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11 hours ago, subwaycommuter1983 said:

Looking forward to seeing more r211's on the C. Now that the M is fully restored, I find it pretty annoying to see so many r46's running on the C. Hopefully the C can keep their 8 car r179's until option 1.

I'd rather punt all 4-car NTT sets off ASAP, then shift the 5-car R179s over. That would improve consistency with not just the R46s, but also the existing R211s.

7 hours ago, B35 via Church said:

The problem AFAIC isn't the general concept of microtransit (which is how the pro-microtransit folks construe the criticism) as much as it is microtransit being used by public transit providers to supplant fixed route services.... Let's just call it for what it is - it's done as a passive, gradual way of cutting bus service....

For discussion's sake I guess, I'll just leave this flowchart here from Jarrett Walker's blog for anyone to ponder where the 10B & 10C falls into this...

I'm not sure if I agree with that bolded bit.

3 hours ago, CenSin said:

This can’t be it since the was already going to Astoria at that time. It also wouldn’t be the first time the (re)opening of a line shuffled a whole bunch of routes.

Yeah, for part of the day during part of the week.

1 hour ago, 553 Bridgeton said:

They need to ditch the paper passes and tickets this would have stopped all that nonsense. They need to get on board with fare cards. 

I'd go one step further and say the fare cards really need to be compatible with OMNY and SEPTA Key, given the various interstate connections.

Me? I was at home.

For the first few seconds, I thought someone was knocking on the wall. Then the building started to shake.

As an aside, despite having no recollection of dealing with earthquakes, I found myself far calmer than I would've expected.

19 hours ago, Kamen Rider said:

maybe you all should have thought about that before you started calling for Airtrain LGA to be canceled, as that would have given the entire Willets Point station complex a full renovation. 

A good idea shouldn't hinge on bullshit.

1 hour ago, CenSin said:

Looks like Broken Windows is here to stay. What a great time to live in NYC. Now they have to treat the rest of the subway system like they treat the LIRR: it’s not a mobile home.

I can't tell if that's sincere or sarcastic...

2 hours ago, CenSin said:

If only this announcement means they’d actually make an effort to peel themselves off of the mezzanine walls and catch people obvious farebeating in front of them. I saw a pair at Fulton Center hop over the turnstiles right in front of the cops 20 feet away. They were taking their sweet time getting over them and neither of the cops lifted a leg to give the chase.

Well, the cops aren't exactly obligated to do a damn thing, but even if they were, this would still be a massive resource sink.

2 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

Oh, my bad.

Someone also said to install fare gates like these along the Atlantic Branch of the LIRR and Melrose & Tremont of MNRR.

Because you're more likely to see black people around them?

1 hour ago, Kingsbridgeviewer382 said:

Why put the time and money to train them on nearly 20 year old buses that won't last a year.

And on buses that can't really be used elsewhere, to boot...

While it's true that traffic was pretty light when it happened (it was around 1:30 AM EDT, after all), the end result was no less horrific.

There's footage of the impact and collapse on Twitter, among other places.

6 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

I was bus fanning along the B6/B82/82SBS earlier and not a single person in the span of 15 minutes paid the machine for the SBS82.

I seriously think the TA needs to temporarily discontinue the B82SBS, convert to front door boarding, or have the eagle team at high usage stops to fine anyone who doesn’t pay. This is crazy.

At this point, I wouldn't, either.

The only reason I still have a MetroCard is because the OMNY rollout is painfully slow.

2 hours ago, Kingsbridgeviewer382 said:

The  already makes local stops during the overnight hours. That change happened a year ago for CBTC work.

That was most likely implying on a permanent basis, as opposed to being done temporarily for work.

2 hours ago, RSMG106 said:

If anyone is wondering why the newer XDE40s didn't ran on the BxM4C recently, is because of complaints from passengers. Because the buses uses hard seats, Bee-Line decided to keep the Orion Suburbans until the redesign goes into effect.

So the route's getting the X51 treatment, then?

