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Aside from restoring the row, there is other work nessisary. in my ideal version of the LIRR option; the Railroad takes one track off the IND, the current northbound track. new platforms are built on the old southbound express track at all three stations (these would be single direction at Howard Beach and North Conduit, and both directions at the racetrack. a new track is built on the outside of the existing north bound platform at Howard Beach to convert it into an island platform. This way one train can arrive and then another immediately depart over the single track section. any subway connection would be probably better off if it avoided the QBL all together, instead operating through queens as part of a relief line. follow the old RBB tracks all the way to woodside, and their tunnel under the mainline tracks or swung over Queens Blvd, dive under the 7 (with a transfer station) and from ether route, connect with the 63rd Street Line via the stub tunnels at Queensbridge. Cross the river along side the F, but then, maybe, swing down the SAS instead of having to squeeze onto one of the existing lines.

Because getting to Chuck E. Cheese is that important... The existing West Shore Branch ROW passes right next to the mall. That seems to be a touch on the weak justification side.

They need to ether create the bus lanes or get rid of the bike lane (or both). Having the buses stuck on the single file service road lane is stupid. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve seen the buses, along with cars, have to enter the bike lane space to get around a blockage that would otherwise cause a mile long traffic jam.

Oh dear God... https://store.steampowered.com/app/1121910/I_Love_You_Colonel_Sanders_A_Finger_Lickin_Good_Dating_Simulator/

and looking at Stadium Ave, it's actually quite wide. Wider than some of the main roads by me.... so that's two things the community have said about it that are false...

Oh, really... funny, that's not what I see on google street view. the only section of Stadium without a sidewalk is the short section at the south end, where the bus would have transition to Dean Ave As a matter of fact, the area feels kind of familiar. Reminds me of the back sections of Maspeth and Middle Village, near Juniper Valley Park. know what they have? Buses running through even narrower streets at much higher frequencies. Ever ride the Q38 along Penelope Ave? ho boy...

(Looks over neighborhood on google maps) parking deprived? looks to me like almost every house ether has a driveway or room for one. blocks upon blocks of standalone houses. Come to my neck of the woods, three to four story walk ups with buses on “residential” streets. Never mind the way the el cuts through.

Ok then... so where do you suggest the MTA get the roughly several hundred million dollars, if not more this program would take from fare box recovery ratio every year? CUNY, by itself, has roughly 250,000 students. Now, not all of them are full time, but add on SUNY and all the private colleges, it could easily be that many full time students across the city. And at that total, we’re looking at about $130 million in lost revenue a year. they tax items that have nothing to do with the MTA to held fund it. They are putting in congestion charges to try to keep the agency afloat... and suddenly we’re talking about blowing another hole in the operating budget. Now, unlike most of society, I still see compromise as the core of democracy, so... the pass is $100 for the school year. they still get a discount, and less of the cost burden is passed to those of us who actually pay our fares...

$1.50... for an entire.... Are you kidding me? Sure... I can see a discounted unlimited... but $1.50... less than the cost of one single ride and EVERYONE getS free transportation for three months? Yeah, there is no way that could be abused. Absolutely no one will sign up for an online course and then show up and say “Well, I am a student... so here’s $1.50, now give me my free rides.” there is a reason on why there are rules applied to the student cards. I went to catholic school, so I didn’t have certain public holidays off and had to prove why I was using my student card on those days.

OMNY passes won't be ready for a few years. Stick with MetroCard. Wally... That crossover... is MAYBE 0.001% total usage. and that's being generous, I might have left off a lot of zeros there. If you replaced SEPTA with NJT in your argument, that would be a logical statement. or SEPTA and NJT working together. But no. You said "we should have the same system in two different cities a hundred miles apart whose transit services are not directly connected." Once again, you have taken the tiny, pointless target and suddenly decided that such a massive decision must be made based around their benefit. "College students"? Really? that's the justification you're going for? Or is that crossover... YOU... and you can't be bothered to carry around two cards. Nevermind the very idea of OMNY is you shouldn't need a card in the first place.

technically speaking, yard storage capacity is not as big a factor as it might seem on the subway when compared to other systems. The MTA can easily get away with more trains than the yards could possibly store all at once, since under ideal circumstances, there will always be trains out running.

I mean, I want him to try to explain why he thought it was a good idea to stick the M on the QB express. i already have made it known I’m not a fan of having 480’ trains on that section of track, why is it the express...?

