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22 minutes ago, Jsunflyguy said:
The older PIS was implemented prior to GPS being common. The newer color ones ate fairly accurate. Though if a minute or two raises your ire it wont matter where you look. Another thing to keep in mind is the advertised times are *departure* times. So the RR isnt trying to necessarily depict when the train will arrive.
That's definitely good to know.
As an aside, I have to remind myself not to mentally autocorrect "PIS" to "POS"...
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12 hours ago, checkmatechamp13 said:
Also there is a survey they published on Twitter regarding what their official motto should be: https://t.co/HS4MQSTpUp
And every one of them is cringeworthy...
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4 hours ago, habbyy said:
I observe it everyday, it might not be "slow" compared to usual traffic, but compared to the speed at which the train moves in manhattan, it ended up with me noticing this behavior well into not even a year of riding this line , idk what it is exactly ,but like I said, the trains suddenly move slow when traversing between borough hall and nevins, i will start recording daily just to show haha but yeah idk what causes it, they are always very very slow going between these two stops compared to the previous speed between the other stations in manhattan
That's what you meant? That section has speed restrictions in place so trains entering Nevins Street don't derail on the sharp curve. It's standard operating procedure.
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40 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:
Is there a reason why NJT does not run direct trains from Penn Station to Meadowlands during game days?
How are they supposed to make that connection?
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2 hours ago, 4 via Mosholu said:
It's more than likely Rogers Junction that is just making this slowdown more evident.
At that hour?
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24 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:
I don’t know what’s so bad about hot cars, it’s not as crowded, and you sweat off a few pounds. Win-win!
Why not ask someone that had heatstroke?
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1 hour ago, EastFlatbushLarry said:
there's a severe bottleneck on Flatbush av. northbound from avenue p to the junction basically. to this day, those traffic signals aren't properly synced. ask any bus operator from Flatbush/Jackie Gleason/far rockaway depot(s) or anyone who drives/commutes that way after approx. 7am on a regular basis. so anyone looking to get from the kings plaza/mill basin/bergen beach area to the
(or 
for that matter) would be wise to slide down avenue U via the B3
Don't forget the grid-related oddities and the design of Kings Highway east of Ocean Avenue. Those two things add onto the issues the B9 faces, especially since it's still better off doing what it does now in order to serve people that live in the relevant parts of Brooklyn.
Honestly, even if you were to sync the lights from Avenue P up to Avenue H, the intersection with Nostrand Avenue is still too dicey to properly transition to more typical light cycles, and that's factoring in the change to Hillel Place.
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1 hour ago, Ex696 said:
What would make them take the B3 over the B9?
A ride on the
would be longer from Avenue U, but the B3 comes with a considerably shorter trip to/from Kings Plaza and a generally higher frequency (on paper, at least, as consistency is another matter entirely). It helps that neither the B2 nor B3 cross Kings Highway, whereas the B9 does.
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3 hours ago, Ex696 said:
What makes you think it would need to be split?
The fact that you're asking this question tells me you aren't remotely familiar with the B6.
The route is a long route with three distinct bases. The first base is between Ulmer Park Depot (Bensonhurst/Bath Beach) and Flatbush Avenue. The second is between Coney Island Avenue and Rockaway Parkway. The third is just the last bit between Rockaway Parkway and New Lots Avenue. As a long route that needs a fair few turns to more effectively serve these bases while having a tendency to get stuck in traffic and generally run slower than a route doing what it does needs to, it would be far better to split it into at least two routes that overlap between Flatbush Avenue and Coney Island Avenue than it would be to maintain the one route.
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9 hours ago, B35 via Church said:
Sounds like he doesn't want any part of NJT taking these lines over (even if it were to be made easier)....
Of course. The problem is him disagreeing without disagreeing.
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6 hours ago, Lawrence St said:
They can barely do the lines they have, let alone the ones they will need to take over eventually.
So we're in agreement, then?
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6 hours ago, Kamen Rider said:
I was pleasantly surprised to see that.
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On 7/18/2023 at 4:40 PM, Lawrence St said:
There should be some sort of incentive program that NJ should have that allows new bus companies to come in and run some of these lines under contract.
As opposed to simply making it easier for NJT to directly handle operations?
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52 minutes ago, Metro CSW said:
Bruh....
Your fleet planning ideology might need an oil change there.....
I don't think an oil change will cut it.
