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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.

Confirmed, saw a video and photo of it in action inside the cab having the same HUD normally seen in CBTC territory.

The MTA has been running the via 63 St, to Chambers St, and the on it's own at Queens Plaza for the past few Christmas weeks already. Is it going to suck? Yes, but it's still 100% better than the other proposal dragging the into this mess especially under your proposal having the run QBL Express.

From what I remember, people on this forum have mentioned it's not a good idea to extend the because it would piss off crews already on it and would rather not deal with that hence union being against because they represent the workforce. Is it true? I don't know, maybe I'm talking out of my ass, someone would probably know. I don't really care either way, we still don't have enough trains running around for the to be extended, not now nor for another couple of years at least.

I'm still surprised and kinda glad politicians are asking for something in return rather than screw everything during the process like they normally do. Am I opposed to the returning to Forest Hills? Not really, never really rode the outside of taking it as an alternative along the IND SBK/Culver. Unfortunately, politicians wouldn't be able to get what they ask for since there still wouldn't be nearly enough trains running around and the union would push against this anyway.

I have a few questions: Huh?! How does this solve anything? Why?! Running the with the is one thing, at least there's one less merge to deal with in this scenario. However, having the run express along QBL while the is running around too just creates the same exact problem where the would need to split and cut off the while merging with the along with the cutting off the in the process. QBL is somehow just as bad if not worse than the current setup, there's no extra service being provided in this scenario.

Wait, huh? I thought it was possible? I guess I don't really know how the track switches are designed through that area so maybe someone that knows how West 4 St switches work can chime in, but theoretically, it should be possible to have trains swap between 6 and 8 Av local entirely without either of them merging with each other. The only thing that would suck is the needing to deal with both the and .

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13088129/subway-surfers-sex-moving-7-train.html Don't think I need to go further into detail nor want to know what was said in the article, pretty sure everything here gives the gist of it.

Planned - Part Suspended No service between Coney Island and W 4 St-Wash Sq, and trains are rerouted in Midtown Manhattan Mar 1 - 4, Fri 11:30 PM to Mon 5:00 AM Downtown runs via the C after 59 St-Columbus Circle to W 4 St-Wash Sq and via the to 2 Av, the last stop. Uptown runs via the from 2 Av to 34 St-Herald Sq, and resumes regular service. Shuttle Bus Free shuttle buses make stops between W 4 St-Wash Sq and Grand St, stopping at Broadway-Lafayette St. replaces service in Brooklyn running between 96 St and Atlantic Av and then via the to/from Coney Island. (Note: shuttle also operates in Brooklyn between Coney Island-Stillwell Av and Prospect Park.) Planned - Part Suspended In Brooklyn, no between Atlantic Av and Prospect Park Service runs in two sections Mar 1 - 4, Fri 11:30 PM to Mon 5:00 AM runs in two sections (every 12 minutes days/evenings): 1. Between 96 St and Atlantic Av, then via the to/from Coney Island 2. Shuttle train between Prospect Park and Coney Island Northbound trains are also rerouted via the so going to be a very interesting weekend.

Anything can go on CBTC activated lines, it'll just be under CBTC bypass using the provided signals along the corridor.

Didn't it go out of service cause of door issues or was that another thing to pile on?