Art Vandelay

R110Bs are retired- The 4 remaining on property can be renumbered if needed. R68s do not fall within this number scheme. (I am not saying that the post is correct- I am nearly certain it is not, but it would not be impossible. )

As transit? 0. If it were somehow suddenly ready to be used, it would just be abandoned again.

PATCO. Technically outside of Philly, but the metropolitan area.

In Boston, In Washington, In Philadelphia. That said, TriboroRX Would probably have to be FRA compliant, as it would likely share tracks with the freight line, not just the ROW.

CBTC Ready, not CBTC equipped. The car requires no modification for CBTC outside of the installation of the actual CBTC equipment.

Yes.

Also remember- 80 of those are going to Staten Island.

I think that is what would actually happen- R moves to 36th street, T to Jamaica.

That is the Q, not the T. The T isn't happening anytime soon.

Put the R32s on the B, move R68s over to the N/Q/W, move R160s over to Jamaica.

1612(R211)+300(R179)-222(R32)-50(R42) -940(R46) -80(R44)= 620 You could start to retire the R68/R68A fleet if all the options are taken. Yes, you could probably find space for most of that equipment, although you might have to start getting creative. My guess is: Option 1 is intended to finish the retirement of the R46 Option 2 is intended for SAS Phase II/other growth.

I don't believe there is any consideration of ordering more than 1612 cars. Where is anybody getting a higher number from?

IINM A cars can only be coupled to B cars. Married pairs can't be created of NTT cars. R gets R160s from Coney Island.

75.

Your math is incorrect. It takes 940 cars to replace the R46 fleet. Also remember- Some portion of the R32/42 will end up being replaced by the R179. While they may not be retired immediately, at least some of them will not be needed after the Canarsie Tubes reopen.

That is correct, but in the AM rush the A only uses 38 trains, so the total at that time is 56. That C becomes an A for the PM rush, so it is included in the total I listed. I used the PM totals as they are one train greater.

A requires 40 trains. C requires 17 trains. That is 57 trains total. There are 93 and 3/4 trains worth of R46s. Yes, there are enough R46s to fully run the A and C.

Any source will say that today. That is true regardless of whether the order has since been modified. Has no effect either for or against the veracity of said rumors.

Actually, the Q52/Q53 are pretty damn fast. It is a stunning improvement. Yes. Every line has capacity outside of rush hour. But what is the point of building a connection that can't possibly be used in the peak or the shoulder?

If all of it were to be fully developed to the greatest extent possible, The Rockaways might come close to justifying the service they have today. And for that very market... We have the Q52/Q53! Empty E and F? Are you doing a stand-up routine?

Gentrifying the Rockaways doesn't make the RBL more feasible. There really isn't that much land there to provide enough population to justify more trains.

The L goes through neighborhoods which are much closer to Manhattan and had a much higher potential for growth/gentrification. The L also actually goes to manhattan and had the potential to grow in capacity. The Queens Boulevard line has no capacity to take in these riders either. Most of the city needs more transportation TODAY. In 50 years, they'll all still need more capacity than the Rockaways will.

It is only being studied because a few politically connected people want it to be studied. The difference between an LGA connection and a RBL reactivation is that the LGA connection actually has a potential market, with an airport which does not have an existing rail transit connection, running through dense neighborhoods which do not have adequate transit. RBL has an airport which is already connected to Manhattan- VIA 4 LINES! It would go through neighborhoods which would go through less dense neighborhoods which ALREADY HAVE TRANSIT (and underutilized transit at that). IF the RBL was already built and connected on both ends, the first thing the MTA would do is abandon it. It is truly a useless line.

Queens CBTC will start with R160s, prior to the delivery of the R211 order. That said, there is nothing stopping the R211 from going there once they come in, bumping the R160s to the additional 4 lines requiring CBTC equipped trains once 8th has CBTC installed as well.

Yes, but R211s don't have to run on 8th avenue to enable Eighth Avenue CBTC. If you put the R211s on the D E F and half the A, you can move the R160s currently on the E and F to the rest of the A and the B/C. (ETC. I am making a hypothetical, the numbers don't perfectly work out. My point is that you need to have the R211s for 8th ave CBTC, although you don't actually need to run them on 8th ave. ) The signals need replacement. Replacement is the answer. Thales Seltrac and Siemens Trainguard MT are the specific systems used so far in the necessary replacement, both of which are forms of CBTC.