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Eric B

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  1. For this section, it wasn't just the IRT building it, but rather the Dual Contracts, which included the BMT, which also runs through this section, and has that opening visible to 7th Ave. station in this area (where it's level wit hte Brookly bound local track, and the express tracks have gone below). All six tracks were built together in a common structure, so you have to take into consideration that as well. I don't know if there were any provisions for more BMT tracks, but it is likely just extra space to support the rest of the infrastucture; or could even stem from a time when it wasn't decided which portions of the new construction the BMT would get and which the IRT would get (lke there had been talks of IRT getting 4th Ave.)
  2. R179s are starting to have the second tone added to the PA. I noticed this on one a couple days ago on the C, and then heard one on the A, and the conductor said that was the third one he had that dayd like that! The NTTs, as everyone would know, have the PA introduced by a single tone. This sounds a slightly different on the Bombardier cars than on the Kawasakis. The LIRR and MNR NTTs sound like the Bombardiers, but add a second higher tone, like a subway door tone, and actually sounding a bit more tuned to the R44-68 tone than the NTTs (which is a step or so lower; perhaps flattened?) So now they're adding them to the 179's.
  3. With all the building that was going on in Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay, has the weekend ridership been increasing? I remember the trains being packed (at least on Saturday) back when it was still the . But many of those riders were probably coming from the inner portion of the line (including the local stations), and weekend service would only be justified if there were a lot of riders getting on at those two stops, and perhaps Kings Hwy also.
  4. I hope someone doesn't go and make some dumb mistake. It's happened before! Like I think a handful of R32's were lost like that!
  5. I thought they were adding the track-trip system to SIR.
  6. Try this one now (don't know how long these things last):
  7. Don't know if this was mentioned anywhere, but I saw a couple of 9800's yesterday, and the from RGB sign was so bright! So now, they're able to get the intensity of bright monochrome LED's with RGB! (Now, if only they would start using the multicolor capacity for routes. I hope they're just waiting until almost all signs are RGB, rather than never planning to use them except for SBS).
  8. Here is an illustration of my suggestions I sent in:
  9. So, the can't use 145th (as it would usually do) because the is terminating at 161? (I never knew how that move was done, but from what I'm seeing on a track diagram, it would have to terminate on the northbound platform, and then go down the express (skipping 155th) and 145 middle.
  10. I think it's cool thes brought the brown back. It doesn't blur with the other colors to me at all; not even orange! (And what yellow is there?) And yes, I would make the suburban routes gray or black. (And I don't know why they went with a “BL” designation instead of sticking with “W”. It's supposed to be the initial of the borogh or county).
  11. They also ended up with s goin to Euclid or Lefferts!
  12. They have CBTC set up at that one station, isolated from the rest of the system (not installed between there and Kew yet)?
  13. They're labeling the shuttles to Astoria as
  14. And the crews would need to be CBTC qualified! I thought it was strange that they would move the to 71st instead of just keeping the .
  15. Here's how it is aligned now, and what woul have to be done to allow local access to 2nd av. Northbound is easy; it's southbound that would requiring removal of numerous columns and re-supporting the tunnel structure.
  16. I see them more likely sending 22's to and then sending the 160's to (whch will be sufficient for the CBTC), and the 68's then on (Unless they decide to give the something new in almost 40 years, and put some 211's there, and keep more 160's in Queens).
  17. Can't wait for the inside shot, to see what the final design of the connecting piece looks like!
  18. Wouldn't it be funny if it pressed them to bring the 32's and 42's out of retirement? Only, there aren't enough left to replace the 46's and 68's, but they could figure replacing as many as possible is better than doing nothing.
  19. The 98 should run across Eliot. Grand is winding, narrow and packed, and now they're going to have both 98 and 58, plus the 57/59. local, LTD or SBS, they will always be delayed and bunched, and provide no benefit. Eliot is a straight, fast capacity that should be used. Since they had planned, IIRC a QT6 or something like that, that was almost like an express, and tthen they could have it run nonstop (with the 14 providing the service). This would be for Ridgewood riders going to the malls, or Flushing (or anywhere else on that side of Queens), while the other services would be for Grand. Why force them along this slow busy stretch they are not going to?
  20. All cabs have the switch, and there's one on the outside of each door (but it's up. I heard they managed to wrestle one open from the inside, but then couldn't get the next one to open, but the switch was right up, to the left). I know I used to see a switch on the inside on the 44's that people used, but that looked like it was something that was supposed to have a screwed on metal plate over it, and it looks like they figured out they could remove it and access the switch.
  21. I would think if they had to go back that way (Court Sq., etc), they should start over there, and then go through QBP along the way. (Too much of a destination to completely avoid).
  22. That was the other thing I forgot. Both 39 and 67 go back the other way (to either Vernon or 21st), before starting to head east, and it feels like a long time, and you're still in LIC. I think the one that goes to Ridgewood should just go straight out on Queens Blvd to Van Dam, and let the other one (the shortened line) pick up all those out of the way corners).
  23. For the Cipher-zone (the invisible hole smack in the middle of the city), the best thing is the Q14 via Eliot, but it still only goes to Fresh Pond/Putnam, not Ridgewood terminal. Also, the 55 finally going all the way into Jamaica, and the 47 coming down to Metropolitan and Fresh Pond. Most everything else is still the same isolation (either by stopping short of connections, or just tortuously winding indirect routes). They swapped the 39 and 67 east of 48th, but still have the 39 taking the ridiculously long angled route through 100% industrial areas between 48th and Rust. It sould stay on Rust to 48th, and move the 67 to 55th Ave. and drop the under the BQE section. I see they also ditched the 59th/60th shortcut (some kinds at the last hearing were saying they couldn;t make the turns, but I think they should really consider doing something about that, and keep it off fresh Pond). If that weren't bad enough, when swinging over from Forest to Fresh Pond, it doesn;t even take the ovious direct path on Eliot, like the 39 does, but stays on Metropolitan to the hard left turn incredibly busy intersection with Fresh Pond. Are they kidding? They're making things worse! The 18 is straightened along 65th, but still doesn't come down past Grand. The 73 still ends on the 23 loop on Union Tpk, and doesn;t go the severl blocks to Myrtle! The 58 now takes Roosevelt instead of Horace Harding,which is slightly more direct, but turns off before reaching the intesection with Main, and ends up using the same loop several blocks away. They should have it turn from Roosevelt onto Main (which is no turns except buses), then end on the loop. I think the 98 at least (or something going across to Flushing) should use Eliot. Grand and Corona is just too long, winding, busy and narrow. The expresses are all unchanged, going 2 miles past Maspeth to Rego Park, to come all the way back to Fresh Pond. The exit in Maspeth is one mile from Fresh Pond @ Eliot, and this is stretched to four miles, half of which on the slow packed LIE! This to-scale map shows how utterly ridiculous it looks. Of the three expresses they have now, can't at least ONE of them go direct, using the Maurice Av. exit?
  24. looks nice. But people and things (perhaps deliberately some times) would be getting caught in the space between the train and the screen doors! As much as I think we need them; I don't see how it could ever work!
  25. Wow; so much time has passed! Doesn't seem like those rosters were that long ago!
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