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But if NICE is forced to alter the detours because of congestion or organizer greed, it might not be able to serve the stop leaving passengers stranded. I freakin hate these street closures for non-construction reasons!

I would NOT want to work that run if I had a choice! Is the shuttle a rookie line, or do some people prefer it for some reason?

For a Queens Blvd East shutdown, I would do this. ends early turn at Roosevelt: run the every 20min from 10pm onwards and the local if Roosevelt can't turn them both. shuttle train Sutphin to 179th. Local bus: Roosevelt , all stops to Union Tpk. Express bus: Roosevelt , Woodhaven, Forest Hills, Union Tpk, Briarwood-Van Wyck, Sutphin , Sutphin , Jamaica Center Extra Q44 service until midnight

Maybe not full trunks, but 24/7 shutdowns are the most efficient way to do work, whether it be out of face on 2/3 track lines or closing a couple tracks on 4 track lines with barricades to avoid flagging. Case in point: Chicago's Red Line South project, which started in May and is expected to reopen in two weeks. The Queens Blvd FASTRACK is posted. Full closure, not just local/express.

APC isn't that smart, it only records OTP and ons/offs and not origin-destination/transfer pairs.

For some reason, ever since I came here (Pittsburgh), Newsday has never asked me for a login. I don't know if it's because I'm out of their coverage area, or because I'm on university wi-fi.

http://web.mta.info/nyct/service/building7update.htm Start with 5 weekends.

Why is the South Ferry shuttle bus necessary? Take the to Fulton and transfer to the for Wall St or Bowling Green.

The one planned in December is a plain Rutgers shutdown, W4 to Jay. The 2012 6 Av outage is W4-59, the isn't affected and the ran to Queens.

Based on my NICE rides, I would say having the air assist on is a minority. Here in Pittsburgh, because of the downtown free fare zone and its associated fare policies (pay on exit outbound), the only time I seen rear doors opened (with a few occasional exceptions) is in downtown. Very annoying and time consuming when an outlying stop has passenger flow in both directions.

Well, everything's going to go via the West End or the Cranberry now, since the Crosstown's closed by GO.

weekend outages west of QBP start Oct 11. weekend outages north of Yankee Stadium Oct 12-13/19-20 weekend outages Howard Bch-Euclid runs until Oct 7, then comes 3 weekends of busing to/from the Rockaways, including the weekend before the 1 year anniversary

LIRR from Jamaica to Hicksville is around 25min. Then add bus/subway connections to your destination.

If that's the case, then why busing to/from Howard Beach when they could simply bus Euclid-Lefferts with the Rockaways section terminating at Rockaway Blvd?

I don't see why they would do the same ones again, unless it involves repeating the one-time runs. It seems like almost all subway line segments could work well for a bus-based FASTRACK. Is outdoor work on open cut/ground-level tracks allowed? They've been doing night busing of the in Queens lately.

The goal of a LTD/Express is to save travel time for those traveling longer distances. Unfortunately, diverting into RFM and Mineola wastes time. Yes, there aren't as many passengers, but it's rush hour service. I think the current n22L pattern is fine. The n22X should make limited stops (NYCT definition) east of RFM as well, being that it only runs reverse peak and that's when NICE ridership is highest.

I don't see why this post is so downvoted, it's true! When I rode the 22L it made every stop from the City Line to Willis. N22X isn't a "limited" in that it doesn't make select stops. It's basically a version of the N22 that makes no stops west of Mineola except for NHP Rd, subway and 165. East of Mineola it makes all stops. When I've ridden it, the scheduled travel time is usually close to accurate (buses can and do arrive late, but unless there's gridlock/an incident usually they don't lose that much more time)

No idea as to routes, but I remember an employee posted somewhere in this thread that the number of FASTRACK's will be much larger next year, almost weekly.

I did that a few times over the summer (N22/24 from Hicksville to 179th for the to Jay St). The long ride felt worse than the bus ride, and that's without peak-of-the-peak crowding.

What makes this strange is that nothing's posted for the ...

How did the first night go?

I think that's not a typo, the bus really does run express. But the only reason anyone would run two buses when the express doesn't save time would be if the original through trip was over capacity. Was that the case?

Given that they still need to transfer to the and that travel time isn't reduced by using coach buses (which have a lower capacity), not that much more.

Well, if the trips are removed in order to add potentially more productive evening/Sunday trips, then it's worth it.

Haven't seen that, but I will have to say that having been on the peak of the peak multiple times, the most crowded LIRR train I've ever ridden was by far a reverse-peak westbound during the week between Christmas and New Year's. Weekend trains aren't actually that crowded (barring a major event/parade/sports game/holiday). They seem that way, and can even appear SRO/packed, because everyone tends to pile onto the cars by the platform stairwell, standing if necessary.