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2 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

That’s not what I’m saying at all. I’m saying I would be mad at  for not running the Belmont Park shuttles and having the crowds delay mainline trains.

Earlier, you (basically) stated that the trains experiencing delays were westbound trains from Suffolk County. How would running those shuttles help if they don't even run east of the Queens/Nassau border?

7 minutes ago, U-BahnNYC said:

Is it because you simply don't like the R46, or because you are uneasy about riding the 75-footers in general? I don't mind the R46s themselves, what bothers me more is the fact that you're essentially "trapped" on those 75 footers because they just refuse to keep the damn storm doors open. 

If you take a look at some of those curves, you can see why.

2 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

I said as an EXAMPLE.

Let me use a LOCAL line then to get my point across. Say someone gets on a westbound M125 at 125th/1st and gets off at 8th Ave and asks for a transfer, and then tries to use that transfer to get on a M60 back to 125th/1st without paying a return fare.

This wouldn’t be possible unless it was a tap in & tap out system, which is the point I was trying to make.

They wouldn't be able to do that, anyway.

2 hours ago, bobtehpanda said:

It's worth noting the very specific case of "off the shelf". Off the shelf means that they're going to be pretty much exactly the same as all the other units in the country (which makes me thinks Siemens S70/700 is the obvious choice) and it means that parts are cheap. Also, all those agencies around the country using those vehicles already have spares, already have people trained, etc. so it's clearly not very hard. On the other hand we don't really have off-the-shelf high floor cars; LA Metro has been off doing its own thing for a while now, and the high-floor S200 has exactly two operators.

The NTTs are notable in that they are actually fairly expensive per car, and a good deal of that is because no one else really operates trains like NTT.

Does that mean the R179s are relatively cheap, then? They're built on the Movia platform, after all.

2 hours ago, Roadcruiser1 said:

https://pin.it/1UT8auM

Plus I am not suggesting tearing up graves. There is a section that is empty between Metropolitan Avenue, and JGN Construction.

Did you zoom in?

2 hours ago, Roadcruiser1 said:

Also I do not understand the purpose of street running. They have enough room to build a bridge over All Faith’s Cemetery.

Think about what you just proposed for a second.

3 minutes ago, HSRR said:

I too would have preferred conventional rail for future compatibility with the network. So many low risk, high reward extensions could be made with simply adding a connection and using existing rails.

1) Service into Manhattan to Penn and Grand Central via LIRR. 

2) Service into the Bronx via Hells gate 

I see this as being low floor LRV as in the IBX presentation MTA stated it would be using the streets at the terminal in jackson heights which would preclude this from ever being extended beyond what's planned today. I do not see the MTA installing high level platforms on streets.

I am happy they didn't pick BRT, but do we need a disconnected gadgetbahn with proprietary rolling stock (vs the rest of the system, which is already a problem with div A and div B trains)?

Are you talking about the old version, where they had it directly crossing more streets? That hasn't held since they modified the proposal (no such luck for BRT). The current proposal only does that around All Faiths Cemetery (and likely again to serve the Brooklyn Army Terminal).

2 hours ago, darkstar8983 said:

Might as well just close the Astoria Line then and have not done the Station rehabs. I’d prefer NTT cars and decrepit stations, not glorified waiting rooms / waiting areas to wait and see if the MTA on the off-chance ran an R160 that morning. 

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.

4 hours ago, xD4nn said:

Money, enviroment, etc.

In other words, will.

1 hour ago, xD4nn said:

1. There is not enough money to electrify the whole system.

2. Environmental conditions prevent electrification.

3. There is no point…

What could possibly preclude electrification but not diesel?

1 hour ago, darkstar8983 said:

Cars can go up to 4999 or as low as 3328. Can’t wait for these R211s to hit service - these F*** R46s are driving me up the wall and the effort I have to make to avoid them on the  and  lines, which is worse since these are the two lines I take to get to work.

