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Kamen Rider

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  1. So, to keep this threat at the top, let’s talk Job picking.

    Here is one fact about picking you should know… it is such a long process, because everyone, and I DO mean EVERYONE, gets their turn, that even though our current pick only went into effect in the middle of December… we started picking the NEXT pick, for the back half of 2024, over a month ago.

    The A division picks first, and then B goes. A started first week of February and they’ve got another week and a half left.

     

  2. 2 hours ago, subwaycommuter1983 said:

    Option 1 will make the C 100% full length with 10 car trains and may allow the G to get 8 car trains. If that happens, then the G may have to go back to CI. Option 1 will provide NTTs to the B/D.

    Option 2 may allow the G to become full length with 10 car trains.

    Rolling stock line assignments is the decision of the people in Car Equipment. They are their own separate division within the Department of Subways, separate from us in Service Delivery/RTO. Whatever justifications they might have or feel, they can upend the entire fleet on a whim and a moment’s notice, that is how much authority they have.

    No one who works there actively posts here, so all you have is us “Master Controller Jocks” and “Button mashers” from RTO to try to explain people we often don’t get to talk to outside of when something has gone wrong. 


    that being said, word on high still seems to suggest the two options in play are:

    A: send the option R211s directly to the D and Concourse.

    or

    B: send the option R211s to Jamaica and have Concourse get R160s.

  3. 3 hours ago, NJMike73 said:

    this exam is not listed on dcas any more it was removed and transit  exam unit closed it

    Were about have a lot of guys hit retirement from a serious hiring push around the turn of the millennium. 
     

    we NEED bodies in Schoolcar NOW. We NEED Extra Extra conductors NOW.

    so that once these guys start putting thier papers in, there will be people to fill the gaps. Turnover is so high, it is a serious possibility people like Goliver and I could have full, straight picked jobs before we hit top pay.

    They are not going to do something counterproductive to that end such as stopping hiring and ending the list. 

  4. Couple of weeks back I was on the Lima, heading Canarsie bound on my last trip, my TO canceled ATO, sounded the horn and slowed down as I swear we passed some flashing lights… but no work zone on the screen.*

    called it in to control myself.
     

    (* the conductor CBTC screen doesn’t give us the same details as the TO, but we still get to know what mode our train is in, and what the status of the CBTC in our area is… and suddenly going from ATO to manual is actually a serious red flag)

  5. 35 minutes ago, Wallyhorse said:

    A lot of the things I see are things that could be done, especially in terms of one-seat rides.

    To paraphrase Jeff Goldbloom as Dr Ian Malcom…

     

    “You spend so much time thinking if it CAN be done you NEVER consider if it SHOULD be done…”

     

    your suggestions have a habit of working on the principle most people call “robbing Peter to pay Paul”… taking service away from people who use it in favor of giving more service to areas that do not and routes that people do not take.

    SAS does not need two services. If the SAS passengers want 6th Ave service, they can change trains for the F across the platform once service restarts. 
     

    41 minutes ago, Wallyhorse said:

    specifically because I know the area growing up there

    But you don’t live there NOW… you haven’t lived there for years… decades even at this point IIRC… so why should you be taken as an authority on a subject when your information isn’t even from this century…

  6. 36 minutes ago, LGA Link N Train said:

    Folks as in people from different MoW Departments or Tresspassers?

    look through the safety advisory backlog, lots of improper flagging on CBTC-ATO territory. setting up without calling it in. setting up on the wrong track. setting up the wrong configuration. 

  7. Can we not turn a serious conversation about a construction project into “service fantasy thread #7345217”

    that is probably the most annoying thing people do around here.

    Feels like every single thread some armchair with too much free time has to try to suggest a “better” way to do something…

    and I keep saying in this thread it’s unnecessary, we already have plans in place for such work in our back pockets for when we need it… and nobody listens to me…

     

  8. again, a protentional 53rd street shut down is NOT the same level of work. We really don't need to worry about the M in these circumstances.

     

    what they are doing in 63rd, in case none of you have paid a visit, is completely ripping out the concrete tunnel floor down to the bare steel that separates the subway and LIRR levels. 

    this is to replace the direct fixation track (IIRC also known as "Type 8" track) with the more common and easier to work on "Type 2 modified", the kind you see on most of the IND, with the fixed half ties in the concrete, and occasional full cross ties. 

     

    The 53rd street tunnel is "type 2" as originally built, so the work it would need would be simple rail replacement, which will not require heavy construction for months on end. 

    This could easily be done weekends and overnights. 

    Or, if they want it done super quick, they just cut the M back to Essex/Chambers again, the way they used to do for that annual weeklong closure that was often done between Christmas and New years. 

     

  9. 3 hours ago, joey kranczer said:

    i would like to suggest to the mta to start building the new r268 subway cars by 2025-26 that way we have better service 

    The R262s are first on the docket after the R211s are done. nothing has been decided about the 268s yet other than "yeah, we want to buy them"... how can they start building these cars next year when they haven't even tendered a contract for them? 

  10. 1 hour ago, darkstar8983 said:

    I'm not sure how it works during weekend GOs, but couldn't the "extra" (L) train crews that aren't used on the shortened weekend (L) be transferred to the (M)?

    that decision has multiple questions that need to be answered, such as:

    1: How much of the line are you shutting down?

    2: what kind of headway do you want to run on the section that is running?

    3: what kind of turnback procedure are you using?

    two weeks ago I did the J shortline to Hewes street on a Sunday. They had the full crew roster on hand, even though the line was short 7 stations and the Williamsburg Bridge. 

     

    If they try to keep the L to a close to normal headway (and remember, on the weekends, the L still runs a near 4-5 minute headway until well into the evening.), the line would probably still require as many of it's crews as possible. 

  11. I think they did it once, and only once, because circumstances warranted it... BUT... That was a specific situation that isn't present here. Longer we make the line, the more personel we need. We're already going to need a conductor for every train operator who already works the M on the weekends during the day on weekends, but we're also going to need complete extra crews. We're going to need a dispatcher at 57/6...

     

     a LOT of people seem to think "a longer line just means longer trips" without considering all the extra factors. 

  12. 31 minutes ago, Wallyhorse said:

    At least they can do that.  I'd been myself possibly been looking to extend the (M) to 145 that weekend but then I suspect pols would demand the (MTA) do that on weekends full-time. 

    You “suspect” a lot of things… 

    the purpose is to substitute for the L. What good would 145 do? 
     

    to quote Scotty in Star Trek 3:

     

    ”the more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.”

     

    any extension means full length trains which means OPTO has to be cancelled, which means having to find enough conductors to make service.

  13. 15 hours ago, RTOMan said:

    This should NOT be posted here this is internal information i suggest you take it down...

    You have  RTO managers on this site...

    You might want to edit your own post to remove the the URL…

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