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New schedules are out. No start date from what I have seen however.
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2 hours ago, checkmatechamp13 said:
The new system start is going to be delayed (it won't start October 1st) but is still expected to be sometime before the end of the year.
Where did you hear this? I was looking forward to my commute getting shorter next month
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Where does it say that the N71 will only run between Farmingdale State and Amityville on weekends? The Nice website literally never says anything about that.
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On 7/11/2023 at 1:44 AM, Cait Sith said:
4. Yeah.....about that Q10 extension, heard that caught the axe. A LOT of people on both ends hated the idea and rightfully so, that was one of their worst ideas.
If that’s the case, I am disappointed. Other than the proposed 73rd Av route, the combined Q10/64 was the only other change near me that I was looking forward to, since I preferred what the Q25 and Q65 had from the original draft.
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38 minutes ago, checkmatechamp13 said:
Would the new system (assuming there is an S51 within a reasonable time of when your train arrives at Ronkonkoma) allow you to take the following train and sleep in a little bit longer in the morning, or would you still have to take the same train you do now?
With a well timed S51 to/from Ronkonkoma, I could probably save 50 minutes in the morning and about an hour in the afternoon.
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On 7/6/2023 at 5:00 PM, The TransitMan said:
Yeah I kind of figured. It would be good to expand those destination signs.
Ouch! How early do you get to Ronkonkoma? I know the S63 has one trip to Patchogue via Holtsville, which leaves around 6:55?
Yes. Let's see if they follow through because they went through he#/ adding "S40 via Middle Rd"
I get off the train at 6:40, so I could take the S63, but the couple of times I have taken it, it drops me off later than the schedule says, and the 7A has been very consistent for me, at worst being a minute or two late.
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On 7/4/2023 at 10:25 PM, checkmatechamp13 said:
I think @jaf0519 is correct. I believe they will also attempt to put some of the major corridors on the destination sign (e.g. "via Montauk Highway" for the 2 or "via Middle Country Road" for the 58)
By any chance, would it work to take the 7A to Patchogue for the Montauk Branch? (You'd get to Jamaica about 9 minutes earlier compared to the Ronkonkoma Branch)
I could do this and have done it a couple of times, but 1) I can’t always leave work right away and usually would get to the bus stop after that 7A passes by, 2) at least at Ronkonkoma, the trains are roughly every 30 min, so if one is canceled, its better than an hour wait. There was one day the 5:31 PM train at Patchogue was canceled and if I went that way I would have gotten off the 7A at around 5:00 and would have had to wait for the 6:31 train. 3) Plus, a few times the 7A has been early and I have just barely made the 5:28 PM train, saving me close to 30 min, so overall I’d rather take my chances at Ronkonkoma.
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3 hours ago, The TransitMan said:
I wonder...
Now that the "Feeder" routes are somewhat gone. Will the NEW routes have "S92" OR just simply "92"? It would be funny to see the S2, S4, S5, etc. Also, hopefully the destination signs on the Xcelsiors will be programmed to look better. I'm not expecting MTA style destination signs BUT at least spell out "NRTHPRT"
I am going to guess that there will be no “S” since if I remember correctly, they refer to the lines as Route #, not route S# in the final draft presentation. And as someone who just recently started a daily commute from Fresh Meadows to Holtsville (torture, I know), I cannot wait to see the schedules. The fact that I get out of work at 4:30 and the earliest train from Ronkonkoma to Jamaica that I can catch is the 5:55 because of the 7A only running every 70 minutes in the afternoon is infuriating. 30 minute service on route 51 can’t come soon enough.
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Question: I’ll be starting to commute on the LIRR from Jamaica to Ronkonkoma next month and am confused about the fare. The MTA website is not consistent with how much a monthly pass from zone 3 to zone 10 is. When you plan a trip from Jamaica to Ronkonkoma, the monthly shows up as $301, the same as the fare chart pdf. But if you plan using Find your Best Fare, it says a monthly is $334. Which is it?
Also, is it possible to get a monthly Uniticket for MTA bus from Jamaica LIRR? I would be taking the Q65 to the train station and a Uniticket would save me a decent amount each month.
