Daniel The Cool

1 hour ago, darkstar8983 said:

1. This year (and next year too), the GO could have ran from December 23rd 10PM to January 2nd 5:30AM, doubling the time that the work zone is available for workers to get more projects and upgrades completed.   

You do realize the reason why the G.O is ending at 5 AM on New Year Eve is due to the New Year's Eve Service Enhancements. They did the same thing back in 2017 and 2018.

5 hours ago, darkstar8983 said:

I think they did it last year. or maybe it was 2020. I think last year it wasn't done because of the omicron surge, and a lot of subway routes were already cut. and  

It was 2020 when they did it. Last year it wasn't done because of the shortage caused by omicron.

The  wasn't suspended during the omicron surge. It was only during that huge 2020 outbreak the line was suspended 

2 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

I swear they've been doing work in that dam tunnel on the same exact week for the past 5 years...

It wasn't done in 2019 nor last year.

4 hours ago, trainfan22 said:

Starting next weekend the TOMC will run express on the local track.

 

 

Always thought having these old cars making all those stops was an bad idea cause of increased chance of door problems. Will suck when the train catches up to a regular train and will have to crawl behind it, that is annoying as hell regardless of equipment.

The only local stops it will be stopping at is 125th Street (Uptown Trains) and 59th Street-Columbus Circle 

16 hours ago, N6 Limited said:

I think that was a Weekend G.O for the

That wasn't a G.O

1 hour ago, BM5 via Woodhaven said:

Trains Rerouted

Northbound via W 4 St-Wash Sq to 59 St-Columbus Circle.

trains running with extensive delays in both directions.

Emergency services are responding to someone who was struck by a train at 47-50 Sts-Rockefeller Ctr.

Northbound trains running with delays.

Expect delays in northbound service while they share the track with rerouted trains.

Posted: 10/31/2022 07:15AM

Funny thing is the Train from Brighton Beach was still suspended until after 7:30 or so.

The  Train G.O between 205th Street and 161st Street has been canceled this weekend due to the ALCS Series.

They're doing Fastrack on 6th Avenue for the last two weeks of this month and the first week of October. Interesting twist though is that the  will be running local on Broadway via Montague Tube instead of Broadway Express via Manhattan Bridge like they did in the past. 

32 minutes ago, R32 3838 said:

 

Probably either for a movie shoot, Brake testing or a protection train for the Museum train

Nope it's in service for some kind of run. 

1 hour ago, darkstar8983 said:

Wouldn’t it make sense for the  trains to skip 182-183 Sts, (the Kingsbridge Road trips), so that way, the  trains that terminate at Bedford Park Blvd can continue using the local track going around the terminating  trains. It’s a lot of trains going into the yard after the AM rush all at the same time. 20 TPH going uptown on the combined  and only 6 TPH of  trains going back downtown at that time, so the extra trains all dead-headed to Concourse Yard until the PM rush

Those Kingsbridge Trips has always skipped 182nd-183rd Street. They still do today.

R68 2632 has a diamond  bullet instead of the usual  bullet.

2 hours ago, Around the Horn said:

They're referring to the R142/As as "older cars" in that document.

Actually the R142/R142As were already planned on being CBTC Compatible for the Lexington Avenue CBTC when that project was announced a few years ago.

2 hours ago, subwaycommuter1983 said:

Check out this article:

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/transit/2022/07/21/mta-faces-decades-of-debt-as-ridership-remains-low?cid=share_clip

The MTA executives need to stop talking so much nonsense and take some basic Math and Financial Literacy.

There is no way that ridership is low when trains are packed during rush hours and they are packed on Saturdays. I ride the trains every day, so I'm not talking nonsense.

You do realize there's also the crew shortage that's affecting trips and crowd conditions in general. 

2 hours ago, darkstar8983 said:

The Coney Island layups were on the  and the concourse layups were on the

I'm well aware. They didn't run on the  during the 2020 Suspension. They did run on the  several times in 2020 but was way after the was restored.

4 hours ago, Calvin said:

The only time the  gives its R68/As out of Concourse lay-up to the was that suspension that happened around January and April-May 2020. It did take out the pressure of the 2500-2767 R68s that were used a lot, even though they are just for the Delta. 

It didn't happen during the 2020 suspension. Some of the  Train layups was mainly used on the Lines.

2 hours ago, darkstar8983 said:

They did this GO in winter 2004 the exact weekend all four tracks of the Manhattan Bridge subway lines were restored. I remember this GO exactly because it was the very first weekend the  was back in Astoria since having been cut back to a weekday-only route in Astoria (September 2002 to February 2004) since the  was the only Coney Island service and the North Side of the Manhattan Bridge was closed. The switch that connects the Flushing  line to the rest of the system was in need of replacement, so the pattern was:

 

 - Service only between Woodside-61 St and Flushing-Main St (or maybe it was 74 St-Broadway to Main St). I forget if the switch interlocking between 61 St and 69 St had already been removed.

