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2 hours ago, Lawrence St said:
They have been testing this thing for the better part of 2 years, your telling me no one thought it was a good idea and say "you know what, let me get a head start on programming the additional passenger info" since it's very extensive to do for each line & program.
Because that's more important than testing the more critical elements, right?
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18 minutes ago, Vulturious said:
One thing that confirms what I heard is that the R211S is a prototype. This would basically mean the MTA could do whatever to it after testing concludes with it basically the same thing with the R110's, right? It isn't a pilot and it would be dumb to not keep them around after, but it's possible.
There are 75 of them. If that seems like a prototype to you, then I have a bridge to sell you.
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25 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:
And yet that R143/R160 mix somehow got out of ENY on the road. 😂
That's not the zinger you think it is.
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7 hours ago, ABCDEFGJLMNQRSSSWZ said:
I'm not against having 4th Avenue local go via Nassau, especially since it runs basically parallel to and makes all the same transfers as the Broadway Line South of Canal St. However, adding more
and 
trains is easier said than done. Increasing to every 3-4 minutes to adequately serve Astoria on it's own would be hard because of DeKalb Junction, and Whitehall St can't terminate that many tph if you're also going to run some trains into Brooklyn since you only have the 1 center track. This might lead to an overabundance of service on a heavily interlined 4th Av, where one screw up causes a back-pedal of delays. Also, I'm not sure how used a via Montague via 4th Av local via West End would be; the rush hour 
service into Brooklyn pre-2010 budget cuts was basically carrying air.
Given that it would serve Midtown and Union Square, its ridership wouldn't be great, but it would maintain a level of viability that anything with more direct ties to the
would outright lack (hence that carrying air).
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5 hours ago, CenSin said:
If there is no route distinction to make, then the only distinction they could make is express versus local. Why not simply ◆ (express) versus ● (local) with no letter inside?
How did we go from someone implying the bullet is superfluous to someone implying the text in the bullet is superfluous?
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11 hours ago, T to Dyre Avenue said:
I still think it would have been better to just have a regular window there. This giant “SI” bullet will look silly and is pointless since there’s only one line.
And make it harder to clearly identify if the train is running local or express before it finishes pulling into a station?
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1 hour ago, Calvin said:
Starting May 22nd, Monday: On the LIRR Atlantic Terminal branch, some trains will have another train behind as one will be making only its one stop to or from their said terminal while another train will make the stop at East New York and Nostrand Av. The West Hempstead branch remains the same and the peak trip on the Hempstead and select peak trips on Babylon to and from Freeport.
Someone approved this.
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14 hours ago, Calvin said:
Headway changes are coming. For now, when it comes to the summer pick, starting in July, weekend service will increase more trains on the
and 
lines. (instead of 10, it'll be down to 8 minutes like the 
with no service changes). This will also the 
and 
lines soon. Next summer though, the 
will be 10 minutes during the weekends, it's usually 12-15 minutes.
The sky must be falling.
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5 hours ago, trainfan22 said:
The LIRR M3s are in bad shape and break down a lot, doubt MN would want them or even need them.
Metro North would probably take extra dual modes before extra MUs. I remember reading a few years ago spare parts are getting scarce since GE stopped making parts for the P32, also low spare factor. If this is factual or rumor, I don't know.
The P32 was a good engine in its heyday unlike the LIRR diesels which were always kind of meh, but the P32s are supposedly starting to struggle from what I read a couple years back.
That's not even getting into the investment in third rail shoes for cars that won't be around for too much longer.
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44 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:
What's the likelyhood that LIRR will send some M3's to MNRR to help them out?
You must be desperate. The toilet is the third door down the hall to your left.
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3 hours ago, ABOGbrooklyn said:
Why would opening up 95th street for crossovers affect lower Manhattan?
I don't know how you reached that conclusion, but you did.
Regardless, this is definitely not the thread to continue this talk on.
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5 hours ago, Lawrence St said:
Why was it logistical to rebuild the Harlem Line and extend it between Dover Plains & Wassaic, but not between Wassaic and Chatham Square?
Is there a Chatham Square north of Wassaic that I'm unaware of?
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2 hours ago, ABOGbrooklyn said:
How much do you think it will cost and how much time would it take if the MTA opened up the 95th street
wall to have trains be able to cross over past the station? Do you think the MTA would ever look into this so to increase frequencies.
Only bringing it up because the MTA announced today that they will increase R frequencies to 8 minutes during Mid-day.
Even if the MTA did that, the route through the Financial District would hamstring throughput on Broadway. You could pull a Wallyhorse afterward, but the resulting route would still be subjected to conflicts with other trains -- especially the
at Broad Street -- and a level of specialization that would render it effectively useless, much like the pre-2010 .
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5 hours ago, Calvin said:
Friday, May 14th will be the day the
Express service up and running on the Culver Express tracks. However, after that day, on the weekday rush, the 2 AM trains, 7:07 and 7:27 AM departures from Coney Island and PM trippers, 4:27 and 4:57 PM departures from Jamaica-179 St will be regular local service adding extra run time to their schedule. It's up to the day after Independence Day.
