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Kamen Rider

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  1. Basically an image of the platform, the car you are in is highlighted and it shows where every exit is and if that route leads to transfers.
  2. I mean, the 211Ts are special. As I have repeated and will continue to repeat thill I’m blue in the face and have tapped a hole in my phone screen: they’re true prototypes. They are like the R110/R130/R131 program. You want to evaluate how the train behaves, how the people react to it, and to do that, you need to run them. you run them every chance you get. If the brakes charge up, if the traction motors work, and if the darn thing is not on fire, send it out. You short handed and need to layup some trains? Lay someone else up, leave the Ts out there. again, this isn’t just about the mechanics, but about the ridership. The people. How do they react to them. Do they use the gangways without a second thought. Do they like this idea?
  3. Which creates a problem with any time we use 145 lower for turning the C or shortlineing the D. which given the whole situation with the concourse line… is not currently feasible.
  4. that's a lot more switching moves than we are comfortable with, more so since everyone is going to be crossing in front of everyone else... might have to staff West 4th tower every weekend for this... and we only just put it in remote mode a few years ago when 34 Master came online.
  5. Finally got to see one of the sets in service. It was next to the M train I was working in the junction south of West 4th.
  6. I mean, when that happens you are still supposed to report to your original starting location at the time you’re supposed to be there. unless they call you directly and tell you to head somewhere else.
  7. Except there is the trade off that the physical maps can’t break. The F shuttle was supposed to be over and done with by now after all. the greater justification for going to onboard digital maps would be to be able to show information in real time. last night there was an emergency GO that sent the southbound Fs via crosstown and the southbound E’s to Herald Square via Broadway. it was so last second, I was on the A last night and I did not knowing anything about it. being able to change on the fly is the threshold I set for completely abandoning paper maps on the trains.
  8. I will add to that don't even automatically trust the assignment sheets; they have accidently left people off once in a while.
  9. that should read 4135/39... my fat fingers strike again...
  10. the wayfinding signage is supposed to be on the "A"s as well, and I have seen it active on 4135/59
  11. You know… I think we should just rebrand this place as “TransitAssumptions.com” because that seems to be quite the hobby around here. everyone gets an assumption into their heads, based on little to no evidence, and then defends it like their life depends on it. to the point when my little employee ass says “no, that’s wrong”, people will freaking double down on their argument…
  12. The R211T, from a mechanical standpoint, are identical to their “A” counterparts. the SIR cars do have one difference, having to use the SIR’s cab signal system instead of CBTC hardware. there is nothing a 30 day test would uncover that the A tests didn’t already do.
  13. Most of everything the 30 day testing would test with these cars was stuff already cleared with the 211As. as I’ve been saying, as prototypes, in theory, everything with them is a test, and as some people have said, they seemed to have pasted the first test, passengers seem to like them.
  14. that's not something the crew can control. It's just not part of the programing on the 211As at the moment.
  15. They are expecting a large exodus of manpower in the not too distant future. 20 years ago they supposedly went on a hiring spree, and a lot of employees are approaching the point where they can retire. They needed that next test to have already been given and graded by this point, not delayed. I am going to warn you now, some of you who are still hoping to be hired, they may stick you someplace you don’t want to be. I was lucky, I went from normal extra extra to Extra List without much of an issue. You might not be so lucky. be prepared to find yourself as a flagger, for example. they can and will draft people based on the needs of the system. Even on higher ranks. Some TSSs are drafted into being School Car Instructors, for example.
  16. I keep forgetting Hudson Rail Link is a thing… maybe because it’s not on the bus maps.
  17. little tip... that sort of thing does not translate well to text...
  18. nether, unfortunately. Just a plain old Con Ed facility. https://a836-acris.nyc.gov/DS/DocumentSearch/DocumentImageView?doc_id=FT_1290008684629
  19. It’s almost as if the Key card roll out wasn’t interrupted by a global pandemic…
  20. Have you or anyone else been following the roll out of other systems fare media the way we’ve been following this one? that being said, the MetroCard hardware will continue to be used until they get around to giving employees passes using OMNY as a base. Cause, you know, we need to be able to get in to go to work and all…
  21. He should also keep an eye on his own people... As one of my favorite classic TV shows taught me... a leak like that could just as easily come from the top as it can from the bottom.
  22. And it has now been added. M to Chambers Street for Presidents Day week (Tuesday through Friday)
  23. I'm not saying to rely on it, I'm saying "that's what it looks like"
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