10 hours ago, Gotham Bus Co. said:

Peak service to Atlantic Terminal has nothing to do with supplemental service for the St. Patrick's Day parade.

You know damn well Atlantic Terminal was brought up to stress a point related to that supplemental service.

7 hours ago, RSMG106 said:

This decision is not good to me. I've been going to Queens via QBL before and during the shutdown, and the via 53rd Street did help with the delays near Queens Plaza, where trains interfere with one another.

 It is best for the to run via 63rd Street, and continue running on the local tracks to Forest Hills, and allow for the to be via 53rd Street. This service pattern is popular with riders, and it is sadly being thrown out of the window in favor of how it was prior to the shutdown.

So what's the plan for nights and weekends?

11 hours ago, Ex696 said:

But based on the Remix map, it looks like the short-turns have been discontinued. Unless we have to wait for the GTFS trip data to come out like for the Queens Redesign.

Unless short-turns are explicitly involved in the proposals, you shouldn't expect anything about them on those things.

3 minutes ago, Ex696 said:

For the , wouldn't it be better to just have the Avenue U-Flushing Avenue trips be extended to Ocean Parkway-Avenue Z whereas the Washington Plaza trips continue to run the current full route all the way down to Knapp Street?

No. Those short-turns cover the core part of the route and have plenty of traffic to deal with as it is.

1 hour ago, Bill from Maspeth said:

Any bus in said depot was assigned to any route in said depot.  Same is true for today.  A given bus in a depot is not assigned to the same route.  This is how NYCT operates.

Granted, when a depot has artics and/or coaches, they typically run on specific routes...

If you like Dragon Ball, Dragon Quest, Dr. Slump, Chrono Trigger, or whatever and somehow missed the bad news, well, here it is.

4 hours ago, Cait Sith said:

They won't get these MCIs. A bit of training for buses that are technically 3 or so year rentals aint worth it. Better off sending it to depots that are actually trained with them, in this case, basically all of Staten Island.

And Ulmer Park's maintenance has always been on the shifty side when it comes to their express fleet, so it's more or less their own doing.

Is there even enough space to accommodate more express buses?

2 hours ago, Kamen Rider said:

That is just the motor trying to hold the door open on a grade and not doing a great job of it. You will notice it is ALWAYS being pulled downhill.

That makes sense, especially given their age.

24 minutes ago, Kamen Rider said:

it's kinda already started:

Es are running to whitehall Street, suspending the W.

Fs are southbound on the Crosstown line.

 

With the J and M GO tonight, life is going to get interesting on the LES tonight. 

Right now, the  has to serve as an alternative to the other Brooklyn IRT routes to varying degrees, which could put more pressure on some parts of the B Division, so I'd have to agree with that sentiment.

41 minutes ago, Kamen Rider said:

I think they did it once, and only once, because circumstances warranted it... BUT... That was a specific situation that isn't present here. Longer we make the line, the more personel we need. We're already going to need a conductor for every train operator who already works the M on the weekends during the day on weekends, but we're also going to need complete extra crews. We're going to need a dispatcher at 57/6...

 

 a LOT of people seem to think "a longer line just means longer trips" without considering all the extra factors. 

Not to mention that these day-specific branches (by that, I mean one branch receives all of the service on certain days while the other branch gets everything on others) aren't exactly desirable for regular service from a passenger's standpoint. It's bad enough that we have branches like the Rockaway Park  and the peak/reverse-peak  branches, and those only see a relatively small number of weekday trains.

Metra recently announced a contract awarded to Stadler for new battery-powered trains.

While the press release doesn't directly refer to the sets as FLIRTs, the phrasing of the last paragraph and Stadler's own video on the topic indicate that they are indeed FLIRTs.

8 minutes ago, QM1to6Ave said:

I've noticed that issue got really bad since covid. People are so angry, they are just looking for any reason to verbally or physically assault anyone. Respect for others has gone to zilch since covid. I even heard a report on the news that some researchers are trying to measure levels of anger in the population because all these researchers have noticed anecdotally how much more angry people have become

I mean, have you seen the 20 years leading up to COVID smacking us in the face?