Kamen Rider

again... that's subjective that we're doing it too much. Management feels like we're not doing it enough. 

8 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

What is with these NYPD announcements? They are doing way to much with the announcement programs these days.

They want us to do it. We get yelled at if we don’t do it enough. We literally have TSSs at certain stations watching us. One even shoved a clip board with the announcement script in my face mid way through my normal announcements (this is a ____ bound…. (Clipboard appears) Let me finish…)

4 hours ago, R32 3838 said:

If the stayed would have been reduced to rush hour only because during the midday the lay ups that usually laid up north of 57th st couldn't lay up there anymore due to the work they were doing in that area for 2nd ave and lex and 63 station rehab. They laid those trains up between times sq and just south of 57th st on the express tracks. This is also why the ran local between 34th and 57th st to Astoria.

Still not the reason the W was ended, nor the reason why the Q stopped at 49th.

The combination of the M/V and the cut of the W was purely for saving money. This was not about saving cars or SAS construction. Where the heck did you come up with that? 

2 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

The  should have been 10 cars already since 2015.

Why? Was that ever said that was the plan? or are you just assuming... again... much like this constant assumption everyone has that the C will go to all 600 feet...

8 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:

You need to chill with the attitude, I don’t know what is your problem with anyone that remotely has a different opinion then you.

dude... you presented your opinion about them as fact. 

3 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

I am really disappointed with NYCTA’s decision to prematurely retire the R32’s and R42’s.

And... to be honest... that wasn't a premature decision. They were being held togther with faith and ducktape...

to be frank, i keep hearing many people crying about a car shortage... when: 

A: they never really share serious evidence of its effects. I'm not saying it's not there, just that no one ever seems to show how there is a problem...

B: you ignore the real shortage that is affecting service... PEOPLE. we are not done building back up our employee roster post Covid. We still have a crew shortage which is much worse than a car shortage. 

furthermore... given the circumstances they were retired in... a deadly viral pandemic... having a set up where I, as conductor, would have to exit into the passenger compartment every time I needed to change which side I was operating was not an ideal situation. 

1 is the only goal.

2 would at best be a bonus.

13 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:

Regarding the Enhanced Station Initiative, were they any above ground stations that got an ESI renovation?

Astoria Line

i guess that's a better spot for me to be in. I'm already in the 10% of XX conductors. I do not want to go back down to the bottom.

I mean, heck, starting tomorrow I'm S/S AMs...

We gave them shuttle buses when the Culver project started.

they didn't use the shuttle buses.

We stopped running them.

and then they started complaining about not having a shuttle bus they didn't use in the first place...

Yeah, this reeks of bias.

the Z exists as a skip stop. If you were old enough to remember the 9, you’d see the logic.

as for the rest…

a lot of what you take as factual issues are subjective ones.

you rates the 5 as worse than the 4 just on other people complaining about it.

people complain all the time about everything, even the problems they themselves cause…

9 hours ago, Theli11 said:

Avenue D says hello /s

actually, I checked, they're still within the 20 minutes thanks to the Avenue A entrance at First Avenue on the L. 

Cars are assigned to inspection barns, not to lines. The J/Z does not have any 179s. East New York has 179s. The only reason they are currently limited to the J/Z is CBTC

as I understand it, 207’s barn is not long enough to hold a full 600’ train. Looking at Google maps, it’s just a hair too short for a full train. One car would be partly out the door.

I know they’re making changes to the yard complex and this might include making the barn longer in the long run, but it’s part of the reason the C is 8 car trains at 60’… that’s all the barn can hold.

and you are not going to do just one unit at a time, that’s not economical. You want a full train in there.

3 hours ago, Wallyhorse said:

 

Columbia is a major employer to upper Manhattan on the west side.  That, and upper west side riders having easy access to the east side via a new crosstown portion of the SAS make it worthwhile alone.

Doing a connection from the SAS at St. Nicholas/125 to the 8th Avenue line aside from giving the SAS access to both the Concourse and 207th Street yards and the and being able to use the SAS in an emergency allows for the SAS to run a line straight to 207 on the or Bedford Park Boulevard on the .  Obviously, you also then can have special SAS Yankees trains as well.   

then where's St. John's University's subway extension? Or Queens College? Why should Colombia get MORE service on top of the options that already exist... when these two don't have rail transit right at their door step? 

