Eric B

Yeah; just looking at the map, the Q60 past Archer only duplicates the 6 and the 40, with the 108-157-109 loop being the only difference. Are there that many people down there who want the direct Queens Blvd Service? Otherwise, could one of the other routes pick up that loop?

That's basically the way the R110A sign was (Which is what got me so into LED technology int he first place. Like MHV said, RGB's didn't exist at the time, which is why the 110B stuck with a rollsign)> I think having the letter in white will make it stand out at a distance, so it won't be a blur of a single color. If anything, they should eventually retrofit all the older NTT's with the new signs. Their main benefit wouldn't be as much useful if they ended up on one or two lines, since that is all the 211's will likely fill out since they are replacing the 46's.

Similar to PATH, except the background is colored too. Should put to rest the excuse that only red is visible for end signs. They have whole text embedded in a lit background (which I could see having glare problems), and what I've been saying we should do is keep the background black, make the letter white, and the circle outline color changing. If these other signs pass, just think how much visible this idea would be.

No; a master tower is one that controls a whole section of a line, incorporating the areas of several towers. Church Av. is just an old tower that controls that area. The master tower will be the one that replaces everything from there to Jay St.

Like I had mentioned, there are rough provisions for the second track (to the west of the current one). However, Park Pl. access would have to be reconfigured, and the bridges for it over Atlantic and other streets would have to be constructed. Again, that's something that would only be done in a serious condition, like DeKalb totally out for years, or something.

All they wanted to do was shut it down completely, so when they went along with rebuilding it, they figured two cars was better than the nothing at all it really should have been.

Platforms are 170ft. The southbound side has the space to extend the platform (to 300 or back to 480, not sure about 600, as there are overpass supports past 480, so if they went past there, it would be very narrow). On the northbound side, they built a concrete room on the south end, blocking any extension. That would have to be moved. What could be done for a long term shutdown is to extend the southbound platform, cross the service to that side and then back, and then run the two car shuttle from there to Franklin. People coming from the south would have to cross up and over to get to the IRT, and you wouldn't have the direct access to the new IND transfer. (And the IND is what you want to use, since it has the capacity, rather than dumping more people on the already over capacity IRT. So they would probably never bother with any of this. This seems to be why crude provisions were left in the rest of the line for double tracking and platform lengthening, but some modification work would need to be done, so this is probably for a really long term emergency.

They've done this before.

I think on the mezzanine at Continental.

The CBTC might be apart of it, but they're going to replace the towers with a master tower, for one thing.

Wonder why they didn't coordinate this work to be during the Fastracks they have up there. Makes hardly any sense to run service like that.

I wonder why they won't ever do Roosevelt-Continental. That's when they should do this work they're doing this weekend with one express track out, three services on the local, with flagging on the adjacent tracks. (now increased to the span of two stations), plus all the other little work they're doing here and there, plus a major signal project coming up. It would be easier to replace that section with the buses (just straight down Broadway and Queens Blvd).

When TTMG finally came back on, 7-24, that was when a few 5000's were in one of the MTAB depots. But then they were gone, but the date is still 7-24. So I take it the roster is still being updated, without the "effective" date being changed?

Just saw that one yesterday, on the bridge.

I always wanted to know what specifically those other four keys are as well. I know they are extra IRT keys (B Div. never got them), and from years ago, as by the time I got to the IRT (6 years ago), they were no longer giving them out. I heard not just redbirs, but also even some R62/62A as well. Different barns apparently had different keys. One was called the "Pelham Key" I heard. So if anyone knows which each one was, I would like to know as well.

Hope so, instead of squeezing all the work they're doing up there under traffic.

I don't really know enough about the 61 to say, but the reasoning they gave sounded like it made sense. If downtown was a choke point, then right there, it probably made sense. But I myself did not ride it enough to know.

Yes, that was what I meant (but the 62 wouldn't go to Red Hook; it would just end downtown where it always did).

They were testing out some sort of super express years ago, but it probably didn't work. The express track is in two sections, (requiring two merges back into the local), so probably wouldn't save any time.

Maybe I'm remembering something wrong; but when both the 61 and 62 ram; I remember the 61 being the one closest to the river (similar to today's 32), while 62 was more inland. They they cut the 62, and only the 61 remained. Then finally, they cut the route in half, with the 61 as the southern half, and the 62 as the new northern half, not too long ago. So what I was saying, if that last step and the current change had been done at the same time, it would have simply been moving the 61 a few blocks over in Williamsburgh, and then through the Navy Yard, while the 62 picked up the old route.

While we're at it, if they had thought of this earlier, it could have just been a reroute of the B61, since that's what the extended 67 parallels. (i.e. cutting the 61 back like they dd, but then extending it along the new route, or the portion of the old 61 that became the 62 remain the 61, and the new route be the 62).

Wonder why they didn't just send the new B32 through the yard, instead of extending an existing line.

You got that because it collapsed my two posts into one. (It originally showed it as skipping 9999 and making it 10000).

I was watching it coming. OOhh, post #9999 and 10000!

Just thought to post these two pictures, from the Chanel display in Macy's 34th (on the south side of the ground floor, right near where an old shuttered exit is going to be reopened). These are are about 1mm RGB's, so I wonder if a FIND could be made with them. They certainly should be good enough for an endsign; perhaps even a full bullet like a rollsign.