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I got an email today to report to an assessment on 10/3 for a *provisional* TMA-T position in the Personnel Testing, Selection and Classification Unit.
I'm pretty darn sure I never applied to such a position on the MTA website. Perhaps they're already taking names from the exam...one of the specific duties listed was developing and/or proctoring the civil service exams...
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Train Operator
I think this person is asking what to look for in the MTA/BSC employment portal, and the answer to that question would be that it's highly unlikely for it to show up there, you'll have to wait for an exam.
Note - this is not true for all civil service positions, Transit is short on skilled trades (maintainers, car inspectors, etc) and has resorted to putting up job postings in the system for provisionals.
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So I got back from the Protest session. There were quite a few of us, at least 15 if I had to take an educated guess. If anyone else was there - I was wearing a yellow t-shirt with blue jeans sitting against the wall.
As the proctor said, normally for a protest they get a few people - 3 or 4 and that's it. Therefore, with the amount of people that were there today, something was "fishy" (if you get where I'm coming from).
Within the two hour time span that was permitted, I looked at most of the questions I got incorrect and realized some of the stupid mistakes I made. Oh well. I was able to submit protests for six of the questions, so we'll see what happens.
Good luck folks, and remember, patience!!!
I missed the "you must email" deadline for the protest session by 2 hours...
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The Glen Cove Ferry bus never made it into the GTFS feed, so any app that has it is doing it manually.
The fall GTFS has some oddities in the Saturday schedule...there's a bunch of trips that shouldn't be there. Includes 7 n6X trips, 4 n6 trips, 4 early AM n4 trips, 3 Mineola-Roslyn n23 short turns, and an 8:55am n22 out of Jamaica.
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3 wrong, or 96.25%.
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It seems like more runs to Hewlett is being cut on the n1. I wouldn't be surprised if the route gets truncated fully to Green Acres at this point.
Where do you see this? The September schedules are posted here, but I don't see any major n1 changes.
http://www.nicebus.com/Passenger-Information/Customer-Advisory-Committee.aspx
The HTC-Hofstra-NCC shuttle is now the n16X.
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So I just Try the Glen Cove Ferry, the ferry was full (4:30P Wall St) and ticket never collected (assuming it's free). However when I got there there was not a single sign saying that NICE Bus stops there, kinda have to save the bus down when I see it, as far as I know NOBODY took it there
Ferry was full? When I rode it there were only 30-ish passengers. There's no ticket collection, all they want to do is see that you posses an LIRR ticket of some type.
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Posting is up again:
Note - unlike LIRR, external applicants must either be engineers from another railroad OR have 3 years of experience as a truck driver, pilot, B/O or T/O.
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I was in room 205.
I overheard someone ask the proctor how many people were taking the exam, and she said 980, but wasn't too sure about it.
Having no other exams to compare this with, this exam was not exactly what I expected, but not too far off either. I hated those "supervisor interaction" questions...the rest was pretty easy with a couple individual exceptions.
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Some n27 runs will be extended to the Glen Cove Ferry starting June 10 to get riders to the ferry to Manhattan during Amtrak construction. Look at NICE doing something right for a change!
Except that the site got the PM ferry times completely wrong. There's only two trips, arriving at 5:50pm and 7:30pm.
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Have they said if Long Island Rail Road was cross honoring?
Not on the GO, but it's here: http://web.mta.info/nyct/service/planned_servChanges_EF_weekend.htm
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Just got a text and email reminder...at an email address that I didn't list on the application form. They must've dug up my record at the BSC and emailed everything on file.
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As far as the "no cell phones allowed at all" policy, right before I walk into the building, I turn my phone off and place it in my pants pocket. Once the examination is over and you are out of the building, then I turn it back on. I highly doubt they are going to have metal detectors there. Again, we are going to a college and NOT a high school, correct?
Has that always worked for you? I'm inclined to play it safe and not bring my phone, just a couple quarters for a pay phone...
How long is the exam normally? All it says is 10:30 start, get there an hour early.
