nassau_Line_Platform.jpg

Hardly sense any difference at all. Except a few elevators and ramps here and there. I understand this is a difficult time for the , and they suspended a bulk of their capital program, but they need to do something about this station. It isnt affecting just us, but imagine the  riders every day having to board a train at Chambers. I really feel sorry for them.

They really only did that because of the Post?

7 hours ago, NewFlyer 230 said:

Rehabbing such a big station is very expensive and we all know the MTA’s financial situation.

Man, you really can't get the  to do anything without making it cost billions of dollars.

3 hours ago, R10 2952 said:

To me, the clearest answer to replacing Cuomo with someone better is a primary challenge from the left.  Zephyr Teachout 2014, Cynthia Nixon 2018... maybe Howie Hawkins 2022? Cuomo will have a harder time steamrolling primary challengers this time around I think, if at least part of NY voters wake up and smell the coffee. 

I highly doubt Hawkins would want to primary with a D affiliation.

58 minutes ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

We already have a Progressive in office with de Blasio, and the City is a mess.

58 minutes ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

I vote based on the candidate. If more people did that we'd be better off. 

Well, that's certainly a contradiction. You say you vote based on the candidate, yet you wouldn't want to vote for any potential progressive that isn't deBlasio. Not saying you should, just pointing that out.

38 minutes ago, GojiMet86 said:

Yet your conservatives haven't worked at all to get NYC, either. They're bowing to a bunch of QAnon nutjobs that just attempted the closest thing the US has come to a presidential coup because the man you voted for president egged them on. Your favorite Queen Nicole loved that too. She objected to the electoral certification AFTER these buffons stormed the building with their Nazi and confederate flags. Not a realistic, pragmatic way of trying to win the hearts of liberals in the city.

The GOP wasn't always the crazy party it is today (at least, in terms of conspiracy theories and supporting insurrectionists), but alas... I don't really support Dems either. To me, it's like eating popcorn and watching the fight all play out. As long as the country (and state) is divided, we won't get anywhere, whether it's right or left...

Time to cancel that book.

22 hours ago, Lex said:

The distance between these two streets is approximately 880 feet. The full platform length would be about 525 feet. In order for this to be remotely feasible, the station would need to be a mid-block station.

That's totally fine. I was thinking of the big 2 Av stations in place while writing this.

19 hours ago, P3F said:

Stops at Avenue U and Avenue Y with nothing in between? That has to be a joke. Let's ignore the large housing complex that could be served by a stop at Avenue X, and instead put a stop next to an auto parts shop and an abandoned 7-Eleven.

There is a shopping center on the other side of the street at Avenue Y, but I agree with you. A stop at Avenue X with an Avenue Y exit would suffice.

11 minutes ago, Vulturious said:

The  extension south of 34 St is really a bad idea, it provides some extra service on the West side of Manhattan.

What's so particularly bad about that? Though I do think that if something like that were to extend to 14 St, it should have a connection with the . 

4 hours ago, T to Dyre Avenue said:

I suggested the possibility of the  as the local and the  as the express, with both serving Queens via 53rd St and both going to Brooklyn via Fulton. Then the upper level can stay in use full time. But I get the feeling there will be blowback over making the  fully local (as there was in 1990, when the MTA suggested it to deal with budget cuts - “something something, famous jazz song” 😆).

The  is already a very long route, and having the  be express in Brooklyn and  local and  local in Manhattan and  express would confuse riders.

I say, we don't need the upper level. There is the  train 700 feet with a transfer at the next stop in case one wants to go uptown via CPW. There is also the option of reconstructing the station to make it an express station and/or potentially have  trains run on the upper level instead of lower (as a last resort since this may perhaps be quite pricey).

4 hours ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

No, I'm talking about people in this forum that jumped to conclusions, trying to guess what this guy did wrong without any factual information. I'm still waiting to see how this all plays out.  I know the guy from Progressive Action. We get along fine. He's in my advocacy group. He's already posting about this.

Thank you. Lots and lots of misinformation floating around... and on Citizen, they've been pushing the narrative "from MTA officials" that he refused the drug test... Just give it time. We don't know what happened yet.

On top of that, there's calls to sue the MTA (despite what simply appears to be a brake failure [not confirmed btw] Who knows, MTA officials might "investigate" and simply blame the driver to avoid whatever crap they'd have to deal with otherwise).

19 hours ago, NewFlyer 230 said:

I’m sure once things with covid die down you’ll probably see the homeless inside the place.

Already seen it on day two.

Hopefully, with the help of COVID aid/additional funding under this new federal administration the projects can actually be completed this time.

6 hours ago, GojiMet86 said:

https://www.railwayage.com/passenger/n-y-governor-outlines-306b-infrastructure-plan/

 

 

1 minute ago, RapidoNewLook said:

Nah, even for a limited I doubt there's enough ridership. People would just use the B6 LTD and B15, which works fine as is. I do wonder about a B15 LTD, Bed-Stuy to JFK, which could attract more ridership by speeding the trip to JFK- Though it doesn't seem like there's much ridership to go around anyway with air travel being down like it is.

I think the whole concept of the B15 (a Bed-Stuy to airport route serving ENY) is pretty weird in the first place. I'd expect ppl to be taking an airport bus to/from hubs, like Downtown Bklyn and whatnot. But I also practically never use the route so if anyone would like to explain that, please do.

Beautiful! I especially like the second picture--it portrays the beauty of the Brighton Line well.

12 hours ago, lormier st said:

Who thinks the B15 should have another route where it goes with the B83 then the B6 to Bensonhurst

There is no demand for that. Not only would there be an extensive amount of backtracking to get to the B83 route in the first place (backtracking btwn E 98 St + Van Siclen Av), most of the route would be redundant if it would be overlapping with the B6. Only way I could see it maybe working is if it was a limited service, but even then, going from Bed-Stuy to Bensonhurst via the B83 and B6 routes would definitely not be the fastest way and (depending on the route's frequency) the overlapping bus routes would overshadow the demand for such a route.