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https://abc7ny.com/transgender-subway-voice-bernie-wagenblast/13193214/ I wish her the best of luck.

I’m going to stop you right there. Unless you heard it from a source directly connected to the testing program… that is hearsay. hell, they don’t even tell people like what’s going on with them.

oh... they're not. They most certainly are not... For example. they though the R143/R160 combo train was a "successful test" as the result of modifications to the cars... It was a screw up that should have never left ENY yard.

That is LESS simple. That is MORE confusing. Same reason they did not do the Yellow B and D routine 20 years ago. As for rebuilding the shuttle, that servers NO purpose so I don't know why you keep bringing it up. completely rebuilding it to a standard it NEVER was built for on the off chance it MIGHT be needed. You keep thinking BMT lines were served by trains longer than they actually were.

Well, it still runs four times a day, I would argue that qualifies…

Car assignments are the decision of the Division of Car Equipment. We take what we’re handed and we’re expected to like it.

could you not make assumptions about the issues we're facing if you're not privy to the information? It has nothing to do whether there were four tracks worked on at a time or one. Also, tell people you're going to do long term shutdowns of Manhattan trunk lines and see how well that goes over with them.

I know you're new around here, but rule 1 when it comes to subway train assignments is "Cars are not assigned to lines, they are assigned to inspection shops."

Why would we divert incompatible equipment to the subway? the 211Ss don't have CBTC hardware, so it would be a complete waste of time.

I swear we need a Broadway line swear jar for this thread…

well, ideally, sometime this week. SIRTOA is technically under Department of Subways but they're off in their own little corner, doing their own little thing. We really don't talk to them, and they really don't talk to us,

That NTT Q run is also the end of a two trip midnight job, Vs the three trips the Q crews normally make.

That’s what mock ups are. It was a completely non-functional car, built to see how the actual cars would look. After that it was probably scrapped.

we lock those doors when we isolate a car for whatever reason. what probably happened was that car had previously been isolated and someone forgot to unlock the storm doors when the car was "normalized". That's it. this is a non-issue... and I know that because I forgot once and had to go back and unlock it.

Suspicious package at Parsons Archer has cut the J back to Broadway Junction and the E and F to 71st.

The only statistic that matters is MDBF. cleanliness is the end result of circumstance. When and how often the cleaners can get the inside done, or how often the trains have access to a trip to the wash for their exterior. Pitken doesn’t have a wash and 207 yard is constantly shut down or access to it lost, due to the long term GOs affecting the upper 8th Ave line and the yard.

This is still not normal. They’re still trying to plug all the holes left from the pandemic ASAP. They will work that list till it cries uncle.

we've been testing the pilot train for over a year now. If there was something THAT drastically wrong with it, we would have found it by now.

And before anyone asks, “midlife rebuilds” are no longer a thing. That’s what we have SMS for, to not need anything that drastic.

yes, waiting for passengers to board the train defeats the purpose. the train operators do need time to swap out, you know. They don't stay on the train all day. There are six of them on duty, swapping out every few trips. us crews are human and have needs, after all.

there are tight corners where if I'm standing in the right side of the cab, the car in front swings so far that I can see straight through it. the storm door of the other cab lines up with the windshield of my cab. The R46s have a switch on the console, but it requires my door control key and it has to stay in the slot. the R68/As have a simple toggle switch on the wall.

Can we at least try to keep the tangents to a minimum, please? This is the R211 thread, not the fifty thousandth fantasy thread.

It would seem that it is impossible for them to turn the Q at Atlantic on F3. While I don’t see the GO paperwork in the system yet, it looks like the interlocking will be locked in place southbound. D will be directed over the bridge and through the bypass and express to 36th, while the N is using the tunnel and running local. turning the Q at Whitehall is just… no… please sweet merciful GOD no… the interlocking there is already problematic given how it operates with two lines … with three lines, I don’t want to be anywhere near it. the other logical location would be TSQ or 34, like what they did with the 63rd street shuttle in 1999… which leads me to believe there is another GO shutting down the Broadway Express tracks.

The G has been shorter than 600’ for… like… forever. For a while they ran 6 car R46 trains with the AA pairs coupled to a four car unit.

please tell me you're kidding? You are kidding, right...? RIGHT? Have you ever actually ridden across the Williamsburg Bridge? have you ever watched a video of a train crossing the bridge? That area, the track is level with the road. and they're actually separate structures. the road ramps and the pedestrian walkway are independent of the tracks on the bridge approaches. The Willy B is rather unique as a large suspension bridge where only the actual main span between the towers is suspended. the approaches are not connected to the cables, they're on support pillars below.