Kamen Rider

That’s been in the timetable for… well.. forever…

3 hours ago, Wallyhorse said:

Why not then do the to 145

Because the A, C and D sharing the downtown express track on CPW, there is no room.

and this Go is to supplement for the lack of the L in Manhattan, what good would 145 do for that?

2 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

And why not cut the  between Prospect Park & 96th St/2nd Av while they continue 7th Av’s track work and fit the  on 2nd? Solves both issues.

To my knowledge they are done with that project, at least for now. 
 

as a matter of fact, most of the work coming up on the Q is at the north end.

Here’s the thing… the Mikey wasn’t “cut in half”. 90% of M crews still have trips. 
 

yes, that has made Metropolitan Ave crew quarters very crowded, but, c’est la vie…

So the boosts on the other lines were not really at the expense of the Mikey, they are temporary jobs mostly filled by new people without fully picked jobs on a line.

The extra crew needs on the R actually surpassed what the M or E could give up.

22 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:

That seems completely unnecessary. Split the  by alternating between 96th St and Astoria so everyone isn’t waiting 15 minutes for a train.

Not possible, 96 will be occupied by the Mikey that weekend.

12 hours ago, Seth Jonas said:

4090-4099 are now together

 

12 hours ago, Seth Jonas said:

is 4235-4240 built

 

15 hours ago, Seth Jonas said:

4060-4064 now 

This isn’t Twitter, my friend. You can speak full sentences without worrying about character count.

Aside from the fact I don’t trust TikTok as far as I can throw it, that is not the same thing.

People rent out our facilities all the time to film stuff, that’s not the same thing as paying us to run a public passenger service.

25 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:

The full tall ones? Like the one on the uptown platform at 225th St.

No, not. HEET or an Iron Maden..

PATCO uses gates more like what they installed at Supthin-Archer, just… taller.

http://www.ridepatco.org/schedules/freedom_reduced_fare.html

1 hour ago, Wallyhorse said:

Couldn't they have run at least some trains to Essex-Delancey (on the )?  

No. They couldn’t.

No one pays us to run services one way or another.

What subway were you taking because we never had “gates” like PATCO’s…

"in the past 24 hours" yes. In the past 48 hours it's at least the fourth.

1 hour ago, BM5 via Woodhaven said:

The platform "barriers" were recently installed here:

Something a lot of people forget…

A barrier only stops people who want to be stopped…

The M to chambers on Friday has been canceled

I mean, it’s the best place for testing CBTC integration to the 211s at full speed. Sure we can test on yard tracks, but that’s at low speed and nothing beats a 3 mile flat out run to see how it all works together. And our only other option for that would be to wire up the flats and they’re not worth the effort.

15 minutes ago, Comrade96 said:

OR its a cbtc test train

ding ding ding we have a winner.

51 minutes ago, subwaycommuter1983 said:

guess the MTA wants the Jamaica crew to familiarise themselves with the r211's

Jamaica familiarization… survey says?

 X

Cause someone made a mistake typing that. The people in control who post this stuff are human, they make mistakes

i was caught up in this. Working the extended M, sat at Myrtle Broadway for an hour. Eventually worked my way up to Hewes and was turned around at Marcy middle. Ran back to Metro in service from Hewes.

3 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

@Kamen Rider hey, is LES 2nd Av controlled by West 4th tower now, or does someone have to manually go to the tower at 2nd Av to operate the switches?

West 4th tower doesn’t control anything anymore under normal circumstances. It has been superseded by 34 Master.

2nd avenue, however, is under a different tower, Essex Street Master.

About a month from now will be another L shutdown between Lorimer and 8th, meaning another weekend M through midtown, this time back to 96th/2nd

14 minutes ago, Around the Horn said:

4150-4159 are at Jamaica. Why, I have no idea.

You know the answer, you just need to think about it. 
 

Maybe a light will flash when you think hard enough, it might even flash green…

currently riding home on 4065 as north motor.

at least her half of the train has the platform side lights; though the ceiling sign still says “doors open”

4 hours ago, shiznit1987 said:

The tunnel  most definitely adds new stops:

No it does not, not in the sense I was aiming for. The tunnel is the default, the bridge is running express. 
 

imagine if there were stations on the Manhattan bridge and it’s approaches. Imagine if Myrtle Ave was still open. That’s what I’m talking about.

4 hours ago, shiznit1987 said:

all riders know stuff changes all around past 11pm or so

that is painting with an extremely wide brush. Unfortunately, not everyone is that smart. Some of them are so set in thier ways that even the most minor change throws them for a loop.
 

as for the rest:

it cuts service frequency to Queensbridge, Roosevelt Island and Lexington-63rd, because the M can never match the E and F for frequency (Williamsburg bridge)

it gives riders at those stations longer journeys into queens along with the shorter, more crowded trains. You think someone used to “next stop Roosevelt Avenue” is going to be happy with 36th?

It keeps the G a two transfer connection to the QBL locals as it is now due to the GO, since court square will only have expresses, meaning anyone who wants 36th to 65th will have to crowd in the E and F the one stop and then wait for the R at the plaza.

In summer 2001, over two weekends, transit simulated rush hour service. One weekend had the F staying on 53rd and the then V running via 63rd. Then it was flipped for the second weekend.

the F went via 63rd once the connection opened full time for a reason.

Given how much of a cluster F the 179s were, late, breaking down, doors opening while moving, breaking apart…

Would ordering more of them make anything that resembles sense to the people making those decisions?

I mean, there are only thirteen 10 car trains worth of 179s in existence, and they have started using the 179s out at Rockaway Park… so… they were never super abundant to begin with.