Kamen Rider

Click on the “180 Livingston has moved” banner at the top of the page, everything that you need is in there.

That’s the email for getting your list number reinstated. Youngking would need to get in contact with the pre-employment staff directly at Perepont street.

Because it’s still together… ever think not everything has a complex answer?

The Q was only going to Astoria because the N had been made a Manhattan local… again… without the W around. But the Q had been pegged as the 2nd Avenue service long before the 2010 service changes.

Because all those drop outs were the extra R jobs that were added for the GO.

No, they couldn’t have. The training for 211 qualification for an RTO T/O is two days. A conductor, it’s one day… because our training is only in how these cars differ from the other NTT cars we’re already familiar with. the SIR crews don’t have that familiarity to go off of. they would need at least a full week, if not longer, and when you only have X number of people you can spare for an entire week to maintain service… this gets to be a drawn out process.

I think we ether need to rename this thread or spin off a new one for sharing our road based pearls of wisdom beyond Schoolcar. like, for example, just because you are running on the express track during a GO… don’t expect to actually go faster. You will probably be crawling along at 10MPH past more yellow lights than you can count. “Express” just means “I’m not stopping”.

There is a saying you might have heard of… “Measure twice, cut once” the SIR counterparts of the mainline RTO divisions have ZERO experience with NTT series equipment. things we’ve all taken for granted for the last 25 years (never mind the under the hood action)… like automated announcements… are brand new to them. i can set up the AAS on a 211A in about 15-20 seconds. Throw these poor guys on the 211S without proper training and it will probably take them 15-20 minutes…

I think we once again need to go over what being a “pilot program” is. the gates we have up now are not designed to be permanent. They are testing the concept. the gates in Japan are supposed to be permanent.

People don’t grasp the topology of the system because of many reasons; most notably the popular media trope that the system is much larger than it actually is, with miles and miles of abandoned tunnels. Or that connections exist where there are none. we have to be mindful that not everything that seems common to us is common to everyone else. I am a digital native. I grew up around computers and technology. Issues that are common sense fixes to me might as well be magic to my grandparents generation… we are “subway natives”… some of us could probably draw the track maps from memory… we know where everything thing is. the average person does not.

Actually… they were just ordered to once again stop production of the units… https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pittsburgh/news/philips-respironics-court-order-overhaul-manufacturing-distribution/

Almost as if they forgot what WAA stands for…

nope. In fact, that was one of my first gigs out of school car. That being said, the reasoning between then and now is completely different. Then was about equipment availability and safety. Today it's just about not having my middle of the train butt around yet keeping within the contract.

World Cup stadium bids were long ago decided. Put it this way… I was on my train during the aftershock and felt nothing.

To build on what Goliver said… this isn’t a job… this is a career. This is a responsibility you NEED TO TAKE SERIOUSLY. Over the course of my probation… I was NEVER late. Not once. I only called out sick once, and that was for Covid, which is, or at least was at the time, off in its own little corner of the rules. Unless something had gone wrong, I was always 15 minutes early for my reporting time. Some times even earlier. Partly because I knew where I was going… a few of my classmates eventually got lost. One went to Ditmas instead of Ditmars. Another went to the wrong Bay Parkway. Told they had a Delta job… went to Bay Parkway Sea Beach.

maybe you all should have thought about that before you started calling for Airtrain LGA to be canceled, as that would have given the entire Willets Point station complex a full renovation.

Because the questions you asked are how retailer jobs tend to operate…

You asked about “completing assignments” and “getting done what can be got done”… Let’s call it a “business” mindset then. Ether way, we don’t operate anywhere near that in transit.

Need to get out of the retail mindset because that is nowhere near what the job is like. the lines assignments are broken up into pre-set jobs. These jobs all have pre-assigned trips. Those are your trips to do and that’s what you’re going to do unless something has gone wrong.

I mean, I remember as well… but remembering doesn’t get me a one seat ride home from midtown after 9 or a two seat one after midnight… which is something I have long complained about. Starting from center of Times Square station, standing outside the old record store… you can travel to every single station in the system with, at most, just one transfer 24/7*…. EXCEPT for the non-transfer stations on the Myrtle Avenue El in the midnight hours. (*barring GOs of course)

a lot of what goes on behind the scenes tends to be, to keep things short and simple, well above my pay grade to ether question or understand. They tell me where to go and when, and I get my caboose there.

I mean… have you met the human race… there are people who have absolute meltdowns over the personal lives of total strangers… common sense doesn’t exist anymore. common sense says “tell them you’re an employee when they try to stop you.” common sense says “show them your pass” common sense says “DON’T HIT OTHER PEOPLE! COP OR NOT, KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF!” Then again it’s amazing the number of people who have asked me to let them through the gate and can’t process “I am not a station agent. I do not have the authority to let you in.”

There was also a GO those two weekends taking out T1/B5 track from the 63rd street cut down through to 47-50th, so 96th and 57th were out of the question anyway.

And the main purpose of sending the M up from Essex in the first place is because there is no L service between 8th and Lorimer at all. The N is at least running to all its station stops. On the hierarchy of service changes, substituting for service suspension comes before limited frequency. it’s one weekend. You know how often I’ve had to deal with complete suspensions of service on week days on the M around my house? little tired of people moving heaven and earth to make life easier for some people, while little old me, shuttle bus at 9 AM on a Tuesday…

Considering the one numb nut who made the news… we are always supposed to swipe ourselves in through the turnstiles with our passes.