 - Service ran in 2 sections:

1. Gravesend-86 St to Lexington Av-59 St, then via the  to/from 71 Av (via 4 Av Express / Manhattan Bridge / Broadway Local and Queens Blvd)

2. Shuttle between 39 Av and Astoria-Ditmars Blvd

 service was cut back from 71 Av to Court Sq to allow the  to run with the .

 

Lots of R68s made their debut on Queens Blvd that weekend, along with slant R40s, while separate R68s ran on the Astoria shuttle.

No it wasn't. It was done the weekend after the Manhattan Bridge Restoration. I remember the Manhattan Bride Restoration weekend because Most B Division G.Os for that weekend was a Saturday only G.O and I rode the  Trains the first day of the Manhattan Bridge Restoration.

Also the the switch interlocking between 61st Street and 69th Street was removed February of 2008.

On 4/15/2022 at 1:16 PM, LaGuardia Link N Tra said:

Right now the base order is 535 R-211 Cars. Minus the 75 that are for Staten Island, 460 Railcars (46 Trains) is enough to replace 207th/Pitkin's Fleet of R-46's
 

Actually you need over 500 R211s to replaced 207th/Pitkin's R46s.

16 hours ago, BM5 via Woodhaven said:

When the hell did they extend the night suspension between Queensboro Plaza & Hudson Yards? I was so glad because it initially was was slated to go on until next week (March 25th), but now they extended the damn thing almost an extra month, up til April 14th! The QBL sucks donkey balls at night, trains crrrrawlllll at night because of flagging or workers cleaning the tracks, it's insane. I always end up missing buses and having to walk from the subway station because of that nonsense. 

Last night for example, I unfortunately missed the Q32, so I went to the 5th Avenue - 53rd Street station to catch the train. The , , AND train arrivals weren't showing up towards Queens on the MTA website, so I went to the first. Well turns out the thing was a whopping 26 minutes away, so I risk it and hoof it to the . It came in like minutes after I arrived at the station, so I took that, to the (7), and got off at 74th Street and waited almost 20 minutes for the Q53, and caught the Q11 at Hoffman Drive. Had I waited for the instead, I would have likely missed the Q11, since it was due to arrive Roosevelt at 2:08 AM, and at that time of night, the Q11 departs Hoffman every hour at :15. 

They've been doing this also for at least one day out of many weeks before this prolonged outage started (on February 22nd), and they a similar month long outage back in October of last year. 

It was always supposed to end in April. I remember seeing the posters saying changes we're supposed to go through April. It was only the weekends shutdowns that is supposed to be for select weekends in March.

1 hour ago, BM5 via Woodhaven said:

All that being said though, I wouldn't necessarily be surprised though, if they just didn't want to replace the with anything, if it happens to be the case that there's nothing going on in that area. After all, having trains stop at 14th Street and 23rd Streets cost a lot of money, LOL. 

They're also doing work on the 6th Avenue Local Tracks southbound.

8 minutes ago, R10 2952 said:

I never understood the point of them running 4-car R143s on the weekend . 

OPTO

1 hour ago, darkstar8983 said:

The MTA should just print new schedules showing the true service frequencies. It’s frustrating that the published schedule is so different from what truly runs.

example:

the  now runs every 10 minutes all day, also does the . The  and  are now every 12 minutes all day. Trains are now super overcrowded not just because ridership is back to 50%+ of what it was in 2019, but because the trains only come half as often during rush hours.

 

 

You do realized those changes are not permanent and they're supplement schedules until further notice due to the crew shortage. 

 service is resuming tomorrow 

On 1/9/2022 at 9:41 AM, darkstar8983 said:

They've been doing a lot of "signal modernization" track closures between 59 St and Canal St, making the  run local in one direction and the express in the other.

Actually there hasn't been any 8th Avenue CBTC related work since November. They're supposed to resume 8th Avenue CBTC work soon.

11 hours ago, Around the Horn said:

This is the typical weeknight version of this G.O. Why it's Sunday into Monday this time IDK

EDIT: Just saw the Euclid Av part, that's actually something different. Usually the Manhattan and Queens half ends at Hoyt-Schermerhorn and use the middle track at Lafayette Avenue to turn.

Because the G.O is being done all day on Sunday. It's only when the G.O is done during overnights only that the  will end at Hoyt.

And the will be ending at World Trade Center that Sunday as well 

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