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3 hours ago, limitednyc said:

I the n20H should be combined with the q12. 

Unless that H is supposed to be a G, I have to ask what you're smoking.

29 minutes ago, Calvin said:

The strip map has a limit to 64 stops. The late night  service along 7 Av exceeds that number. So, only the Bronx and Brooklyn local stops are on the past strip map. 

Unless the train runs to/from New Lots Avenue, the math doesn't check out.

5 hours ago, Trainmaster5 said:

My experience with the  and  lines as a conductor goes back decades. Unless things have really changed a conductor on a n/b or s/b  has no idea of the location of a  train at the 149th Concourse station. I’m not sure if there’s a train dispatcher on duty there at all times these days. I do remember that there were connections made between the trains at the Brooklyn end at Nevins Street. A cross platform connection with a dispatcher on duty. Before my retirement the dispatcher job was eliminated and just tower operators were on the scene. I’m guessing that the connection was controlled by the RCC and not locally. I will say that any train arriving at the terminal 5 minutes or later better have a damn good excuse for doing so and a connection not authorized by supervision ain’t no excuse. Without additional running time added to a run you are on your own. Just my thoughts. Carry on.

I get the impression that the cross-platform thing is (Brooklyn) terminus-bound, as opposed to Manhattan-bound.

3 hours ago, LTA1992 said:

BRT doesn't work in NYC?

We don't even have real BRT.....

I can definitely see true BRT being used in the outermost fringes, but built in a way that would allow for a tramway upgrade when needed. Think LACMTA Orange Line.

Plenty of wide boulevards to do it.

(Waiting on the nonsense reasons why it can't be from the echo chamber)

Of all examples, why that one?

20 minutes ago, trainfan22 said:

I guess they are having trouble finding ops to do O/T for the subway shuttle as there's an advisory for multiple shuttle bus G.Os "we are running as much service as we can with the operators we have available" .

 

Except for going into the city I avoided the shuttle this weekend. I hate this Catch Bus To Canarsie G.O as I have the worst luck with the alternatives early evenings (the B17). 

 

 

If it wasn't an nice weather day today I would have just stayed home, just another instance of me wishing I had an car so I wouldn't have to rely on public transportation on weekends when the train isn't running.

Get a bike. The costs of one are far lower.

22 minutes ago, Trainmaster5 said:

Didn’t the Governor and the  announce and produce a map showing Penn Station access from the Hudson line with stops at  West 125th St and somewhere in the West Seventies a while back ? Just asking. Carry on .

You're thinking of 62nd Street.

The Empire Connection aspect isn't currently funded, but it did undergo at least a bit of consideration. It'll probably undergo more consideration once the New Haven connection is operational.

50 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:

I don’t know if this was answered already, but why is the  not running to 21st instead of having a shuttle? Are the tracks between 57th St & 63rd St also out?

One of them is.

36 minutes ago, Nitro said:

Just because the MTA is the parent organization doesn't MEAN they have the final say. The LIRR & the Metro North Railroad are two SEPARATE railroad companies. For Amtrak to run service into Long Island all parties have to consent to this including Nassau & Suffolk county's representatives. The Long Island Rail Road are sure as hell not willing to give up their tracks in Penn Station on behalf of the Metro North Railroad & are sure as hell not willing to share their ROW with AMTRAK. Move on.

Thanks for proving my point.

1 hour ago, ABOGbrooklyn said:

Does the Roosevelt Island bus have OMNY? That's the real question

I can't even remember the last time RIOC accepted fares on the Red Bus...

29 minutes ago, BrooklynBus said:

Ex696 stated:”There aren't enough places along the route that people want to go for people to use it more? What about the proposed extension to Forest Avenue 

? Any possibility demand along the B7 will grow because of it?”

 

And you answered: “The fact of the matter is, the borderline stroad east of Ocean Avenue is highly residential, unlike the more mixed portion west of Ocean Avenue.”
 

So I asked how is your comment relevant? 

If you still can't figure it out after putting the two together like this, I don't know what to tell you.

1 hour ago, BrooklynBus said:

Your comment about Ocean Avenue isn’t relevant to the B7.

Where are your glasses?

36 minutes ago, Nitro said:

The LIRR has the final say, the MTA has to negotiate with Long Island and its representatives if they demand Amtrak service in Long Island. Do you not see the political barriers at all?

I guess your name is Asinus.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is the parent organization of several entities, which includes the Long Island Rail Road Company. The sheer audacity of claiming that a parent organization needs a child entity's permission to allow a third party any degree of access -- especially when considering an effectively reversed agreement that is still active to this day -- is so far beyond stupid that it's virtually impossible to consider the person making it highly misinformed, particularly around these parts.

