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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.

The Canarsie and Flushing Lines would like a word about that…

Yes. Kew to 50th or wherever you enter or leave.

Can we not turn a serious conversation about a construction project into “service fantasy thread #7345217” that is probably the most annoying thing people do around here. Feels like every single thread some armchair with too much free time has to try to suggest a “better” way to do something… and I keep saying in this thread it’s unnecessary, we already have plans in place for such work in our back pockets for when we need it… and nobody listens to me…

again, a protentional 53rd street shut down is NOT the same level of work. We really don't need to worry about the M in these circumstances. what they are doing in 63rd, in case none of you have paid a visit, is completely ripping out the concrete tunnel floor down to the bare steel that separates the subway and LIRR levels. this is to replace the direct fixation track (IIRC also known as "Type 8" track) with the more common and easier to work on "Type 2 modified", the kind you see on most of the IND, with the fixed half ties in the concrete, and occasional full cross ties. The 53rd street tunnel is "type 2" as originally built, so the work it would need would be simple rail replacement, which will not require heavy construction for months on end. This could easily be done weekends and overnights. Or, if they want it done super quick, they just cut the M back to Essex/Chambers again, the way they used to do for that annual weeklong closure that was often done between Christmas and New years.

Like I said before, the last bastion of MetroCard will probably be our employee EPIC passes. Not only are they how we get into the system to go to work, they’re how we clock in and out on the Kronos time-clocks and how we access certain secure locations.

TIL: the literal translation of the Japanese title for "The Taking of Pelham 123" "subway panic: subway Clash 123"

it's kinda already started: Es are running to whitehall Street, suspending the W. Fs are southbound on the Crosstown line. With the J and M GO tonight, life is going to get interesting on the LES tonight.

new wheel detector system

And there be more nonsense on the horizon that your were able to avoid…

The R262s are first on the docket after the R211s are done. nothing has been decided about the 268s yet other than "yeah, we want to buy them"... how can they start building these cars next year when they haven't even tendered a contract for them?

They ordered them "1 train for 1 train". Complete replacement, no need for option orders.

that decision has multiple questions that need to be answered, such as: 1: How much of the line are you shutting down? 2: what kind of headway do you want to run on the section that is running? 3: what kind of turnback procedure are you using? two weeks ago I did the J shortline to Hewes street on a Sunday. They had the full crew roster on hand, even though the line was short 7 stations and the Williamsburg Bridge. If they try to keep the L to a close to normal headway (and remember, on the weekends, the L still runs a near 4-5 minute headway until well into the evening.), the line would probably still require as many of it's crews as possible.

I think they did it once, and only once, because circumstances warranted it... BUT... That was a specific situation that isn't present here. Longer we make the line, the more personel we need. We're already going to need a conductor for every train operator who already works the M on the weekends during the day on weekends, but we're also going to need complete extra crews. We're going to need a dispatcher at 57/6... a LOT of people seem to think "a longer line just means longer trips" without considering all the extra factors.

You “suspect” a lot of things… the purpose is to substitute for the L. What good would 145 do? to quote Scotty in Star Trek 3: ”the more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.” any extension means full length trains which means OPTO has to be cancelled, which means having to find enough conductors to make service.

Last weekend in March, no L service 8th Avenue to Lorimer. M to 57/6th on the weekends. If the tunnel was on time this could have been an M to 96/2nd weekend instead.

You might want to edit your own post to remove the the URL…

53rd street getting a total shutdown would be, like, a week at best. They are not ripping out the entire tunnel floor like they are for 63rd street, or the work done on the Archer Avenue Line’s two levels a few years ago. this theoretical project would not be anywhere near the headache some people seem to think it would be

Like I said, we’ve done that in the past, straight up closing the plaza at night, but that was weekend work. then again, we don’t need to do the same level of work in 53rd street we’re doing in 63rd. This is completely replacing the direct fixation track with “type 2” track.

So... there is a new speed control system installed at Essex Street and that has led to increased run times on the J of at least 2 to 3 minutes. Add to that the F GO that has it on the Cranberry Tube... here I am pulling into Fulton Street southbound, already late, and facing a wall of passengers who got lost because they just saw the sign on the stairs and didn't read the words "Broad Street" next to it. Me: (yelling out the window as I open up) "Broad Street train! Broad Street Next and last" Computer: as the doors open. "This a Broad Street bound J train, the next and last stop is... Broad Street" Passenger at my window "Does this go to Delancy?" Me (explains what they need to do to get to the northbound platform) person walks away... another person, standing right next to them the whole time "So... this doesn't go to Delancy?" How did people survive with the marker light system? really? how?

That would be thrown out automatically…

Just remember the office moved last week to a different address, 149 Pierrepont Street.

Has it ever occurred to anyone that if it was reasonable to connect them, they would have built it? thing is, something like that… gonna be really labor intensive and expensive. they would have to be regularly using it to make it worth while. a connection like that, on the off chance it’s needed one day? that doesn’t make good fiscal sense. Unless you plant to try to squeeze an 8th-SAS line in, it’s not going to be worth it. Send the E via 6th and be done with it.

I am literally sitting on her right now going home from work… after riding it to work this afternoon.