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2 hours ago, texassubwayfan555 said:

The  should allow some subway fans to go to the official reveal.

The only way fans are getting into these events is if they also have press credentials and that’s for a reason…

they’re specifically PRESS events.

meanwhile... Crazy weather... I report to Bedford Park Blvd for the D yesterday.

Sunny... Warm... I was sweating a bit...

Get down to Stillwell?

Cold, damp and fog so freaking thick I couldn't see the Parachute Jump at all and could barely make out the Wonder Wheel...

On 10/25/2022 at 7:52 PM, LGA Link N Train said:

Is FASTRACK still a thing or no?

yes. just not as often. We had it on sixth avenue a few weeks back...

NOT a fun experience

The SMEEs don’t have dynamic brakes.

the technology wasn’t included in the fleet until the NTT design was launched.

They are working on getting the 179s CBTC compatible.

20 hours ago, TMC said:

The whole “it was built to be interlined” argument is moot for several reasons. De-Interlining doesn’t necessarily mean that every branch is receiving an insane amount of TPH. It just removes reverse-branching so that every pair of tracks in the core corresponds with 1 or 2 other pairs of tracks elsewhere. Most branches can handle at least 15 TPH with their current termini, given current short-turn locations. There are only a few cases in which some lines need serious capacity improvements for the project to work, but those also happen to include more capital works for de-interlining itself to happen (*cough* IRT *cough*). The system was designed to be interlined back then, and it worked, because there were more trunk lines to divide capacity onto, along with Els using line-of-sight (from my knowledge) which afforded higher capacity. Now that we have less trunk lines, and slightly more modern signaling, interlining doesn’t really work as well as it did back then. 

I don’t see ridership as a huge concern either. The point is to retain and grow ridership, but that doesn’t necessarily mean appeasing them. They now have a 2 seat ride? So what? No sane person will drive or stop riding the subway because they suddenly have to transfer during their commute. This idea that ridership would drop as a result of de-interlining is insane, as people are generally drawn to higher frequency and reliability.

Also, once CBTC, and eventually ATO, then potentially driverless takes over, which it should in the very far future, good luck running a legacy interlined system.

Deinterlinging leads to more transfers and less service, specifically because the terminal capacity is not set up to deal with one corridor having only one line. WHICH WILL RSULT IN LOSS OF RIDERSHIP because people are NOT drawn to high frequency and reliability, they are drawn to convenience.

It's the same mental triggers that cause items to be priced at $19.99 instead of $20.

If their one seat ride switches to two seats, they will seek other means to travel, because they will perceive their trip as now being longer. And it will be, because the line's capacity is set by the teriminals and with the exception of 179... they just can't handle it. 

Also happen to live on a live you pro-de-interliners love to give the short end of the stick to, so excuse me for not being on board with this nonsense. 

The purpose is to make people feel safer. Subway crime is not actually as high as it was in the past, it’s just drawing a lot more attention. 

Making up for the lack of downtime the line had over the summer.

The 211s are still listed as being tested on the Sea Beach the next three weekends on E3-4 according to the GOs.

the basic trade off is mechanical complexity. A 10 car train of single cars needs 20 control stands and 40 Door controls. A 10 car R160 set has only 8 MDCs and 4 control stands. 

Basically a once a day toll to enter Manhattan south of 59th street, to encourage people to take public transit. The collected money would be used to fund transit improvements.

London has had one for years now.

DCAS sent my reinstatement letter in the mail is such a crumpled up mess it was amazing it got to me in the first place. Not updating it is par for the course with them.

There is currently no problem with lacking spare trains… because there aren’t enough people available to run them. 

We’re still short hundreds of train operators and conductors. Hell, the current conductor’s list will be used at least until 2024, 8 years after the test was given. Just imagine that… like applying for a job on your first day of high school and starting the day you graduate college.

Saw her today. Half the pilot train is in the inspection barn at Coney Island and the other half is parked outside on the west side of the building. As I was passing on the N both times I could not see numbers.

12 hours ago, texassubwayfan555 said:

Wow, I never knew that. Also, there used to be ceiling fans in subway trains?

We also had the C types, which are closer to the "Gangway" trains the 211Ts will be. They were rebuilt El cars.

The D Types and other cars of it's era were articulated. That round spot is actually resting on the motor truck, taking the weight of both sides

2 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

There are a ton of R32’s in Concourse Yard with the number plates & logos ripped off…

it’s a bad idea, I’m telling you…keep those cars in storage until the 211’s are in.

The have not been training new hires on the older SMEES. I don’t even know what a Drum switch looks like, let alone how to set one.

keeping them just doesn’t make sense when you run the risk of having a crew that doesn’t know how to run them.

5 hours ago, texassubwayfan555 said:

I wonder what the buyer plans to do with it. Also about the the Redbirds, why were none preserved like some of the other retired trains?

Not only are they still around… we’re still using them all the time. More than half of the R33WFs are still in service as work motors, for example.

10 hours ago, Wallyhorse said:

Then they need to figure out a way to stop laying up those trains on the express tracks and find other places for them in case a situation like what happened here came out that would have prevented a shutdown.  

…don’t you think of there was a way to do that… we would have done it a long time ago…?

this isn’t just an overnight deal, ether. Unless there is a GO, then those spots are used over the weekend as well. Train parked in a spot on D3 or D4 tracks on Friday night might stay there till Monday 

Our literal only immediate option would be to run full weekday service all the time. And with our current crew situation… that is impossible. Never mind a waste of resources and every other reason we would not do that.

no.

Reason 1: the other tracks have laid up trains on them.

Reason 2: the only switch to send a Jamaica bound train onto the Manhattan bound express track is back at Roosvelt.

Reason 3: Just because it's CBTC does not mean such a reverse move is even possible even if the other tracks weren't blocked. The wayside signals are still in place in many locations and they would interfere with this move against the normal flow of traffic. 

Once again you have developed a hyper fixation for an answer you came up with and won’t listen to us when we tell you that’s not how the world works…

Sure, the MTA is is expecting a lot of people to possibly ask for the day off… but here’s the thing… they are not guaranteed it.

At all.

Veterans Day is a normal schedule for us. 

10 hours ago, Wallyhorse said:

Would not surprise me.  Friday 11/11 is Veterans Day (mainly a school holiday) and I'm sure some staff who have kids had already asked for that day and the weekend off to do mini-vacations to take advantage of that.

no they have not because they can not.

No, seriously. You ask for your days off three weeks in advance, and for Veterans day, that's NEXT week. 

I know one of the weekends coming up is a promotional test and a lot of the TOs I was talking to a week ago were taking it or worried too many crews would be short handed. Last Saturday I was working the N shuttle in Queens, and many of the TOs hade their noses in study material when not out on a run down to QBP.

I could get more details for you guys but they don’t tell us this stuff that far in advance.

If I had to hazard a guess, one job is piggybacking on the other.

That’s what it’s supposed to sound like. You do have metal pressing against metal, after all.
 

6 hours ago, texassubwayfan555 said:

I know this is unrelated to the current topic, but why are the friction brakes on the NTTs so bad? You know a train with dead motor is coming from a mile away due to the insane brake screech. Are the friction brakes just not maintained well?

Define bad. A bad brake is one that doesn't work...

The noise is normal. 

They are going to need to record 90% of the 211S’s announcements from scratch.

they could make them just about anything.