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1 hour ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

However Stadium Avenue lacks sidewalks in certain parts (Country Club is one area in the Bronx that resembles more of a suburban area as it is very low density, similar to what you see on Staten Island with all houses and few commercial areas), and it is narrow in parts, so having a bus run through there is not ideal from the community's standpoint.

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.

On ‎8‎/‎29‎/‎2019 at 8:22 AM, Trainmaster5 said:

Since I have to renew my employee/pensioner pass soon how would this OMNY program affect me ? I’m asking here instead of the Crew Room because my wife usually travels with me. I remember that on my last renewal trip the people in the pass unit couldn’t tell me the correct procedure for a retiree to use on an SBS bus. I do have an iPhone with no card enabled. Just asking before I end up embarrassing myself at Atlantic-Barclays. Carry on.

OMNY passes won't be ready for a few years. Stick with MetroCard. 

On ‎9‎/‎2‎/‎2019 at 6:24 PM, Wallyhorse said:

A bit late to this, but as said before, IMO they should have worked with SEPTA to do a joint card that would be valid on all of the  and SEPTA.  There is enough crossover between the two in New York and Philly (and especially with college students who go to school in Philly but are from New York) to have made such worthwhile.  

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?

1 hour ago, Enjineer said:

Such a thing exists? I always thought it was half-fare (bus) or three-trip (full fare)

Yep.

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

18 hours ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

... people assume that I am walking my car...

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. 

27 minutes ago, Lance said:

First off, I hate you for reminding me of that damn song.

can we add a rule to the site where that song is not allowed to be mentioned..?

27 minutes ago, Lance said:

With that said, this ever-growing homeless problem has to be curtailed. It's already fast becoming a quality of life issue for everyone with incidents like the one captured in the opening post happening with growing frequency. Riders shouldn't have to wade through piles of garbage or deal with "passengers" who smell like something worse than death warmed over. Maybe instead of running a campaign that's never going to go anywhere or avoiding the agency until it's time for a photo-op, perhaps our esteemed mayor and governor can actually do something about this before this city becomes San Francisco II.

they only want to do things that are easy. 

Being "progressive" for progressive's sake.

I used to take the L to school in the late 2000s. Nice and quiet.

Then, from 2015 until last year, I was taking it to my job. everyday, without fail, there was a person begging on the train. And some of them actually started DEMANDING we give them money. 

they took the benches away from a small triangle park under the M at Forest because it was attracting them. So the all just plopped on the station stairs.

the two of them have been abject failures as leaders, because they just want to produce flashy results, and can't worry about the long term goals. 

1 hour ago, LTA1992 said:

Also, can we talk about how Roadcruiser literally called R262? His 1,200 number wasn't bad either.

 

Maybe he's a writer for The Simpsons, they seem to be good at guess the future. 

So.. I haven't been around her much... Truth be told... I've been dealing with depression. I got fired from my job at Staples towards the end of last year for reasons that are both stupid and when thinking about it, justified. So I've had time to think and I've thought about a lot of things and thought about what was wrong with my life and honestly... I think I figured out part of my problem. I've been living a lie my whole life...

I'm...

I'm a girl. 

I'm transgender.

I'm the same sarcastic, short tempered ass I've always been.

The difference now is I'm "Miss sarcastic, short tempered ass"

I see two issues with reactivating the line.

the CURES NIMBIES who still won't shut up.

and the whiners trying to understand why it doesn't go to Penn station (had to deal with THAT personally a few times.)

I really don't understand this...

One second people want more interlining, more services going more places.

and then suddenly they want less.

Make up your minds.

That being said, a lot of these ideas still don't take capacity, storage, or dead miles into account.

What use is having the M and F share the same tracks from Broadway-Layfette all the way to Briarwood? you're removing 6th avenue service west of Roosevelt Avenue, the very reason the V was created. Passengers will ether need to backtrack to Roosevelt or transfer at 7th onto already crowded B and D trains.

then again, I'm still opposed to the existence of the Orange M because of it's capacity loss on Queens Blvd and 6th (shorter trains) and 4th avenue (only the R running local) and the fact, regardless of what people who can't do math say, it harmed more than it helped. (22,000 riders were using it for midtown vs 27,000 for Nassau from both ends of Brooklyn.