S78 via Hylan

Some posters here praising the RTS’ retirement will be the same exact ones complaining that newer buses don’t last as long and how “old equipment” is always better. Then there will be several members out of nowhere will suddenly going on about how they were “the best buses we had”. Just give it time....

For next month:

 No service between 14 St and South Ferry: April 12-15

 Reduce service: April 6-7, 13-14

 Downtown service is express from East 180 St to 3 Av-149 St: April 13-14

 Service is local in Manhattan: April 6-8, *13-15    *local south of 34 St

 No late night service: April 5-8

 Reduced service north of Burnside Av: April 6-7

 Woodlawn bound trains run express from Burnside to Woodlawn: April 6-7

 No service between Bowling Green and Utica/New Lots Avs: April 12-15

 Service is local in both directions between Grand Central and Union Sq: April 13-15

 Dyre Av bound service runs express from East 180 St to Dyre Av: April 5-8

 Reduced service: April 13-14

 Split service at 125 St: April 13-15, 20-22

 No service between Main St and Willets Point: April 13-15, 20-22

 Uptown service is express from Canal to 59 Sts: April 5-8

 Reduced service: April 13-14

 Downtown service is express from 168 to 125 Sts, 59 to Canal Sts; All queens bound service is express in Brooklyn: April 13-15

 Reduced service: April 6-7

 Operates via Sea Beach in Brooklyn, both directions: April 5-8, 12-15

 All service is express in Brooklyn from Atlantic-Barclays to 36 St: April 5-8

 Operates via 63 St, both directions and runs via the   to 2 Av (No service to World Trade Center): April 5-8

 Service is local in Queens: April 6-8, 13-15

 No service between Bedford-Nostrand Avs and Court Sq: April 5-8, 12-15

 No service between Hewes St and Broad St: April 5-8

 No service between Crescent St and Jamaica Center: April 13-14

 Split service between at Broadway Junction: April 13-14

 No service between Myrtle Av and Essex St: April 5-8

 Service is suspended: April 13-14, 20-21

 Reduced service: April 6-7

 No service between Ditmars Blvd and Queensboro Plaza: April 6-7, 13-14

 Reduced service: April 6-7

 Manhattan bound service runs express from Kings Hwy to Prospect Park: April 13-14, 20-21

 No late night service between Whitehall St and Atlantic-Barclays: April 12-15

(SIR) No service between Hugenot and Tottenville: Apr 6-8, 13-15

Notes: 

Court Sq bound  trains will bypass Flushing Av from April 8 to May 6

Winthrop Av - Flatbush Av bound platform is closed through July 2019

Eastchester Av - Dyre Av bound platform is closed through September 2019

Astoria Blvd   is closed through December 2019

168 St  is closed through early 2020

1 hour ago, m2fwannabe said:

3226-29 arrived this week.?.?  We hope.

Not yet. It would have been reported with pics and vids.

20 minutes ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

That's good, but that 5:30 is still missing. I spoke with David Weprin again the other day. He's going to write a letter to Darryl Irick about what in the hell is going on with the QM1 at night.  I showed him various posts from QM1 riders in the group too.

I just want to say that you're doing an excellent job helping express bus riders get the service they deserve. We need more individuals like you to stand up and fight for what's right. Things aren't perfect, but your efforts have and are making an impact. Keep it up! 

4 minutes ago, Abba said:

I know I’ve been taking about this a lot. However I want to know . Is there anything that can be done about the train With brakes activated. It seems like there is a bunch of emails a day about it, I mean can something be done about it? 

The thing is, it isn’t always the trains themselves. Sometimes, they hit things on the road that cause them to go BIE. 

2 hours ago, Calvin said:

3222-25:6-9, 3230-3:4-7 = 2 more trains = 4

And also 3070-3073.

31 minutes ago, RR503 said:

And do what about platform crowding and ridership disruption risk that results from load concentration? 

Forty, fifty years ago, we had more peak hour riders and generally more even ridership distribution across trunks. One of the many factors at play in the current state of affairs is that we’ve completely failed to distribute ridership during growth — corridors like Lex and 7th have been growing beyond capacity while we let CPW, Montague etc lie fallow. That’s just bad planning.

So yeah, the  will be more likely to be disrupted if it goes to South Brooklyn. But it would provide some service diversity. The focus should be on enabling routes like that to function — in your words, “fix their signals and terminals” — not sacrificing passenger convenience for operational expedience. 

Crowding will happen during the rush no matter what you do. Extending the  would not provide “service diversity” as you put. You’re just throwing another issue into the mix. 

I’m all for improving passenger service, but  not if it entails extending a line aimlessly. It didn’t work with the brown M and it won’t work with the .

Absolutely negative on the  to Bay Ridge as it’ll just make the line more unreliable. It already has long intervals to begin with. The last thing we need is it being even more delayed due to signal trouble, sick passengers, etc in South Brooklyn.

