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Same Reason they stopped painting the trains. Money... time,,, resources... If you think of a question of "why didn't the MTA do (insert thing here" Money is the answer about 90% of the time. the other roughly 10% is because someone else stopped them. Ether the politicians or the unions. We're kinda trying our damnedest to get a tracking system up and running in the environment we have to work with. Put it this way... in roughly two weeks... my grandmother will celebrate her 95th birthday... And we're still dealing with hardware built around the same time...

The SIRTOA cars were never formed into fixed sets like their subway counterparts. You could theoretically couple them together in any order and length that would fit. They even experimented with 5 car trains not that long ago.

… dude… having actually worked the L… this is a none starter. We MUST keep the headway the way it is, if not make the headway even smaller. We don’t “tough it out”.

one step at a time.

I find it to be all the damn time from my experience.

Just make sure the jobs you bid on are ones you know you can handle. Don’t bid on something that’s going to be sending you to the Rockaways constantly if you live in, say, New Jersey. though ironically, I keep getting my jobs as if I got XL. Two weeks I was constantly on 6th Avenue, now I’m going on my 6th working day in a row on the Broadway local… with a 7th tomorrow.

I’m sorry… to what source do you owe your response? My source is Rule 20(d) of the MTA Rules and Regulations, edition June 2016, and found on the rule book’s page 21, which emphatically states that radio code 12-9 is for “CUSTOMER UNDER TRAIN”

And… here it is… already po’ed as it takes away the B38 branch that runs up towards my house…

They said It will be released this afternoon, so maybe we should all just go grab a sandwich and come back in a hour or so instead of mashing refresh a million times over…

They are doing the press conference right now.

Excuse me…? I’m sorry, but last time I checked we can do everyone you can…

and the fact 207 yard is closed due to a GO.

You know... in the past, your ideas never made sense. Now that I am actually on the other side of the mirror now... they make even less sense. 1: A train can't turn at Chambers Street coming from the south. 2: The GO has taken the tunnel out for those three weekends. 3: on the first of those weekends the Willy B is closed as well.

… they have gotten REALLY lax on the rules for relaying trains… it might not make a difference, they might just let people stay on as the train runs around to the other side.

That brings up liabilities the legal department is not going to be comfortable with.

Painting the trains costs money. Also the older cars needed to be painted to prevent them from rusting. Stainless Steel doesn't require that. So... in the long run, they are saving a massive pile of money by not painting them.

Dude… this is another one of your patented “solutions in search of a problem”

different cab layout, different controls, new equipment the other new techs don't have (translation, new things to break on us) For example, CCTV, both internal and external, comes as standard. So theoretically speaking, I can see the front and the back of the train to know if I'm in the station if something were to happen to my board. you can see just about the center of the image the CCTV feeds.

For the most part the training is going to be a lot more about the technical issues we will encounter, what we can and can't fix ourselves. Like for me, I was constantly drilled on dealing with door faults. Or isolating a car. The 211Ts are going to be the biggest change in our procedures and operations since the introduction of the NTT series. To the point I've taken to calling the 211s the first "XTTs" "neXt Technology Trains"

…1, we don’t do double letters anymore. 2: it’s an IND line 3: how much service are you shoving down it? 4: that belongs in a fantasy thread. 5: you responded to a post from a decade ago!

Yeah, so can we not jump to conclusions…? The 32s had to be retired. Let’s just accept that and move on. Like I said, they stopped training people on them long before I started. Having a standardized set up is just better. I only have to walk across the cab to change which side I am opening up. No jumping from car to car, having to push past people to get to the other cab, amongst other things saving me and you all time.

1: New York invented the concept with the D-types, it’s just after unification under the city they went with the IND’s design standards. 2: MTR is a smaller system who gets extra funding from being a real estate developer and being able to bid out to operate transit systems in other cities. For example, they are the contracted operator of London’s Elizabeth line. It’s also a publicly traded company. You can be shares in the MTR. 3: going back to the basic issue, PSDs are going to be no go so long as there is not a single door standard on the system and even then they must be able to take into account different train lengths.

they're not articulated, nor would they be the first...

@texassubwayfan555 what you're thinking is a 12-9 isn't a 12-9. Specifically, "12-9" is the radio code for person UNDER the train. getting struck by a train isn't inherently a 12-9 situation. and a person can and do survive being under the train so long as they're in the right spot.

When that 12-9 at Jackson Heights over the cell phone happened, I was working the J. The minute it became clear the Queens Corridor was no-go, they sent Ms to chambers or turned them on J3-4 at Essex. I was only delayed a few minutes at best. conversely, if something has gone wrong on the BMT side, the M can be turned at 2nd Ave. so, honestly, the J is not as dependent on the rest of the system… also I firmly believe that the Gold Street/Dekalb interlocking complex is the true lynchpin of the B division.