This... This is terrible. improves user experience? did you even LOOK at the track maps when you made this? You have the N as express via lower Manhattan and the locals on the bridge. You can't do that. Also Astoria called, they want their express back, and Bay Ridge is on hold, they're upset you're cutting the late night R back to 36th street. We have enough people complaining about the R as it is, don't try to put out the fire with gasoline... Similar problem with terminating the 3 at Utica, The terminating trains would be crossing in front of the 4's trying to get up onto the Livonia El. You can't lock an X-over to the diverging position in service, you loose at least 25 to 30% of your capacity doing that. You have cut off western Queens from the sixth avenue line without doubling back somewhere. Can't do that ether. The V and the orange M were created for a reason. you're ram rodding all service down the 8th avenue line for no justifiable reason. You add unnecessary service variants and yet say it's "less complex"? You require more transfers to get places that would otherwise be straight shots.

that.... I... Brain.exe has preformed a illegal operation and will be shut down..... I actually feel dumber having read that article. I can just feel the IQ points dropping like flies. HOW on God's green Earth can he make that kind of justification? or does the phrase "Dillons' Rule" mean nothing to that man... The judge is wearing his biases on his sleeve. he should be removed from this case.

I think some phones require a touch of set up to work right. There was a option I had to select on my phone.

Separate. it’s even technically it’s own site. Omny.info Having a separate app is a touch more user friendly. How many people use MetroCard every day on non-MTA services? at some point they’re going to have to come to a decision on adopting OMNY, and having a separate app would help.

Fitbit Pay hops on the bandwagon at last second. https://investor.fitbit.com/press/press-releases/press-release-details/2019/Fitbit-Users-Can-Now-Use-Fitbit-Pay-at-Seven-Major-Transit-Systems-Around-the-World/default.aspx

Mastercard to give people who use their cards for OMNY refunds of their fares on Fridays in June and July https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/consumers/offers-promotions/fareback-fridays-promotion.html

The OP is assuming they even can. bankruptcy doesn’t solve the MTA’s problem anyway. It wouldn’t make thier funding consistent. What they need is a dedicated funding lockbox, money that can’t be taken away by the state. did that ski place ever pay the MTA back for those snow makers?

Yep. https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/transportation/metro-cards

I just got the weirdest image in my head... “Here Kia... here boy... that’s a good hatchback...”

Getting between my high school (East Elmherst) and home (Ridgewood) was not the most straight forward trip due to Queens being Queens. I would often have to skip the bus and walk the 6 long blocks (roughly 4/5th of a mile up hill) to the subway, because I only ever had the 3 trip card. it didn’t help that the bus between School and the train was the Q47 before it was merged with the Q45 (actually, most of my time there was still Triboro Coach, MTA bus only took over the February of my senior year), and it had the longest headway’s imaginable. (IDEAL route Q58<->R/V*<->Q47) *again, this was the mid 2000s if I had a four trip card it would have helped out a lot more, but I wasn’t considered far enough for it.

The problem is multi lateral. You have a governor and a mayor who are each expecting the other to fix the problems. It's like they're on a sinking ship, and it takes two people to lower the lifeboat. They each expect the other to do the lowering and we're all going to drown because of it... You have downstate politicians who only want to be able to claim successes and cut ribbons. I remember on city council member complaining about the not ADA accesible raised rear section of the Nova artics on the M15SBS when it launched (ignoring the fact the engine and fuel take and drive train need to go SOMEWHERE) You have union leadership who wants every penny from the MTA's coffers and will not take accountability for it's members actions. (If I have to listen to Samuelson play the victim card again with this whole time keeping issue, I'm going to hurl. We all know there are people out there who are taking advantage of the system. It has to be enough of a problem if the feds have stepped in...) You have upstate politicians who see the MTA as a piggy bank. IE, those snow makers. and you have disability advocates who are not architects and engineers, not realizing just what goes into building an elevator. take a look at the process to make Copley station in Boston accessible. They ran head long into the preservationist movement who sought to protect the Old South Church and the main Boston Library building. Forest Avenue on the M, the nearest stop to my house, would require a complete redesign of the mezzanine to allow for an elevator, or a reopening of the demolished south Mezzanine.

can't wait to see what will happen if they put in the order for the dual mode Chargers Siemens mentioned a few years back.