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I have been adapting to the GO's on queens blvd for over 20 plus years. I get that the CBTC has it's own issues but the majority of the time (on weekends) when the is delayed, It's mainly because of the GO in Brooklyn. During the week It's not as bad because the is running with the . As long as those extra trains turn around in Manhattan, it shouldn't be bad. They barely had enough room before the was sent via 63rd. Having the and in one tunnel would cause problems. The uses a lot of trains hence why they are reducing the slightly and this would allow them to run more trains.

Waiting 30 plus mins for an train wouldn't help either. Every time the screws up, I have to wait more than 12 mins. Adding extra service isn't going to help because the line is pure trash. The only way to somewhat make things a bit easier is turning the extra trains at canal st, if they don't do that than it's pointless. They could have extended the to at least keep weekday service every 5-6 mins at local stations and used whatever the isn't using since that's like half of the line fleet that isn't going to be needed. Most people get off at Roosevelt to transfer anyway. The would have been 8 cars instead of 5. I get work needs to get done but they need to stop with the shit alternatives. Bad enough I have to wait for longer periods of times for the train on weekends when the road goes to shit in Brooklyn The service from what i read will be slightly reduced since the will also be running on 53rd st.

They ran on the shuttle before as full length trains last summer. This is i think the first time they are running as 5 car units on the shuttle.

These were from your co-workers who are on facebook and 2 i know personally. That's why i said rumor in my original post about it.

I never said they can't work here, Let the train run over debris in a river tube with no clearance and see what happens. had years of planning for this and they didn't do it. I'm not against the cars at all but the way has its rules, They should have known this was going to be an issue. So don't come at me like I'm against the cars when I'm just relating the news from people who actually work in NYCT. This is why they are test units. Once they figure out the issues and concerns, Then they'll figure out if they want to order more or not.

punishes the crew if they don't investigate enough (if they don't check in between cars) So the Union is in the right here while NYCT is the ones who makes the rules. So The full blame should be directed at . TFL probably doesn't do that hence why it works for them. It uses more than 2 10 car sets, More like 4-5 sets since it goes to rockaway blvd.

Also The R211T's (are rumored) to be only on the Rockaway park Shuttle due to the union not wanting them on the road due to the lack of of going in between cars to investigate a BIE (if it goes into a no clearance area when the Train goes BIE, The T/O can't go in between cars to investigate)

Wrong, The line started with 1651 to 1800 in 1985. The R62A's didn't hit the until 1986. Then when the got it's sets it currently has now, the earlier models went to the

Having the go to queens plaza and relay would cause even more delays to the or if it runs via 53rd and top it off with the CBTC restrictions it makes things worse. The only differnce with the night GO is that they only switch to the express tracks and deadhead to lay up the trains.

That is not the reason why they refuse to get qualified on the R211's. It's mainly because of the cameras in the cabs. A good chunk of NYCT workers do not like the old equipment.

Corona is the best barn in the whole entire system. They will turn a turd into something great. Before retirement, their R33/36WF fleet had the best MDBF in the entire system. The CBTC issues and everything aside. They always make sure their equipment is in good running shape.

No one want's to burn up in that plastic death trap so i'm glad delayed it.

This is exactly going to happen. As someone who rode these routes for 28 and a half straight years, Everyone is going to crowd the Q4 within that area and that portion of the route gets a decent chunk of ridership.

That's probably going to happen, Concourse would probably get 2-3 more R68s back to make their spare factor normal again (pre 2017) while CI would increase it's spare factor with more R46s.

I rode the R211 from 207th to far rock today (the 1st set) and it's starting to buck already (not surprising) It's not a bad train but the R179s are way way way better in terms of ride quality and smoothness. I wish they made more of them in 10 car sets because they are nice on the . I might have bashed them in the past but after riding one on the on the way back up. I prefer the R179 over the R211. I just hope that rumor isn't true of them leaving the line because they are the best cars for the . I'm not saying the r211s are a bad train but they are alright. The r179s are even smoother than the R142s.

Nope, Any car that needs lights replacement are going to get LEDs moving forward as it's much cheaper vs the florescent lights. I wish they just did the whole set instead of being cheap. It looks tacky as hell.

I hope they can fix the R211S route display to instead of it just saying SI, It's not that hard to do since these are leds. The font might be narrower but at least it'll display I know it's a nitpick

These retards really don't have logic at all. People really don't want these cars at Jamaica but i still think they have a 98% chance of ending up there due to the fact that these cars are built for lines like the and . These fans want them on the / so damn bad but yet they don't think with logic.

They'll never understand until it happens to them. A lot of people in this community are so quick to say we need opto or automated trains with no crew but don't understand that a 2 person crew is always needed and if an emergency they are right there to help.

This might not be the case, The R179s might go else where. This is rumored by NYCT employees which i hope isn't true because the R179s do fine on the Also with how ENY keeps improving it's spare factor, The could go 100% 8 car R179s if they get all of the 8 car R179s cbtc equipped since the can use all of the available R160s 8377-8652,9943-9974 now at ENY. That's if they decide to keep it 8 car R179s just to get rid of the R46s off of 8th ave in time for CBTC. This would also allow the to use the R179s if they get CBTC kits installed. Then when Option I cars start coming in then they can transition the to being 10 cars Having 8 and 10 car R179s running on the at the same time would cause confusion, This is why they don't use the 10 car units on the and only the R46s.

probably paying out of pocket instead of using federal funds since you can't use federal funds if the companies don't have a plant in America due to the Buy America law.

did you not read that it was a put in? Its's a train that starts at Euclid and ends at far Rockaway to start the day. It just happened to be signed up as Jesus Christ, Are you okay or something?

It's safe to say that all R160s 8377 and up is CBTC compatible (non carnarsie) now. The has been using R160's 8613-8652 and 9943-74 besides the 2 4 car units 9950-54 and another 9900 4 car unit) for over a month now, I rode on 9960 earlier. This is probably the reason why it was easy to send more R179s back to the . Before the was only using 8377-8612. This in turns reduces to spare factor since now the can use the whole ENY R160 fleet besides the ones from the .

I got it mixed up with when they put them in service. It's 2 sets per month for when they go into passenger service but deliveries they'll probably be at least 3+ whole trains per month

I think its about 2 sets per month but i would expect them to deliver more than 2 sets since a good chunk of cars are already completely built. They are going to make up for lost time.