If you want to lesson crowding on the IRT, here’s what you do: Fix their signals and terminals to increase capacity.

13 minutes ago, MHV184 said:

The Nova LFS might be delayed due to what the MTA has in store for Staten Island since they are planning to have the new OMNY on those buses starting April or June

The LFS are delayed due to a failed audit as ENY pointed out. It has nothing to do with OMNY. YU is still set to receive the LFS as transit wants the hybrids off the island.

The R143s seem to be making their presence known on the  again. While this isn’t new, I’m noting it as they haven’t been on the Jamaica line lately compared to some months ago when I would see up to four sets in one ride.

46 minutes ago, trife86 said:

Not in SI, maybe they put up the wrong signs by accident but all limiteds were instructed to make all local stops (minus the 93 and 89 of course) from at least 0430hrs and still on going.

You sure? I did see some SI LTD’s on bustime, unless the wrong signs were put up like you suggested.

22 hours ago, Lil 57 said:

Note to SI LTD bus riders

Don't expect to see any LTD service running tommorow, save the S89 and S93. The snowstorm has made SI give alot of their LFS buses to Manhattan. This will make a shortage of buses for tommorow which would ultimately lead to the  cancelling LTD service.

22 hours ago, trife86 said:

LTD gets cancelled in bad weather anyway

Most LTD’s ran this morning.

57 minutes ago, Enjineer said:

Saw an R142A on the  today! It went express from E 180 St to Pelham Parkway, and it then came back down out of service. Not sure how/why it ended up on the , but I did manage to grab a photo of it: 

 

The  usually borrows sets from the  when it’s split due to GOs. Such was the case this morning for just over two hours.

That and the full shutdown being halted.

1 hour ago, S78 via Hylan said:

I can’t speak for the R42s, but there are still R143s on the line. Saw some in service on Wednesday.

Since it’s too late for me to edit, I just saw an R143 in service leaving 121 St just now.

32 minutes ago, m2fwannabe said:

There were zero MK R-42's in the  cycle on February 28.  No R-143's either.  Just lots of R-160A-1's and R-179's.

I can’t speak for the R42s, but there are still R143s on the line. Saw some in service on Wednesday.

22 minutes ago, VIP said:

So no one is gonna ask why most to all of East New York’s R179’s were all OOS today...

That can’t be. I rode one on the  and saw another set in service earlier this afternoon.

Still nothing on those 251 LFS?

3 hours ago, P3F said:

Y'all are making this much more complicated than it needs to be. The simplest solution is to extend the or to 95th Street to provide additional service. I would advocate for the because extending it would mean that Williamsburg is a simple cross platform transfer away from all of the BMT Southern Division lines. Creating a stub line in this case would be simply wasteful.

I read at some point that 95th Street is restricted to turning 10 trains per hour. Since the is scheduled at that, any additional service would require some kind of change at the terminal, assuming the restriction is true. It could be false information for all I know, though.

Extended the ? Absolutely not. I don’t need it delayed when I’m going home because of potential setbacks from increasing the route length. Simply fix 95 Street to allow more trains to turn, extend some rush hour  trips and call it a day.

20 minutes ago, Q23 via 108 said:

In my honest opinion, I would run the R62As on the  till they die. I don't see the need to scrap Livonia's R62A's since the line it only has two stops. I can see R62As (on the shuttle) running along side with the new R262s. Granted, if the 62As begin to prove unreliable than yeah, give it some tech. But if the oldest R32s can run on the  (the longest route) than I'm pretty sure a couple of R62As can do the  (the shortest).

Although the  42 St is only two stops, remember that it’s R62As see heavy usage every day and it’s completely underground.

Why is there such a push for 10-car R32s on the ? I’m sure if they wanted to do that, it would have happened already.

13 hours ago, TransitMan0251 said:

8300 YUK to CAST 

I would hold off on this as SI depots tend to cover trips other routes to make service.

17 minutes ago, Deucey said:

@RR503, or anyone else who gets routings on a higher level than "I wish", why couldn't you free up DeKalb capacity - even if you get rid of the videoscreen switching, by running  on West End,  on Sea Beach, and  on Brighton?

Brighton riders will not tolerate the loss of the .

1 hour ago, m2fwannabe said:

R-46's on are missing on weekdays for now, likely pending a better reliability from the R-179's, but are still present on weekends, albeit one or two.

They’re still out there on weekdays too. Spotted one on the just a few minutes ago at a Broadway Junction.

2 minutes ago, TheNewYorkElevated said:

At Rector Street where Trinity Street intersects Morris Street and an off ramp from the tunnel, you can see the entrances to the  train stop and the / stop across the street from each other. And I've been wondering "why wasn't a transfer built here?" 

There’s already a transfer between those lines at South Ferry, so it isn’t needed.