"Upper west side riders have easy access to" blah blah blah...

It's only just occurred to me that you just don't care about the outer boroughs.

You want Manhattanites to be chauffeured every which way from Sunday, meanwhile not a single person on the island of Manhattan is more than a 20 minute walk away from a subway station.

Meanwhile...

There are massive swaths of Brooklyn and queens with only buses.

Let's pick a spot on goggle maps... let's go with the intersection of Linden Blvd and Sutphin Blvd in South Jamaica. That's a 26-minute walk from Jamaica Station/ Supthin-Archer. and before you mention the LIRR stops at St. albins or Locus Manor... that's still longer no matter which way you go. 

Which should be more important... adding capacity where it's not needed... or adding capacity where it doesn't exist, period! 

43 minutes ago, R32 3838 said:

 

I don't see the problem with this, I don't get the issue at all. As long as we keep it respectful, I don't see the issue with it at all. That's the point of a forum. I get it it can get annoying but unless it's a rule (which would really be dumb) It shouldn't be an issue. It's like when people talk assignments, people get anal about it when it isn't serious. we all know assignments are subject to change.

The problem is we keep beating the same dead horse over and over and over. There is never anything new with that section of the conversation.

we keep going down this same avenue people keep making the same points, and they are making the odd points as if they are factual instead of their assumptions and opinions. 

… they’re not going to build anything just because of Columbia, especially when there massive transit deserts with no rail service.

maybe instead of worrying if the A has a bypass if CPW has a problem, could we spend some time on places like Queens and Brooklyn where the trains don’t go…

Okay… people… can we keep the arguing over equipment allocation out of this thread?

NOTHING is set in stone beyond the first 211As replacing Pitkin’s R46 compliment.

Everything else, we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.

could the 211s end up In Concourse? Yes. 
could they end up at Jamaica? Also yes.

the simple answer is we’re not at the point yet.

this is like asking someone who just had a child where they’re going to high school. There are things that need to happen before we get to that point.

so, do us all a favor and have a little more patience.

16 hours ago, ABOGbrooklyn said:

So why are Fs running local at night still?

Because they are running around the R layups. These trains normally would be parked on the east end of the line, but that is the section they are installing CBTC on right now.

technically, as I understand it, it's supposed to go off who is scheduled to go first. 

We’ve been fully operational west of Kew to as far as 50th/8th for over a year.

2 hours ago, Ale188 said:

The 211S just transferred to Pitkin with an NIS 160. Proof:

Oh great. This has some foam in it...

 

The 160 is running as a Protect train. Someone goes wrong, she couples up and pushes it out of the way under “other than head car operating” rules.

1 hour ago, Calvin said:

There's a mechanical problem with the  train at Rockaway Parkway as it was seen in photo of the train in the middle position swinging a sharp left curve. 

There is a term for that mechanical problem…

a derailment.

49 minutes ago, Comrade96 said:

Amen for them cup holders otherwise f**k them 179s lmao

You would think someone would have the smarts to

A: figured out this was a good idea a long time ago

or at the very least

B: start retrofitting them to at the very least the older NTTs immediately.

Seriously, just spot weld them to the door. Can’t take that much time. You could do it for each set during their inspection cycles.

8 hours ago, darkstar8983 said:

So now we’ll probabaly see (by late July/early August a big shift in the cars assigned to the )

- Assuming the 63 St tunnel project starts 08/01/2023:

 trains will have about 4-5 R211s running in addition to the usual 10-11 R179s supplementing it’s R46s

 trains may end up fully R179s temporarily due to a reduction in ENY car requirements allowing them to get by with just the R160s

the flaw with that plan is the possibility of the fact that we're going to have a place to put them. 207 yard is closed every weekend and Pitkin still had a boat load of R32s lying around last time I was there. 

Also... as someone who works the midnights and therefore doesn't do the C and instead often gets J jobs...

YOU'RE NOT TAKING AWAY MY CUP HOLDERS!!!

(The R179 and R211s are the only cars with cup holders in the cabs for the crew, so our water or coffee is always at arm's length, and we don't need to worry about it. It's damn useful.) 

There wasn’t. She’s having some modifications done to correct for earlier flaws. She did not run yesterday.