As far as how many people are taking the exam: With a start time of 10:30 AM, there is probably going to be one [1] session, therefore does anybody else have an educated guess before I reveal my educated guess? This should be a little interesting....
Probably no more than a few hundred.
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Hopefully that 75 Av bypass doesn't come with an associated slow order...7/10 is the same date that the LIRR work begins.
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I just received my admission notice for this exam, Saturday, 7/15/2017 @ 10:30 AM at Hunter College - the West Building.
Anyone else receive their admission notice?
Just got mine, same time and location.
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Does anyone have the current articulated schedule?
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How do people read the interlining chart? What is a block? Does a driver work a single block or multiple blocks?
Each block represents a set of trips that turn for each other. Because some of these are way more than a 12 hour day, I'm assuming that these represent vehicle cycles, not driver cycles. One vehicle or driver can work multiple blocks over the course of a day (as evidenced by the one-run pieces near the bottom of the list).
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Summer 2017 interlining grid:
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Blue = ARBOC, yellow = articulated.
Looks like the articulated runs will be running later on Saturdays
On weekdays, they have four artics out at a given time under the new schedule, and they're only operating rush hour express service. No weekday midday or evening artic operations.
On Saturdays there are two out all day. Presumably the others will work the n88 as needed.
The n19, n78/n79, and n80 remain their own blocks, not interlined with anything else.Route by route, from looking at the timetables (all are weekday, no weekend changes on these routes):
- n22: No changes, timetable removes all mention of the n22A.
- n24: 5:47p from Hicksville eliminated, 10:15p from Jamaica will terminate at RFM. Minor time changes.
- n19: 2min added to AM running time and 2min removed from PM running time. Turn changes.
- n23: 10:30a trip from Mineola eliminated.
- n27: Added 7:36a trip from Hempstead, 10:45p trip from Hempstead eliminated (9:45p trip will run Willis Ave)
- n33: 3min added running time eastbound.
- n40/41: No changes.
- n48/49: Added 7:10a n49 trip from Hempstead; PM eastbound minor time changes.
- n54/55: Time changes all day. The westbound schedule contains typos in the PM (route numbers), early AM westbound short turns extended to originate from Unqua Rd and Sunrise Mall respectively
- n58: Added 9:25p southbound trip from USMMA.
- n72: 6:15a from Hempstead and 1:02p from Rt 110 eliminated. Time changes.
- n70: 4:24p and 6:15p from SUNY Farmingdale converted to n72 trips. Time changes.
- n80: Minor time changes.
The trip removals from the n24, n23, and n27 timetables don't appear to be new service cuts, rather, they look like trips that never run under the April schedule but were included by accident. They were not in the April not in the GTFS.
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Rode 1967 on Friday. The bus ran fine, but it was really dirty on the inside, and the seats are really uncomfortable compared to the 40 ft buses or NYCT artics.
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I had actually been put in contact with someone from HR to explore opportunities out of university, and I was directed to this exam. Also, they had modified the original instructions to allow for those who will have their degrees not just by the February registration date but by the July exam date to take the exam. Which to me seemed to indicate they might be interested in seeing how new grads do, but who knows.
So I'm at least a bit hopeful, as long as scoring and calling from the list doesn't take too long after the exam!
Operationally it's like any other civil service exam, so decisions are based solely on score and not whether or not you're a new grad.
I'm a new grad too and also signed up to take the exam, but it's in the back of my mind. Applying through the main interface is the primary route I'm taking.
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If you really want such positions, I cannot overstate the importance of applying on the main site here: https://www.mymta.info/careers/index.html
I have a feeling that this exam is primarily going to be to replace provisionals and/or provide permanent status to current employees, and not to fill new openings. That said, I may be wrong.
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http://www.auctionsinternational.com/auction/nassau-mta-10640-10640
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1695According to the CPTDB wiki there are 6 remaining ex-Foothill buses and 33 remaining ex-MTA Orion V's. I would assume most of these are not seeing daily service?
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