13 minutes ago, Chris89292 said:Quick trip doesn’t literally mean quick at all, it’s sarcasm, I meant the
could go for a visit to Queens for a car wash
The relatively infrequent moves on/off the Flushing Line are already subjected to a logistical nightmare. Unless you have some sort of concrete proposal to address that, we should not be trying to lean more heavily into moves between the IRT mainline and Flushing.
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10 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:
Then how were they gonna send the
to Fort Lee over the GWB?
Who proposed that in the first place?
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8 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:
But couldn’t those going to Lower Manhattan take a GCM or Penn train and transfer to a quicker ride on the
or ?
First off, "express" does not necessarily mean "faster". Second, if you think the crowds in Brooklyn are bad, try a train that trudged through everything north of 59th Street, only to have to pick up a bunch of people in Midtown while dropping loads of others off. Combined with the concept of proximity (hell, Brooklyn has more options in one place than Midtown), it's very easy for people to get to their destinations in approximately the same amount of time from Brooklyn as it would from Midtown (GCM's depth is especially glaring in this regard).
I didn't mention this earlier, but for some who may use Atlantic Terminal (albeit a minority), it would cost significantly less than to go through Penn Station while requiring far less time on average than using a bus + subway itinerary.
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4 hours ago, Lawrence St said:
Perhaps this is because I don't use LIRR often, but why is the Atlantic Branch more heavily used then the GCM branch?
Well, for one, Atlantic Terminal has existed in some form since 1877, whereas GCM hasn't even been open for a year. Then there's the number of people trying to reach parts of Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan to consider, which neither Manhattan terminus is particularly good at handling.
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4 hours ago, Chris89292 said:
Queens Blvd line???
No, Nostrand Avenue. /s
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10 hours ago, subwaycommuter1983 said:
The reason I initially brought up the red birds is because it seems that some of the train crews that operate the A line may be stuck in the 90's. If those particular train crews are having issues with the r211's, then they should be operating the NQW, which are going to be stuck with SMEEs for the next 7 years.
As for the cameras, it is normal in any workplace to be surrounded by cameras. If staff don't have anything to hide and is doing his/her job, then he/she shouldn't be worried about being monitored via camera.
"Their" and "they" would work just fine.
I imagine the cameras are meant for seeing if unauthorized people enter the cabs, particularly if said unauthorized people try to grab the controls.
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On 7/8/2023 at 4:47 AM, Kamen Rider said:
If I say what I am ACTUALLY thinking…
people are actually refusing to get qualified on these trains. It makes running service with them difficult.
some people have said “well, just set them aside till you have enough people”… but that’s not an option.
all that is going to do is prolong the maintenance headache of keeping the R46s running as more and more people stall learning them. It’s giving in to their resistance to change. A LOT of qualified people picked off the A.
folks just need to bite the bullet and learn them. They are not going anywhere.
”you won’t catch me driving that thing…” needs to stop.
That's a level of NIMBYism I wasn't expecting to see.
It certainly doesn't instill confidence in continuing to use human labor in revenue subway operations...
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17 hours ago, B35 via Church said:
Queens' street grid/layout & this city's highway network doesn't make it feasibly conducive for the MTA to concoct some route panning b/w somewhere in The Bronx & JFK.... Your best bet by far would be some point to point route (and even that would be rather cumbersome).... The problem with that is, it would be virtually wholly reliant on the demand from Bronxites.... The other alternative to that is having such a route hitting some amount of ridership generators in Queens.... The problem with this, is that from The Bronx, you have to go through way too much of Queens to get to JFK - which is the very reason having Q44's run to JFK would be an asinine idea.....
What I want to know is, what amount of demand even exists for this..... The MTA's gonna learn real quick that Bronxites won't be interested in a LGA route that runs from Co-Op City through Flushing..... And here we are, talking about a Bronx - JFK route.....
This is just random for the sake of being random.
If we're to do this, it's certainly not with buses. (This is an even harder stance than the one I have on that B55 proposal, and I feel the biggest issue with that is the transit mode.)
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3 hours ago, xD4nn said:
I doubt the MTA would go with BYD after the CRRC scandal.
Why would CRRC be necessary to turn the MTA away from BYD?
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(or 
for that matter) would be wise to slide down avenue U via the B3
could go for a visit to Queens for a car wash
to Fort Lee over the GWB?
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