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    BUS - Random Thoughts Thread

    in New York City Bus

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    May be due to the terrain. IIRC, the Bx5 does not operate through much terrain that is hilly. Additionally, there might not be enough 40 footers, for all of the lines. There are also some artics on the Bx15 right now.

    There's always artics on the Bx15. 

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    Bronx Division Bus Proposals/Ideas

    in New York City Bus

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    The mentality of your average suburbanite is why our transit network, especially when it comes to buses, is severely poorly interconnected (i.e, shit... Lol).... The urbanite's reponse is, and has always been 100% reactionary.... Hate to preach, but it's the quintessential example of two wrongs not making a right.... While I don't agree with how VG8 feels about it all, I do understand it..... Personally, I'd rather promote (or at least try to) suburban - urban travel (outside of high speed rail, that is), than to be on the other side of the coin of "f*** you, pay me", basically.....

     

    - Urbanites are rather open about suburbanites being on buses & subways (the ones that do use them after coming off the LIRR/MNRR/NJT RR anyway)....

    - Suburbanites OTOH not only stigmatize urbanites (even the ones living better off than most other urbanites), but stigmatize lower class suburbanites as well....

     

    The have's have a tendency to look down on the have not's... What I find funny is you have the have not's that are better off in some cases than the have's (esp. in terms of character, but be there as it may...)...

     

    Suburbia is an urban getaway.... Public transportation is supposed to be beneficial for all parties, but suburbanites use public transit to get to metropolis', where a large amount of them work (and "play", if you catch my drift)... Compare that to us urbanites' use of public transit; we don't just use it to get to/from work....

     

    This is why I absolutely adore all these suburbanites that are running away from suburbia here in the 21st century.... Sucks when you don't have the almighty personal vehicle at your arsenal... I mean, how many people do you see taking to RR to go food shopping? There would be a silent lambasting (or amongst each other, if amongst a group) from just about anyone else in that particular RR car kzkxWdx.gif

     

    Although I haven't given Jubai's particular idea any thought as of yet, in regards to what you're saying here, I'd go about matters on a case by case basis as to [whether some route should be extended across county lines], or [the creation of a new route that would transport folks across county lines]...

     

    In other words, I'm not for extending routes over county lines willy-nilly just to support the cause (an eastward extension of the Q4 to..... wherever the hell some ppl. justify sending it in Nassau county, I categorize as such)....

     

    To your other point, of course the n20 (regardless of now that it's been split) serves more NYC patrons than Nassau patrons... The folks that live in the part of Nassau county that the n20 serves, is car country USA...... The route that gets the most patronization in northern Nassau county is the n27 and... it's... not... even... close... But yeah, the splitting up of the n20 made the fact you're pointing out all the more conspicuous..... It's a reason why I was never fond of extending the Q12 to LIRR Great Neck....

    B35, I'm gonna reply to your post more and elaborate on that sentiment a bit more when I arrive in the city. It's a pain trying to reply to posts on this app.

     

     

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    New Jersey Transit - Random Thoughts Thread

    in New Jersey Transit

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    Ohhhh right lol.

     

    I've always said they should look to using Artics on that line. It seems that line is horrifically packed all hours of the day

    Agreed, there's only one problem though. NJT doesn't have enough artics to send to Greenville. Hopefully when the time comes to order the Neoplan replacements, NJT opts to order some more to augment the fleet. 

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    Subway - What If?

    in New York City Subway

    Posted · Edited by DaTransitMan4608

    A ConEd worker messes up while performing maintenance on a feeder cable for the Lex. This results in a loss of power from 125th to Wall Street. (4)(5)(6) services are affected.

     

    A short time later, some vandals (The Conquestors made a comeback) who were playing around with the crossover South of 96th on 7th Ave place a rock in between the switch, jamming it. This causes the low speed derailment of a Flatbush bound (2).

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    New Jersey Transit - Random Thoughts Thread

    in New Jersey Transit

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    So I'm planning a trip to Philly in the near future, and frankly I'm not interested in riding in anything other than a Multi-Level. (Maybe a Comet V if I have no other option)

    Is there a way to figure out what train you'll get for a certain departure?

     

    Or if any of you what train 3917 (9:01 to Trenton) and train 3870 (6:28 to New York) consist of, please tell.

    IIRC, one or both of those trains use them. When I commuted via train into NYC last semester, I remember 3917 always having a ML set. The NEC line is primarily Multilevels and Arrow IIIs with a few Comet sets here and there so you have a good shot at getting one. If you're not pressed for time, 3831 (9:37 NYP departure) uses them.
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