Lex

I shouldn't have to say this, but the MTA does not cater to you. You are not so important that thousands who live, work, or play in that part of Queens -- nor those that switch trains at Queensboro Plaza to travel to/from other parts of Queens or NYC as a whole -- should be inconvenienced just because old trains that have replacements on order are being used right now in an attempt to serve people, even if it's arguably half-hearted at times. You are a single person who chooses to avoid a single car class entirely, only to bitch and moan about "having" to do so (which you've repeatedly been told is insane bullshit in some form or other). You are your problem.

In other words, will.

What could possibly preclude electrification but not diesel?

Maybe you should stop, then. You're implying a massive amount of effort for effectively no gain...

How often does that actually happen, though?

I don't know why I have to say this, but Eric Adams was a cop.

Perhaps you've somehow already forgotten, but Queens Boulevard's local tracks feed directly into Crosstown.

This is some truly fascinating stuff. Incidentally, it helps explain why the building I currently live in has so much space all to itself. It was once a yard, likely to receive freight. Some nearby buildings that still exist -- in addition to some now-demolished ones -- may support this, as they seem to be reception facilities.

Why are you surprised?

The Bx23 says hi.

That's it?

Why would you even need to swap the and ?

I'm definitely not seeing it. You know what would save a lot of money? ZPTO. The thing is, we're not even remotely equipped to handle that, and considering the unions (for all rail operations, not just the subway, though I can't exactly fault them, given how poor job opportunities tend to be, whether in quantity or quality), we won't be. Hell, you'd be able to save far more money by not running the on weekends at all than whatever little you'd save by cutting one relay and three stops.

In other words, you just threw spaghetti at the wall. Again.

And that saves how much, exactly?

Welp...

That's an interesting proposal. If a decent turnaround can be established, that could possibly work.

In that case, I'd rather not run it at all. Why create more confusion with a(n official) branch that operates on certain days but uses a different one on others? Don't even try to bring up 63rd Street. It was boneheaded before and that hasn't changed.

Oh? Then please explain how anything that's not the -- especially anything IRT -- factors into this and what you expect will happen without talking about moving R160s from Jamaica and R179s from East New York.

The individual in question has a hyperfocus on the R46 cars.

Did you read past the comma?

Maybe you should go back over the announcement.

Personally, I think that's the wrong way for the to go, anyway.

Sure, but even then, a bus route doing what that proposed B55 is doing has no business being anything more than a stopgap while work is done on higher-order transit (say, finally doing something more with that AirTrain to Howard Beach).

Sure, but now you're switching the burden to the chronically-congested Church Avenue. The fact that it's a bus route (in mixed traffic, no less) is my problem with the proposed B55, not that they're proposing a link between that part of Brooklyn and JFK Airport at all.