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As for the FASTRACK, hope the new ones work well, and they send out some Artics for the Queens Blvd. and Lex Ave. closures... It's rather a photo of a page of the document by Greg Mocker of Pix11 News via my post, call me KS, lol!

- Definitely agreed. (A)/[D] - Pretty much will happen like that or the [D] Line ends at 161st for the sake of riders and cutting shuttle bus distance. [F] [M] - Complete sectional shut down, don't think running another service on the line would suggest it is really FASTRACK, since it already happens on some weekends. What I think will happen is there will be a Express Shuttle Bus and a Local Shuttle Bus overnight, and the line will completely shut down, with [F] Line Service ending at 21st St. - Queensbridge, Service ending at 57th St. - 7th Ave. until it does the 4th Ave. Shuttle, [M] Line Service will end early, Service will stop at Queens Plaza. - Definitely agreed. Well, perhaps painting the station and doing complete washing and work that might be hazardous to passenger's health, from the looks of photos from Flickr some work require complete station and line closures.

There will be full shuttle bussing for FASTRACK on the QBL, it's pretty much certain, 100%. Nightmare indeed, but what can you do, ya know... Not funny at all, it's all based on logic.

LOL, just random thoughting, not serious, ;-]!

For the , the Bx1 and Bx2 bus doesn't run overnight (from 1-4AM), so Shuttle Busses would be in place during FASTRACK. For the , the M4, Bx7 and M100 doesn't run overnight (from 1-4AM), so Shuttle Busses would be in place during FASTRACK. And QBL would be a nightmare, but I guess busses would be out in full effect.

Williamsbridge and East New York Stations should close and be turned into layup tracks.

NY1 has a watered-down approach and less technical: "The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says shutting lines down overnight for track work has proven to be safer and more efficient, and it is moving the Fastrack repairs program uptown and outside of Manhattan in 2013. Planned work includes repairs to the A line in Washington Heights and the D line along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. There are also plans for work on E, F, M, R, Q and N lines in various parts of Queens and Brooklyn." Source Link: http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/top_stories/161655/mta-to-expand-fastrack-program-to-four-boroughs-in-2013 Additional Links: http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2012/may/14/mta-fastrack-expand-outer-boroughs/ http://transportationnation.org/2012/05/14/mta-fastrack-to-expand-to-beyond-manhattan/ http://www.metro.us/newyork/local/article/1142945--overnight-shutdowns-coming-this-week-to-b-d-f-and-m I am pretty sure your eye's thirst for more information would be quenched! Enjoy reading!

If you don't believe it, expect it on the news in the next few hours or days depending, this photo is from the tweeter whom is a reliable news source.

More Details on the Planned Closures for 2013: - [broadway BMT] From LIC to Downtown Brooklyn. No Bus Replacement Needed. - [Washington Heights IND] from 168th to 207th Sts. Minimal Bus Coverage Required. - [Grand Concource IND] from 161st to 205th Sts. Minimal Bus Coverage Required. - [inner Queens IND] from Roosevelt Ave. to Court Square. Bus Coverage Required. - [Lexington Ave. IRT] from 45th to 100th Sts. Bus Coverage Required [Local ONLY], Source: Greg Mocker /// Twitter. https://twitter.com/...5/photo/1/large

Engadget via FierceWireless - "Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo shattered many a hopes and dreams today speaking at the J.P. Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom conference. During his address, Shammo indicated that customers who have been grandfathered in to the unlimited data plan may soon find themselves pushed into tiered territory, with the debut of the carrier's shared data plans. "Everyone will be on data share," Shammo said, clarifying that, "a lot of our 3G base is on unlimited... [and] when they migrate off 3G they will have to go to data share." Obviously, with many customers clinging desperately to their truly unlimited usage in the shift to LTE, such a move would ruffle more than a few feathers. It's not clear if this will affect customers who have already made the leap to LTE devices or if it will be limited to customers migrating from 3G phones after a particular cut off date. We've reached out to Verizon for comment, but so far Big Red is keeping mum. We'll just have to take Shammo at his word for now. We hope you like data caps. To hear the comments in full hit up the source link. Update: We just finished listening through the entire webcast (we're still waiting for the transcript) and found the quote that is going to make most customers shake their fists in anger: "LTE is our anchor point for data share. So, as you come through an upgrade cycle and you upgrade in the future, you will have to go on to the data share plan. And moving away from, if you will, the unlimited world and moving everyone into a tiered structure data share plan." Doesn't get much clearer than that, but we're still hoping Verizon will come back and say Shammo was speaking out of turn... fingers crossed." Source Link: http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/16/verizon-cfo-says-grandfathered-unlimited-plans-on-the-way-out/

Perhaps, but it wouldn't be cost efficient, and basically it's like saying that EMU is locked to that line. I think the Blue is good enough and cost efficient. Perhaps, FRA rules might also come in but I am not 100% sure about that... Anyways, I think we should go back to discussing the M8's and the Connecticut Lines.

Colors: Blue - East of Hudson (Hudson/Harlem Line(s)). Red - Connecticut (New Haven/New Canaan Line(s)) *Diesel Service North of Croton-Harmon on Hudson, SouthEast on Harlem, Danbury Branch and Waterbury Branch in Connecticut (M# series cannot go on those lines...

Something useful if it still isn't posted: http://mta.info/mnr/html/newM8.html

Well, Hempstead Transit Center in general is owned by the except the streets out of the gates. Mitchel Field Bus Depot and the half of the Orion VII's, as well as the miscellany equipment that makes MetroCard usage possible. So the Rules apply to all the facilities mentioned as well as LIRR Stations and 165th St. Bus Term.

Well, the owns HTC so carry your NYCT Rules with you, and state to them that the allows you to take photos of their property as long as you're on a public area.

Yep, novaLFSA #5680 is in Flushing yesterday, I have few photos I got, it's going to be uploaded in a bit.

Run directly to Elmont after Jamaica-179th St., then serve all the major stops and transfer points.

They never enhanced the n6L, the n6L basically operated like a Local in some senses, I think the n6L should be running more like in a desirable medium between the n6L and n6X, the n6X is too stripped down, the n6L is too much, they need to balance out.

And look, there is a Cabbie on the board, so at the end Mangano is trying to get people away from the bus and into the cab, purely ridiculous and cabs and cars are so not a Green form of transportation. It is going to look worse than the cuts at the end, as much as I hate saying it, from the looks of the April-08th moves, it's gonna be and bound to be worse. Let's just hope June's service arrangements bring some positiveness but I don't see it... It's not good down there, I really think Veolia didn't think about the n6's service, and honestly I don't think Veolia's employees ever went on the bus before the service changes, the n6L could've been enhanced to serve major stops and transfer points rather than the n6X come in and replace it.

Well, by White you mean not wrapped but striped with no ads? How people blame the bus driver all the time, no the bus driver is the professional one, the regular car drivers don't know sh!t!!

What they are doing is minding ridership later, cuts first, for profit or not. Veolia is basically doing stuff worse than the , just cut the routes that see low ridership, Veolia is trying to get ridership down across the County and what I am seeing is only the n4, n6, n20, n22, n24, n31 merged with n32 and n33 routes left after all settle if Veolia stays and Mangano stays. Basically as we know it and said it, only the routes with decent amounts of ridership connecting to the NYC Subway are here to stay. Perhaps NICE won't even need a new order of busses after the 1500's/1600's are gone.

Tuning into Great Country 93.7, my favorite station!