transitkidzae

Ummm yeah. Euclid ave is a gap station anyways. And I would prefer to have full time exp service over Fulton and full time service to both Mott ave and rock park. What made that merge south of Euclid and south of Rockaway Blvd any different than when there’s 3 ‘s running one to lefferts and the other two that need to go to the peninsula? Not everything needs to be deinterlined and there’s also nothing wrong with interlining. Some of y’all have the strongest opinions on TA and have never even been in transportation or truly understand how transit operations even work. Thus leading y’all to arguing dumb points or opinions that literally make no sense or have no true basis in reality or logic. Just a couple post ago someone is damn near talking about running the system how it was basically in the 70s but yet my idea of extending the to Lefferts and eliminating the in lieu of extra service that runs Direct into queens from kings hwy full time was perceived to be crazy and impossible... (Yes it can get dicey around queens plaza depending on who has control at the time but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. The infrastructure exists to make that happen very easily (HENCE WHY SERVICE RAN THRU THERE BEFORE) and it’s not about CBTC or not. The NTTs can all be ran in bypass outside of CBTC the same way it’s done now when operating CBTC enabled equipment through non CBTC enabled ROWs.) (this would be no different from keeping the and just extending them either to kings hwy or back up to continental except it streamlines this service into one line for commuters that then only need to decide if they want an going into the city, or the bypass via the crosstown (seeing as not everyone enjoys going via the city, and there are more general commuters on the crosstown these days and the crosstown line would be more integrated into the main line systems again by either eliminating points of transfer or streamlining commutes into just one train ride with one transfer without having to leave one station to get to the next. (example: a person at kings hwy looking to get deep on the QB line without going thru manhattan has to still transfer from the to the and then to the just to be able to avoid the city but yet it’s asinine to run full time service from kings hwy via the cross town straight into the queens Blvd line again? The local along QB could eliminate the need for the over there and allow the to be used to become a crosstown line “of sorts” again going via the bridge and broad st back into the 4th ave line via the tunnel and out to 9th Ave while you would still have express service down QB to 179. same with the and . It allows now full time local and express service so that way the commuters of your lines aren’t losing any of their current service but gaining some slightly more streamlined availability, slightly shorter commutes and more points of single in-station transfers.

What about… discontinuing the and starting full time service on the Kings Hwy-179 (Culver LCL via crosstown/ EXP via QB) thus allowing the to have full time LCL & EXP Culver service, plus providing an easy way for commuters of the culver line to keep their access to manhattan and commuters on the crosstown to have full time service going into queens and direct access w/o needing to transfer to all of the QB line. Also, full time extension of the to Lefferts, eliminate the Rockaway for full time service to Far Rock & Rock Park.

in all truth and fairness, I do feel the early on pre-probationary passing period conversation should be had because its all apart of those beginning stages from the list to the actual first stages of the job. This is an extremely long waiting list and a lot of times being able to indulge in these conversations and get such a in depth view of what its really like can help anyone to 1) really know if they want to continue investing the time (because it is an investment) in waiting or if they were already called just continue through with the pre school car stages. While 2) on the other hand for those of us whom definitively know that they do want to continue to see it through can get to be more acclimated, knowledgable and PREPARED for all stages upcoming, most importantly school car. There's nothing like being able to prepare all the people coming forth to be able to make their experiences as QUICK and SEAMLESS as possible. (might even result in, on a grand scale, of there being conductor classes that can move faster through training because of being so pre-exposed to what's to come) *now granted, maybe the better suggestion should/could have been to start a new thread illicitly on what its like to be in school car and the entire first year of probation; the differences between "classroom and the cab-room", how probationary conductors reacted to and handled their first times experiencing out of the ordinary situations on the road. but to almost dismiss the conversations being had as not valid to the nature of the group just seems a bit close minded, don't you think?