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

14 minutes ago, NewFlyer 230 said:

Lol I don’t know why either, but I already knew he was a cop. That was one of the most highlighted things about Adams while he was running for mayor

I was reading the chief magazine and there is an article in it discussing how officers are resigning and quitting in record numbers. A few dudes I went to school with are NYPD officers and they themselves want to leave because of the lack of respect and terrible policies overall. Then you arrest people who legit are trouble makers and then they get released right back out on the street. So what message does that give to criminals? 

How often does that actually happen, though?

4 hours ago, NewFlyer 230 said:

It’s not going to be resolved as long as our politicians continue to be soft on crime and make excuses for certain groups of people to do what they do. The ills of our society is a direct reflection of the leadership from the top and for many of them as long as they and their friends and family are alright who cares about everyone else on the bottom. Maybe if New York City residents would vote differently instead of defaulting to voting in the same old kind of politicians that do nothing else but tickle their ears maybe we might get some tangible results. Until then don’t expect anything to change. 

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

3 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

Culver yes, Queens Blvd not so much since Court Sq isn’t *technically* apart of the QBL line.

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

5 hours ago, GojiMet86 said:

https://maps.nyc.gov/then&now/

Check out the aerial photos from 1924, those are the earliest available in this website.

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.

8 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:

that route still exists?

Why are you surprised?

3 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

I was waiting for this, there's no way people would be able to know which direction the Bx18 would go unless they knew the signage code.

The Bx23 says hi.

45 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:

Continuous service from QBL.

That's it?

1 hour ago, Lawrence St said:

When they do work on the Bergen St interlocking, why don’t they just do the following:

 via

 extended from West 4th St to Euclid Ave.

 168th St-WTC.

Why would you even need to swap the  and ?

2 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

Jokes on you I’m eating spaghetti right now.

but in all seriousness, no. That saves a lot of money not having to relay.

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.

19 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

Well considering you have to move one less switch and the relay, that should be a lot.

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

Again.

1 hour ago, Lawrence St said:

Weekend service should only run to 145th St on the lower level if another budget crisis was to occur.

And that saves how much, exactly?

1 hour ago, GojiMet86 said:

I tried accesing the service change map for this weeked, but I was directed to the MTA's internal mercury page:

https://mercury.mta.info/nyct-subway/planned-work/7670

Welp...

1 hour ago, Cait Sith said:

Did anyone check out the remix maps before they removed the comments from being visible? Some of the comments left on there were not what I was expecting, others were just.....yikes. Here's some of the ones I remember offhand.

One person wanted the B39 to go all the way to Broadway Junction from Spring Street Station, with another person wanting the B53 to only run from Sunnyside to the Bridge Plaza, having the B39 cover the rest of the way to Broadway Junction.
Another person complained about having to walk 2 blocks to walk to the train from Grand/Union from the Q54 and Q59.

The B62 saw A LOT of opposition from Greenpoint riders, a lot of people don't like the line being removed off of Manhattan Avenue.

The B55 had gotten quite a lot of praise from people.

B71 comments were loud and proud.

Quite a bit of opposition with the swapping of the B48 and B69 northern ends.

A few people proposed having the B1 and B16 swap western ends, having the B1 run straight along 86th Street instead of terminating by the train station, letting the B16 do that instead. A few people also said that the B16 should've ended at Remsen Avenue.

Two people wanted an express bus from Red Hook to Manhattan.

A LOT of complaints from the Downtown express bus riders concerning the loop. Folks are saying that the removal of the loop makes it harder to connect to other subway lines(which isn't exactly true since you got the 1, 4, 5, R & W within a short walking distance from West Street, I still think the first stop in Manhattan should've been further up either at Greenwich or Broadway). Some folks wanted Whitehall as a stop instead of Broad for the purpose of subway connections.

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

2 hours ago, R68ACTrain said:

The  is not needed in Brooklyn on weekends, I'd rather reroute it to 2nd Avenue

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.