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55 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:
Isn’t the Grand Central LIRR trains suppose to be direct? How come I keep seeing Woodside as a stop?
It is direct as in you no longer need to take the subway from Penn Station to get to Grand Central, not direct as in no stops. There are express trains to Grand Central from Jamaica, but there are also local ones that also stop at Woodside, Forest Hills, and Kew Gardens.
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26 minutes ago, BrooklynBus said:
And you and the MTA keep forgetting, it’s not the speed of the bus that’s important, it’s your total travel time that matters.
You always say this, as if that makes it true. Why should the MTA care about total travel time? They aren’t involved in what you do outside this bus, whether you go to one store or two, or whether you feel the trip was worth the journey. They provide a public service, not a shuttle to your doorstep.
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14 minutes ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:
Yeah I've seen that seat and it looks like the others, sans any seat cover, hence my confusion.
I think he is referring to the buses where there is a large metal plate over the seat itself, so no one can sit there. I know on the M31 electric buses those seats are blocked off, but I don’t know if that is just because they are the electric buses or not.
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22 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:
A lot of these branches of routes that
has, they really have to start labeling them with the routing. For example, the previous iterations of the B17 should be the B17P for the Paerdegat Branch, and B17 for the regular branch.
Although, I always wondered why they didn’t have B17P buses operate via Paerdegat to Seaview Ave instead of just ending there.
What I don’t understand is why they are not consistent with getting rid of locals and limited routes with the same number. There are no Queens routes that have both a local and limited pattern with one number in the recent redesign. While that is because there are no routes that are exactly the same, I think it is weird that routes like the B6 and B41 will have both a local route and a limited/crosstown designation. They should have followed Staten Island’s route system and given limited routes throughout the city a separate number.
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NICE is adding a new pilot route, the n75 between Hempstead and Uniondale via Peninsula Blvd/Hempstead HS, weekday rush hours only.
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4 hours ago, Marco927 said:
A few weeks I was standing on the Manhattan-bound platform at Hickville trying to take a train to Manhattan at around 6 pm, on a weekday. For more than half an hour, every train arriving at Hickville were east-bound trains, even the trains arriving at the north track (Manhattan bound) were east-bound trains.
I couldn't comprehend that all the trains were east-bound. I felt l had gotten into a twilight zone where trains only run in one direction.
When I checked the newest LIRR train schedules, I found out that after the 5:29 train, the next train is at 6:35. That is a period of 1 hour and 6 minutes without any Manhattan-bound trains at Hickville. If you want to take a LIRR train to Manhattan around 6 pm to see a Broadway show, Knicks, or Rangers game, does it mean you have to plan for lack of city-bound trains around 6 pm?
I guess that is because both tracks were used by east-bound trains. Now that Third Track project is finished, when will LIRR add more Manhattan-bound trains around 6 pm? Why will east bound and west bound passengers begin to see the benefits of the third track?
Well, its the same in the morning too. An eastbound train arrives at Hicksville at 6:48 AM and then nothing until 8:25 AM. The Main Line does not have much room for reverse peak service during the height of rush hours due to there only being two tracks, at least until the third track and additional service to Grand Central starts likely at the end of the year.
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I have a question. In the draft plan, both the old and new ones, there is a bus that travels the length of 73rd Ave (the QT87 or the Q73). So clearly, they believe that 73rd should have bus service the entire length. But I noticed there are now speed bumps on 73rd west of Utopia Pkwy. Would they remove them if they routed a bus down the street, or would they likely reroute the bus? There is no reason to have the bumps either, since there is already a speed camera on the same block and a traffic light that cars would have to slow down for. This is just one example I have noticed where the city is making driving worse for people, similar to the traffic lights placed at 188th St and 64th Aves traffic circle. If an QM5 was serving Fresh Meadows, the route went from just looping around the traffic circle and making the stop, to having to deal with FOUR traffic lights.
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12 hours ago, Cait Sith said:
Not really. Their end goal is to get rid of the BxM4C. The BxM4C is a 5-day service, not 7.
