Wallyhorse

I suspect a lot of this is not having enough workers for such. Many people retired during the pandemic and will continue to take some time for all those positions to be filled again.

Which would be covered in an split to and "Orange " by having (once necessary CBTC work is done) having half of the trains operate to 71-Continental to during the week and at all times nights and weekends. This gives with the "Orange " 2nd Avenue riders a one-seat option on 6th Avenue while having half each of the current and trains cover QBL local with the .

A while back, I had proposed this myself by splitting the into and "Orange ." with the trains operating as they do now and the "Orange " trains operating to 96th Street-2nd Avenue. What likely would need to be done there would be if split the into and as I would do it, probably have every other train run to 71st-Continental to fill in the void of the being split (or course, CBTC work between Court Square and Queens Plaza on the would have to be completed before this could be accomplished). In this, the "Orange " would run at all times to 96th/2nd and eliminate the night and weekend shuttles. And the is utilized and why if they can do the necessary CBTC work between Court Square and Queens Plaza on the , I would return half of the service to QBL to compensate for the loss of the and in this case go back to having the operate entirely to 71-Continental when the is not running on QBL (with the late nights returning to be an express).

Going to address these: 1 and 4: If such connections can be done via a new underground passageway, then certainly. 2. Not sure how that would work. 3. That is definitely, especially if at some point the Rockaway Beach Branch is re-activated as subway. 5. Blatantly obvious. 6. You would need a long passageway on both 3rd and on Lexington Avenues for this to work. 7. This would help, especially once the SAS station also opens (here it would be possible since such a transfer would be through the Lexi/53rd station on the ). 8. Not sure this is feasible given the Broadway line station runs from 55th-57th and the station I believe is from 59th-61st. To me, it would be better if possible to extend the 63rd Street connector to the 8th Avenue Line if possible, allowing for an 8th Avenue service to access 63rd. 9. This is another no-brainer. You could do it from the north end of the side platforms at Prince on the ( late nights) to the stations around Houston).

Yep, though it seemed during the winter the was back to 11 cars on weekends, or at least for Jets games (I remember going out to see the only post-merger playoff game ever for the Jets at Shea when they lost to the Bills in the AFC Wild Card playoff). I also remember the would have one "game train" that was a full train on weekends after Mets games though most trains after Mets games were still six cars. The was replaced during rush hours by the back then.

Yep! That is EXACTLY how it was. The often was six cars on weekends as I remember going to Shea for Mets games then. Also, the was six cars during rush hours.

I actually rode a few trains that were shortened, especially doing messenger work in 1980-'81 when I believe they were really short on trains due to many of them being unavailable for service. Most of those trains were five cars. This was before and after the infamous day in January 1981 when one-third of the entire fleet was unavailable due to cars having issues.

I remember back in 1980 or so the used to be a half-length train (five cars) middays. The old would often be four cars then for example.

What is weirder is the old teal logo is there.

Originally posted this in Random thoughts but I realized it also belongs in this thread:

SEPTA in Philly is installing new turnstiles in the 69th Street station on the Market-Frankford Line in Upper Darby (just outside the city limits): SEPTA needs to make these gates taller and lower so people can't jump or crawl underneath. Otherwise, these are the kind of turnstiles the needs to be installing at subway stations to cut down on fare beating.

Didn't realize CPW was also tied up. The main purpose of the to 145 would have been to allow for an split between Astoria and 96/2 to allow for closer-to-normal service.

Why not then do the to 145 and have the and half of the both to 96th/2nd (trains not going to Astorita)? That would solve both issues,

Long overdue. They need to put in the kind of fare gates used by the PATCO system in Philly/South Jersey with the doors tall enough to avoid jumping and low enough to avoid crawling (also having them ADA compliant).

Maybe the Auto Show promoters paid the to have the shuttle in place?