Kamen Rider

Here is how I see it:

The B is the independent line, not part of another line like the W and Z, with the shortest service time. Out of a 168 week, it only runs about 85 hours. Roughly 17 hours a day,Monday through Friday.

yes there is our behind the scenes stuff, but I’m just talking about passenger service.

I don’t think putting brand new trains on a line where they will be idle for half the time makes much sense. Sure, the C goes to bed at night, but it works weekends… The B doesn’t.

New hires don’t get double. Like I said, my first day was Memorial Day, I only got time and a half.

1 hour ago, R32 3838 said:

With the way transit is, The will get techs, The re-routes on 8th ave is the main factor of the and getting techs. Yes they can still use older non cbtc equipment in CBTC areas but they don't want the road to get screwed up. So it makes sense just to give the and techs and get it over with plus 6th ave is going to have CBTC as well so it's killing 2 birds with one stone.

The way transit is, the B gets suspended the moment something goes wrong. The reroute they’re more worried with the D about is Culver, not 8th Avenue.

2 hours ago, subwaycommuter1983 said:

Let's not forget that ridership is growing, "B" and "D" trains need to be fully NTTs due to CBTC.

technically, the B does not. 

43 minutes ago, Trainmaster5 said:

 I don’t think the introduction of the new equipment will help improve the quality of service to any degree.

For a lot of people, it's often also what comes with the new equipment.

In the case of the R211s, that would be CBTC on 8th Avenue, which means retirement of much of the legacy signal hardware that is often the root cause of problems. 

Can we keep this nonsense in the other thread…?

If they go by the same schedule, you will still have Saturday and Sunday off. I don’t know what they’ll do with Memorial Day for you… because that was my first day. But they did give us July 4th off (and had us work Saturday) so who knows…

After the first week, one day a week will be “Road Operations”, where you take a train and practice making station stops. As a side note, during road ops, if your train gets stuck and your 8 hour day ends, your TSS instructors will dump you all off at the next opportunity because you are not entitled to overtime during class instruction.

you must pass the following tests.

1: climb an R68 from ground level twice*

2: elevated structure walk

3: tunnel walk

4: a written midterm exam*

5: a practical test in the yard*

6: a written final exam*

7: a road practical test.
 

Tests makes with *, you have two chances 

1: climb a smaller A division train. If you had been made B division, you will be switched out to A.

4/6 take the test over, but while the first chance was multiple choice, the re-do fully write out each answer.

5: take the test over with a higher ranking supervisor watching you.

and just don’t do anything notable… like the guy who broke his finger pushing a button…

(And no that wasn’t me…)

There does seem to be a glitch, at least for the 8 car units on the Mikey, every time my parter for the day accepts ATO the computer keeps reporting “BIE Alerter” on my screen while under ATO control, despite never dumping the train and my partners all using the alerter correctly. 

7 hours ago, FourYou said:

is the test all multiple choice???

All civil service exams are multiple choice. It’s those Scantron “fill in the bubble” things.

9 hours ago, Youngking said:

Do you have any phone number or email for that department 

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.

3 hours ago, Seth Jonas said:

why is the pilot set still together

Because it’s still together…

ever think not everything has a complex answer?

On 4/15/2024 at 8:18 AM, zacster said:

The alternative is to have those same people needing the training anyway while the cars sit idle.  That is poor project planning.  Pay me now or pay me later.

That’s not how it works when you are dealing with trains. Especially when you’ve only got 1. 

3 hours ago, CenSin said:

This can’t be it since the was already going to Astoria at that time. It also wouldn’t be the first time the (re)opening of a line shuffled a whole bunch of routes.

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.

5 hours ago, Calvin said:

There's a change in the  train schedule that took effect on April 1st, when the  was back at 63rd St, Roosevelt Island and 21 St-Queensbridge: 

* There are only 2 trains during the AM rush that goes out of service, the usual  to Coney Island from the tripper to 96 St and just 7:47 AM from Forest Hills to 59 St, Brooklyn. They both come back from the Coney Island Yard PM hours as a 3:17 and 3:48 from 36 St station where the and  are at.

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

17 hours ago, zacster said:

They could've been learning all that along with the crews from Pitkin. 

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”. 

2 hours ago, zacster said:

Why is this taking so long? 

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…

On 4/10/2024 at 5:59 PM, Chris89292 said:

I’ve seen another transit system on instagram with platform barriers that are designed better than the cheap hideous ones on our subways, it’s located in Japan and the design is similar to ours but built with iron metal, it has space for doors to open, it’s not fully closed off but it looks very modern type, unlike ours with yellow paint on it, looks like something out of the 60’s, MTA is downgrading so bad now a days

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.

On 4/8/2024 at 12:49 PM, Comrade96 said:

yeah if it wasnt for the CPAP stuff I wouldve probably been hired between april-june of 2022 but I got in at september of that year, do they still have the machine shortage going on?

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… 

2 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

Um, dosent the Rockaway shuttle on summer weekends run opto?

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.

16 hours ago, Chris89292 said:

As you all know today, New York experienced a 4.8 Earthquake today, and I’m wondering what’s the protocol when an earthquake of this magnitude or larger happens on the subway?? Do the trains go on halt? 

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.

2 hours ago, Chris89292 said:

I wonder why the MTA hasn’t made Mets Willets point accessible, when will the board members act and do something🤷‍♂️

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.