Vulturious

From what another RTO personnel has said to me, it's not really possible because of Broadway Express connecting to the 63 St/2 Av line. Unless the local tunnel can go over the 60 St tunnel and then under the 63 St tunnel, but who knows how possible that will be especially with how steep that might end up being. Or they could always just go under the 60 St tunnel to begin with. Regardless, it would be an expensive project unless customers want to change how their commute goes.

I think I shared a map of a new connection between Jay St on the tracks to the outer tracks at Hoyt-Schmerhorn Sts a while back. I had a couple of ideas and one of the things I had to settle on was an at-grade junction for southbound trains coming from Jay St seeing as that area is already complicated enough. Unless there was a connection to the old Court St station that allowed for service to return there, I highly doubt this would be an issue. Unfortunately, from what I remember hearing this from a TO, the connection isn't possible on Jay St side of things. Something about the lack of bellmouths if I'm not mistaken which would've been very helpful had it been there and less service disruptive. Though, to be fair, the 63 St connector had to widen QBL to allow for both lines to connect.

One assumption I could come up with is that the for a very long time was the more flexible one in where it operates. Before Astoria, it was to 57 St-7 Av, before 57 St, it was the to 21 St-Queensbridge (and at some point to Inwood-207 St for however long because half of 8 Av was shutdown), and before that was to 57 St-6 Av. The on the other hand was usually fixed on where it would go and operate along even when it was rerouted between local and express,it stayed consistent in it's routing between Astoria and Coney Island for decades.

They were transferred earlier this evening to Pitkin Yard.

You just stole my words what I was about to say. If you and the rest of your NIMBY friends and neighbors said no to the Airtrain to LGA, then Mets-Willits Point (Willits Point Blvd originally, and a local station to top it off) would’ve been accessible maybe either now or next year. Be careful of what you wish for! What you didn’t wanted back then is now what you regret now. And is anyone complaining about the lack of an Airtrain to LGA? From Mets-Willets Point I should add? I have yet to see anyone really care for that loss.

trains are single-tracking around Queensboro Plaza while running express to Manhattan since there's no switch from Astoria to get to the upper level. Very interesting, kinda sucks that they'll be running 15 minute intervals, but can't really do much else.

R211S 105-109 and 110-114 (production sets) are at Kawasaki Plant in Yonkers with one of them waiting for the pilot set to be accepted into service.

Don't think it would've been worth the cost either way because of how close said infill station would be to 21 St-Queensbridge.

Probably not a good idea to split up the 60th St tunnel like this since it's already limited as is with how many trains and 2 other lines running through there. While it frees up how many trains are going through Broadway, that doesn't really give it any service boost either.

As much as I wouldn't mind the going into Manhattan, it's not possible from Hoyt-Schermerhorn unless you reconstruct the tunnel in the process. Originally, the IND was planning on having Crosstown be part of a loop that would've had the 53 St tunnle be a 4 track tunnel rather than the current 2 track tunel. I'm of the opinion they would've also had IND Jay St portion be 6 tracks wide similar to Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts layout. This obviously didn't happen because of the Fulton St line coming into the picture after, the IND were rather ambitious people especially how extravagant some of their proposals were along with what we currently see today so it's not far-fetched to think they didn't do something because they just didn't have the finances for such. Anyway, back on topic, not sure how possible it would be to run the into Manhattan without being forced to reconstruct the tunnels in the process. It would definitely be quite expensive to pull off and the incentive to do so isn't that big unfortunately.

Guess it just boils down to personal experience which I can see to some extent, but obviously my experience is much different than yours.

As much as I want to agree with you, seems rather out of touch for you to say this 🤷‍♂️.

Not as productive and pretty counterintuitive if you ask me. Even in the short term, it would suck because 5 cars are in the shop while many other 5 car sets have to wait their turn as opposed to yards like Pitkin, CIY, and Jamaica yard being able to handle 10 cars on one track in their shop.

There should be enough in the base order to cover for both the and , the only problem is whether or not 207 St will be able to have 10 car length maintenance shops. Otherwise, those R179's on the will not be going to the and neither would the 8 car R179's on the will be going anywhere.