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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.

8 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

Open up the covers to the end door switch in each car and put an emergency box over it saying USE ONLY IN CASE OF EMERGENCY.

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. 

27 minutes ago, RTOMan said:

Maybe they'll have 63rd street finished.. Finally...

That 12-9 at Lex ave NB totally wrecked the   and   yesterday evening...

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.

So, at this point, they have still not added any extension to the GO to the planned service changes page… and infact have added another GO.

Northbound platform at Northern Blvd will be closed for accessibility work starting April 8th… and the weekday posts specifically mention the M…

not a stand your ground state, but one where self-defense is an accepted defense. 

8 hours ago, BelieveinMe said:

Flipping the F and M East River crossing would make sense here.

No, for reason I laid out months ago, it is not a good idea.

Unless the M becomes a 24/7 full length line, the F will have to return to 63rd street every evening. The last timetabled M out of 71st is about 8:30.

the other issue is you’re cutting the QB locals off from the G without transferring multiple times.

as it is, the E and F do not fit into the 53rd street tube at full capacity. They had to cut back on some service to compensate.

How it that strange? There are 14 southbound 5 trips that terminate at Utica, along with 11 northbound trips that put in there.

Strangely for me, they only changed my RDOs once, and that was only for the week before a pick. I was TF my first pick out, working PMs.

they moved me to FS for a week, still PMs, before the second pick started and I was SS Midnights. But come Pick 3… I was so high on the XX list I was SS AMs.

They never changed my tours.

and now I’m an XL so they can’t. 

I had 4170/79 on a southbound trip to Far Rockaway last night. Her electronics were a mess. North motor end sign wasn’t working, meanwhile that set’s other end sign on the conductors position was stuck on, so a northbound conductor had a big, bright LED A in their face.

south half has the “exit this side” message, north half did not have ether version, but both had the correct side doors light up as we entered the stations.

The problem is, no matter how strong the punishment, people will still do something. In many states, murder still carries the death penalty… and yet there are still murders.

simply saying “oh, if the penalty is harsh, they won’t do it”… has never been realistic.

what has been found to work is to remove the reason for the action. e.g.: social media sites removing surfing videos. Media not giving them the attention they crave. I mean, how many of these idiots who don’t get killed are bragging they made the news…?

that’s not going to stop all of them, but it’s going to have an effect on surfing.

basically, you fix the problem by being proactive, not reactive.

9 hours ago, Calvin said:

I wonder how daylight savings affect the timing on the trains. If it's noted departure for 1:59 AM at Coney Island for the , for example, but shows on the clock next minute as 3:00 AM, does the trip get cancelled or pushed back?

Like I said, this is all planned out in advance. In the case of your example, the  has been running only between Stillwell and Prospect Park this weekend. The last train before the time change was scheduled to be at 1:41 AM (EST), arriving at Prospect at 3:06 AM (EDT).
 

If there had been a 1:59, and it had been delayed… it would still be a 1:59, even if it left after the time change, because 0159 was its assigned call sign. It’s at the discretion of the terminal dispatchers if a train gets a different one or uses the one it already had.

Lets say I’m going to be on the 1234 A 207 to Lefferts.

if my train needs to leave a few minutes early, I am still the 1234, I just have taken a “push”

if the train is delayed by a few minutes, I am still the 1234; just a “Late 1234”…

if the train is REALLY delayed, they might change the call sign, or it might be delayed enough I end up taking the next interval.

Distinct supplemental schedules. It’s a line by line, job by job thing as to who might gain or lose a trip.

more the issue is “falling back”, since that can actually result in two trains with the same call sign out and about. Basically if control or the tower need to talk to one of the two, it’s up to them to make sure it’s the right one. 
 

then again I’m PMs this pick and was home by the time it went down, so…

I am sure he’s probably a nice guy IRL.

all I’m asking is he contain his ideas to the fantasy thread and not try to derail other conversations.

THAT being said…

it looks like the end of the month may be the end of this project, or someone has made a mistake in posting.

the planned service changes page doesn’t show the main GO on ether the F or M after March 30th. The shuttle will be suspended over Easter weekend, probably to tear down all those work walls.

additionally, the M will be rerouted to Chambers Street on Friday the 29th ONLY.

Again, this is a thread about a construction project not on the non-existent merits of messing around with M service. 
 

“But it will help the hospitals”… would it? Maybe… but what about the people you’re taking service away from? You are HURTING more people than you are helping.

”the UES is the most…”

we know… but the Queens Corridor has a higher total population in general and it needs the M back.

you have long been showing a bias to service that affects your old neighborhood. Advocating more stations, even another unnecessary river crossing. Can you please TRY to keep that on the fantasy thread and not fill other threads?

Okay... quite glad this is my RDO.

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 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 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. 

I "stay well in touch" with the goings on at Disney theme parks, despite not having set foot in one in 9 years. I have friends who work there. If I said something and they corrected me about... I'd stop talking. because my past experiences cannot translate into current ones. 

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)

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…

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. 

That is just the motor trying to hold the door open on a grade and not doing a great job of it. You will notice it is ALWAYS being pulled downhill.