I think they were referring to how the BxM4C used to be. It had daily service until 2010.
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https://www.westchestermobility.org/downloads
Westchester’s Bus Redesign Plan is out
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Today was the first time in a while I have seen a bus driver stand up to an unruly passenger. As a young kid, I definitely remember bus drivers on Queens Surface refusing to move if people didn’t pay, but its not like that anymore. And yet today at about 1:45, I saw a Q46 driver kick off every one on the bus heading towards the subway after pulling into 164 St over someone refusing to wear a mask. And then after getting some food, I walked back at about 2:15 just to see about 30 people waiting next to a parked bus with some talking with the driver about how sad it is that people ruin things for everyone. Glad I didn’t need that bus today.
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40 minutes ago, N6 Limited said:
Wasn’t there a routing via Glen Cove Rd and Westbury Ave? Or was that the N22A?
That was the N22L, it skipped both Mineola and Roosevelt Field
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3 hours ago, Mtatransit said:
I believe the routing they took immediately before they were suspended was via Mineola Blvd. I remember buses making stops at 2nd Street followed by 1 OC Rd. Did n22X have another routing I didn't remember? Was it during the old n22 Limited days
Yes, back when it was the N22/22A/22L/22X. The N22X stopped at 165 St Term, 169 St
, 179 St , New Hyde Park Rd, Mineola Bus Term, Roosevelt Field Bus Term, Post Av in Westbury, and Hicksville.
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8 minutes ago, Mtatransit said:
Looks like NICE got really creative with the new n22X routing
Instead of traveling via East Williston like I thought they would
The portion between RF and Hicksville will run nonstop along Old Country Rd to Hicksville (Since they are doing that they might as well make a couple of stops along the shopping centers along OC Rd. They could probably make all local stops and it wouldn't increase run times by much)
This is where it gets really interesting. n22X will operate via Mineola, with a stop at County Seat Drive, and will stay on OC Rd until it turns on Herrick/Marcus, and use that to connect with Hillside, with something like the routing below. Again no stops on the n22X between County Seat and NHP. NICE seems to want to try to steal some LIRR passengers by focusing on travel time here
I think the downfall of this route will be the lack of stops it makes. I think if NICE can add a couple of stops here and there it would be a very popular route, with them splitting the n24/22 like that
The routing is similar to the old N22X routing from a few years ago, except the old routing used to follow the N22 east of Roosevelt Field. And this time, for a change, the westbound trips will not use Jericho Tpke from Herricks Rd to Marcus At, but instead take Broadway and County Courthouse Rd instead.
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2 minutes ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:
Unfortunately, out of all of the depots, commuters have reported these things happening the most on CP express lines. Drivers putting up NOT IN SERVICE signs while in service and driving by or blocking off several rows of seats. I've had it happen to me pre-COVID on the QM6.
They are definitely still blocking off seats. Last Wednesday the 12:00 PM QM4 to Manhattan had three rows blocked off. Looked like they had tied a long roll of toilet paper around the armrests to prevent people from sitting.
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4 minutes ago, BM5 via Woodhaven said:
Not to mention that if this is true, some of them seem to be wasteful spending (n20, n27, n35, n43 Sunday, n48/49 Saturday), which could have been better suited for restoring some of the previous service (n19 midday/weekend service, n27 weekend service, n79 midday & Sunday service, n80 midday and Saturday service).
Also, from that presentation, based on what they say for the n22, it seems that either every other local bus would operate to Hicksville during peak hours (every hour), or that there will still be one short-turn every hour between Mineola and Hicksville. Both would complicate things for no reason and create inconsistent headways.
The N22 is interesting. Since it says faster routing for the N22X, I feel that they might be reverting it to where it cut down Marcus Ave and Herricks Rd, since then it only ran reverse peak direction. That way they could keep the N22 split at Mineola with no weekday through trips.
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has, they really have to start labeling them with the routing. For example, the previous iterations of the B17 should be the B17P for the Paerdegat Branch, and B17 for the regular branch.
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Does anyone happen to have a pdf of the Queens Bus Map when the Q98V Covid Shuttle from Jamaica to Edgemere was running?