Kamen Rider

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”

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. 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.

The operations planning people want route consistency as much as reasonably possible. The N running via the bridge during the day vs the tunnel at night does not add new stops, it’s effectively just running on an express shortcut. move the F back and forth between 63rd street and 53rd (unless you expand M service which is a whole other can of worms) every day is not something they condone at this time, especially at this time while CBTC East work is still ongoing. i mean, it took the better part of 60 years for someone to say “you know, maybe the M should at least go to Essex street on the weekend at very least”*, sending it back to Queens is going to take a lot of justification to get people to agree with the idea. (*I still complain openly that the Myrtle el, which for the record is my home line, is the only two transfer to midtown zone at night, but that’s a rant for another day)

the CBTC project is going to be going on for a while, so they're writing it into the work program.

Two years ago.

My sleep tests were more of a formality. Doctor took one look at my throat and said it was narrow, and basically diagnosed me right then and there.

Would like to clarify we call it posting because you are not “Shadowing” them, you’re the one expected to do the brunt of the work. I took two students a couple days apart, little over a week ago. And out of those two day, I did the doors only once, and that was to show that one student what it looks like once you get comfortable with your operations.

The R142s are only about halfway through their useful lives… if we needed parts we would order them. it’s the R46s that may need to be canibalozed for spare parts and they are doing it right now for the SIR’s R44s.

Same way you run bi-directionally on any single track line… one at a time. i got caught up in a similar event once, though we had use of G2 track, so here we are leaving Ditmars and having to wrong rail down to Queensboro Plaza. Even had direct permission to open up without having to acknowledge my board.

So… anyway… 4060/69 are back together and out and about. Saw them across from my train at high street.

If anything he’s making him sound like the second coming of Dr. Beeching

Another important lesson for everyone: for the conductors, there are some train operators who are always in a hurry to get through their trip. If you delay even slightly, they’ll push the door warning button. They’ll keep giving you two, not caring why you might be held up. If you have a legitimate issue., if you feel safety is at risk, remember, safety FIRST. I had one such operator recently. Someone was throwing things out of the train onto the platform. Ranging from empty food take out… TO A USED HYPODERMIC NEEDLE… yes, Oscar the grouch here was causing a bio-hazard. I basically put it like this to them at the terminal… You do YOUR job… and I’ll do mine. And my job is SAFETY. for the new TOs, recognize that each individual station stop is a unique event. No two are the same. If it is taking your partner longer to close down, don’t automatically assume it’s laziness or incompetence and start being a jerk towards them. like today… I’m a little under the weather. I’m getting over a cold. I’m not going to be 110%. I might be having a sneezing fit back there. You’re where you need to be. You are getting paid. Rushing only results in mistakes.

Which we don’t know… so… And I can go through great lengths to explain why the bottle of ketchup in your refrigerator is secretly plotting to empty your savings, burn down your house and flee to Canada… just because you say something is fact doesn’t make it fact unless you have the evidence to back it up. We don’t know you. You’ve been here a week. Your word isn’t worth anything. i work for transit (still waiting for my profile badge, guys, I asked weeks ago). I have been here for years. These guys know me and know that I know what I’m talking about. That level of trust is something that is earned. Not given out to everyone who walks in the door. that being said… the 179s are not a 160 option order… if they were… they would still be 160s.

Tell me you’ve never been to Forest Hills without telling me you’ve never been to Forest Hills… if anywhere needs help, it’s Bowery.

No, because once the train was loaded up at 86th street, it ran non-stop to 23rd to drop them off. We do this every year for the 69th after the parade. used to be on the Lexington line before the SAS opened. It's legitimately listed in the system as the "Troop Train".

considering that's one of the barn tracks she's on, yeah, safe to say nothing to worry about.

His source is basically “dude, trust me”… which is effectively also a more appropriate way to read his user name given how cynical this place often gets.

B2 seems to have not been activated yet. bassicly, CBTC is one way

The 1662 we got was pretty close to the original pitch of about 1700 cars. If there was going to be another option, it probably would not have been that large, a bit like the order nicknamed at the time “R142S”, an extra 8 trains of R142A ordered in 2003, car numbers 7731 through 7810. And the 160 contract was still the largest rapid transit car order in history when it was completed. the R179s were then what the R268s are now… pie in the sky “shakes the magic 8 ball and gets ‘ask again later” speculation… and that was within transit itself. When I worked at the Transit Museum in 2006, I remember being sent upstairs to 130 Livingston to pick up the mail (not one of my normal duties back then, but I am mostly a people pleaser when I’m in a good mood and they asked nicely) and a TV screen in the lobby talking about the future R179 order… I think might have been a “Transit Transit” episode or it could have been some internal company video. and remember, this was when the 160s were brand new.

more than any other issue with that suggestion... no one is going to use that "just" for emergencies. The emergency gates at stations are just for emergency use and people plow right through them to exit all the time because they're lazy.

No points for guessing who was trying to shuffle her way up 6th Avenue on a Mikey in the middle of all that...

Considering the aggressor also had a bladed object of some kind, he was not out of the woods completely. also, consider this… if he didn’t fire, what was the possibility of the aggressor taking the gun back and using it and not just on his target..? that is part of the legal considerations they make. plus, this case would need to go before a grand jury to actually indict and if they attempted to charge the shooter, I think a lot of people might let him off the hook.