If you're looking for a toilet, look elsewhere.

5 minutes ago, BrooklynBus said:

What does your response have to do with the question being asked?

Which one?

4 hours ago, Ex696 said:

There aren't enough places along the route that people want to go for people to use it more? What about the proposed extension to Forest Avenue ? Any possibility demand along the B7 will grow because of it?

The fact of the matter is, the borderline stroad east of Ocean Avenue is highly residential, unlike the more mixed portion west of Ocean Avenue.

30 minutes ago, BreeddekalbL said:

How would we feel about folding path into NJ transit, per JC mayor fulop's transit white paper for governor 

Would NJT actually strive for compatibility with OMNY? If not, it's a hard pass from me.

That's not just about the H&M, either.

59 minutes ago, xD4nn said:

The arrows are the worst-performing stock NJT currently has...

Given how old they are, that's no surprise.

27 minutes ago, Cait Sith said:

 

......what are you talking about? Not a single thing you said here made any sense.

I don't think it's supposed to. It reeks of the (stereo)typical NIMBYism, particularly with the thinly-veiled pro-car bent.

8 hours ago, IAlam said:

It's not really being introduced, more like it's being introduced. The n20x (and n20L) is like NICE's version of the McRib.

For the most part, these changes seem to be good, but I'll hold my applause for them until the schedules come out. NICE still hasn't really fully solved the situation it created with the Queens to Hickville services. If it's really not interested in running through routes to Hicksville anymore they should change the route numbers. IIRC there used to be another route that did Mineola to Hicksville, I believe it was the N78 or N79 or something like that. Also s far as I'm aware you don't get the free additional transfer when you go from the n20G to the n20H anymore like they originally promised. 

It's both. They truncated them to Hicksville in favor of another Jamaica-Hicksville route, only to start trying to half-ass walking it back a few years later.

6 hours ago, Trainmaster5 said:

There’s obviously something missing in this situation. I’m no expert on R46 equipment but when you say that a train lost power where I come from that means traction power. I can’t see how that affects the AC in the car(s) on the train. I’ve been involved with other than head end operations maybe 5 times in 30 years but I have never heard of a whole consist losing power. That calls for second car operation. I’ve done it with experienced Motor Instructors without any problems. That’s why I don’t like the NTT equipment compared to the SMEE stuff. When I was a Conductor in school car we were taught how to read the signals and the iron so technically we could move the train without supervision on the scene. Be aware that any type of equipment can die at any time. The R46 is old and is being replaced but there’s no guarantee that the new equipment will be far superior than the old model. Just my thoughts. YMMV. Carry on.

If I remember correctly, that  lost all power, not just traction power. I'm not sure if that happened with that , but if it did, oh boy.

1 hour ago, trainfan22 said:

Wouldn't they send a rescue train behind the disabled train and evacuate passengers that way rather have passengers walk on the tracks? 

 

 

I was on an train that crashed into an tree branch on the Sea Beach and got disabled and they sent a rescue train right behind it and we had to walk though the cabs (Both trains was R160s) to get to the rescue train. 

That's relatively simple with cars generally built to the IND standard, but for 75-footers, that's an entirely different story, doubly so on curves.

On 8/13/2023 at 1:21 AM, Cait Sith said:

They've actually been told to stop mixing and matching the Siemens and Alstom sets together....

....yet they still mix and match the 68 and 68As together, where one set literally drags the other from what I've been told.

The logic.

That explains all the dead motors!

In case it wasn't clear, this is a joke. That said, it can't actually be good for the motors...

3 hours ago, darkstar8983 said:

yeah - probably to move trash or other equipment in and out of the worksite - why this isn't done from 11:45AM to 1PM boggles my mind though. 10:30AM you still get plenty of train traffic and ridership, especially with the rotten high school kids getting out of school.

What.

4 hours ago, Cait Sith said:

Chapter 7 is for individuals IIRC.

It covers both, but Chapter 11 can allow for restructuring. Chapter 7, on the other hand, usually ends in dissolution.

7 minutes ago, N6 Limited said:

I’ve used the Q36 Limited during the evening rush, It stopped so frequently and went so slow I’m not even sure why there’s a “limited” designation.

Did you use it on Hillside Avenue? If not, there you go.

4 hours ago, xD4nn said:

Proterra has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ev-firm-proterra-files-chapter-11-bankruptcy-2023-08-07/ 

Not the best of signs, but at least it's not Chapter 7...