That would be May 12th.
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34 minutes ago, Around the Horn said:
While we're on the subject of teething issues and troubleshooting, I'd also like to note that the R211 is the launch customer for this new version of the Alstom OPTONIX propulsion.
If that's true (which is certainly a good possibility, though I'm only saying this because I can neither confirm nor deny the truth of the claim), then that explains a lot.
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8 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:
I rode LIRR for the first time yesterday, does no one else find it odd how all the doors open at Hillside? What if a tourist gets lost and gets off the platform by accident?
At a station that you'd either need to ride through or go through third parties just to know it exists? Let's not forget that the trains themselves aren't designed to properly accommodate standees.
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1 hour ago, Lawrence St said:
When is Yonkers gonna start building these cars?
Whenever Lincoln has parts available to ship to Yonkers for assembly. The fabs are in Nebraska (and Kobe, though I'd imagine Kawasaki and the MTA would mutually prefer using Lincoln as much as possible).
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5 hours ago, B35 via Church said:
To add to what @Calvin said, demand is simply greater on the B6 at & east of Flatbush (hence the current short turns b/w CI av & Rockaway Pkwy).
The current amount of short turns b/w CI av & Rockaway Pkwy are a better use of resources than to have any significant number of B6's short turning b/w Flatbush av. & Ulmer Park.... Furthermore, turning too many buses around anywhere around Flatbush/Glenwood (either side of Flatbush av) would loom rather cumbersome....
That's the point....
Incidentally, I had just returned from there (actually right by the elevator to the station) when I made that reply.
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1 hour ago, ABOGbrooklyn said:
Then why can't they short stop busses at Flatbush Ave the same way they short stop south bound B6 busses at C.I Avenue?
Have you seen how busy that area gets?
That's not even getting into how busy the route gets east of there.
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2 hours ago, xD4nn said:
The Q30 being cut back to QCC makes no sense. It isn't that hard to walk 0.4 of a mile. If you're lazy you can just take the Q27.
First, that Q30 branch was created out of short-turns that didn't cover that very distance you're implying isn't a big deal (by that logic, the Q27 shouldn't directly serve QCC, either). Second, the current Q30 and proposed Q75 cover a fair bit of ground as it is, so stopping short of a notable school -- which is also a significant employer -- doesn't really make sense.
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3 hours ago, danielhg121 said:
Three years seems like a joke. That's not nearly enough and just the commuter railroads? Truth is this could've happened on any form of public transit, this guy should be ousted out of the entire MTA network and perma-banned. Imagine if this happened on a regular subway train with fewer employees around.
Maybe think about this a little more?
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11 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:
What about the line itself and the older M2/M4/M5/M6?
What M5?
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39 minutes ago, ABCDEFGJLMNQRSSSWZ said:
Generally speaking, there's probably always going to be 2 main models of IRT cars (R62 and counting R143 and R188 together) in active service going forwards. I think generally, the newer cars should go to
and 
while the older cars to the less busy 
and 
. The and are often lumped together, but I find the tends to get a lot more crowded than the for obvious reasons.
I also feel like the
's crowding problem is a bit overrated; as soon as it enters Manhattan net people tend to get off at each station with the exception of maybe 116th and 110th. who have it far worse, and frankly SAS Phase II will do more to pull people off the than the .
Also, I wish they'd customize an IRT Shuttle train that it good at instantly reversing rather than just waiting at either terminal for 4 minutes (kinda ruins the point of the
).
What you want is full automation.
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3 hours ago, U-BahnNYC said:
Considering that the bulk of the R142/R142A fleet is already at its midlife (crazy to think that), will there be any refurbishments or upgrades done to them?
I think the Kawasaki built R142A's especially would need a serious overhaul. The jerking makes ride quality awful and the interiors are falling apart and looking just very worn out in general.
The Bombardier R142's are generally in much better condition, especially the supplemental 'R142S' fleet found on the
, but of course both fleets could use a CBTC update and an interior refresh, maybe adding a FIND or better side destination displays.
You, uh, may want to retract that bit.
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and 
trains is easier said than done. Increasing 
service into Brooklyn pre-2010 budget cuts was basically carrying air.
would outright lack (hence that 
and 
lines. (instead of 10, it'll be down to 8 minutes like the 
with no service changes). This will also the 
and 
lines soon. Next summer though, the 
will be 10 minutes during the weekends, it's usually 12-15 minutes.
Express service up and running on the Culver Express tracks. However, after that day, on the weekday rush, the 2 AM trains, 7:07 and 7:27 AM departures from Coney Island and PM trippers, 4:27 and 4:57 PM departures from Jamaica-179 St will be regular local service adding extra run time to their schedule. It's up to the day after Independence Day.
while the older cars to the less busy 
and 
. The 
).
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And how, exactly, do you propose to test it?