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Word is the 1 train on the local track was B/O, running under “other than head car operation”.

Next weekend, the tunnel will be out of service completely to begin the switchover to working on the southbound track and running the shuttle on the northbound track. 

Another important reminder for you new hires:

never forget who is the boss here. You are not a lowly cashier at McDonalds. You and your partner are the managers of your train. You do not need to take any shit from the passengers. You do not need to do what they ask if you don’t want to.

if you have a passenger misbehaving and they respond to your request to stop with “go do your job”… remind them that is exactly what you’re doing. The safety and security of your train and its passengers are as much your responsibility as getting the train to the terminal. 

10 hours ago, R32 3838 said:

What's scary is that these morons put their E-bikes in front of the door or the side of the motorman's cab. They always ride the front of the train. I'm surprised the hasn't done anything about it yet. I hope the union has brought this to their attention because these batteries on these e-bikes (most not all) are illegal and not approved because their modified.

I kicked someone off my train back in September for doing that with a full sized E-scooter. He blocked the door from my alternate conductors position into the car.

”it’s electric… I’m allowed to…” he protested as the cops came over

”you’re not allowed to block my cab doors with it and I already asked you to move it and you didn’t. Don’t care what size it is or what it runs on. My train, my decision.”

rule number 1: do not block my escape routes in the event of an emergency.

I spent... six and a half hours on 4070-04/4110-4114 last night. the AAS is borked on the train. You can set it, but it does not play.

So manual annoucments the entire time, which was good because I got caught up in the mess of a fire at High street. 

Apparently they have enough to make some changes. I am currently on 4105 heading out to work, we just left Broad Channel and we just past a 46 sitting in the Spur.

Yeah, the current public timetables have the midday work train access period built in, which I have had to explain multiple times to people in the same conversation. 
 

for this project they’re suspending it and allowing them to run express all day.

I should see in my great big collection, between myself and my late grandpa, if there is a 90s era L timetable so we can really compare just how much of change there is.

when everything is running smoothly, there is currently a train every 3-6 minutes all day.

On 12/19/2023 at 2:06 PM, MTA Researcher said:

Yes, you’re right. Like Sanji’s cook assistant says “The Customer Is Always King”

 

- from One Piece

until the customers turn into an angry mob because my train was rerouted at the last second, leaving me, without hyperbole, fearing for my safety. 

Working an R train job a year ago. weekend GO had the train express from Forest Hills to the Plaza. We get to 36th and the tower calls, saying that due to an issue, we were going via 63rd street. I make the annoucments.

We arrive at Queensbridge and about 20 people surround me, yelling and screaming. calling me all sorts of heinous things, to the point the cops who happened to be standing there got involved.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US THIS AT ROOSVELT YOU (bleeping) (insert homophobic slur)?!?"

 and they wouldn't accept the fact I didn't know this in advance and more so acted as if I had any say in the matter. 

They are not always right and they are anything but the kings... 

17 hours ago, MTA Researcher said:

Well said!
 

It upsets me that the crew behave like dictators. For crying out loud no wonder people prefer to drive, myself included… unfortunately I’m legally blind so I must rely on trains, but I promise the day my vision comes back to me; I’m no longer riding trains for any reason. Treat your customers with love and respect and they will return.

Maybe if the customers returned that respect once in a while instead of treating us like we’re part of the furniture…

hell, people like you and Wally do it in places like this very thread by coming up with ideas that do not consider us and our needs and comforts.

let me give you an example of what I’m talking about… the wonderful world of the Canarsie Line platform at Union Square. 
 

middle of the PM rush hour, when L trains run every 4 minutes or less, you get people verbally abusing me for simply doing my job. Because they come bouncing down the stairs as I am doing my platform sweep before returning control to the TO; put thier hands on the train doors and demand I let them on. When I tell them no. They start cursing me out, even after I point out my follower is literally right outside the station.

17 hours ago, Nova Fly Guy said:

As a 4th generation worker it’s never “people” problem let’s not forget without riders we have no job. The  is a poorly managed line horrible headway and timers. My grandfather always taught me we server the people not the other way around. Between RTO & Surface y’all have the worst attitude but make the most money.

In 25yrs my grandfather had only 2 major incidents at FP because he never personalized the job. I will never be onboard with blaming the public for the shitty mismanagement of the system that is all 2 Broadway & Albany fault.

 

Your grandfather also probably never had passengers demand he drag a sick and possibly dying man off his bus…

meanwhile two weeks ago that is exactly what I had. Man is lying face down on the ground having muscle spasms annd bleeding and the “only care about myself” types demand I move him.

people and thier selfish behavior is a core problem, that can on it should be be ignored for the sake of pushing the usual “the bosses suck” narrative.

it's based on the demand. who needs what when.

Like... of my induction group was 30 to the A and 20 to the B. of the 20 of us, only 12 are still working as conductors. some people got called for other things. some people quit. One i know got fired. 

So... what does that have to do with RTO mister Bus man... 

9 hours ago, RTOMan said:

That problem they seem to have fixed with the Foxes....

happened to me yesterday on a Romeo coming into the plaza. Still tagged for the southbound trip. 

7 hours ago, Trainmaster5 said:

Is that 1347 also an ECHO from Parsons ? I’m just curious how far it traveled before the problem was noticed. I’ve personally left the terminal and after 2 stops I fail to get a lineup into the 3rd station. Two separate lines, New Lots and Flatbush, and both incidents were at interlocking locations. Who’s responsible for this, human or computer? My original complaint was that I traveled 26 minutes S/B from the terminal through a complex interlocking area at East 180th Street while in constant contact with RCC on.the radio. Train arrives on time according to the timetable, the tower operator, and RCC yet they see my follower get a straight lineup into and out of the station while I am stuck in the loop. The riders actually run down the stairs to get on my train because there is no  in sight on the upper level. They don’t blame me. Carry on.

It has to get from Parsons to Kew before the problem even happens right now. 

another possibility is that the train is still tagged for the pervious trip. IE when it enters 50th street and renters CBTC territory, it’s southbound ID is still attached.

22 hours ago, ABCDEFGJLMNQRSSSWZ said:

I think part of the reason  has spotty headways is because there are too many merges and Chokepoints.

You want to know what REALLY kills the line's OTP and headways?

It's not the merging. It's not the length. It's not how many stops it makes...

It's the people. The ones who stand there with their feet in the doors trying to read the FINDS. The ones who stop me to ask redundant questions. the ones who come running down the stairs, shove themselves into the closing doors, hold them open for their family/ slash buddies, pile into the train... and then suddenly burst out of the train because they realized this WASN'T the train they wanted.

Or, to put it this way... Guess which line I worked today and Yesterday...

The problem with Continental as a terminal is that often times we have to be called down to the platform to pick up our train.

In the last few times I've had the R I've kept to time nearly every time, only for an issue that can not be solved by making changes to the line to show up, delaying me. 

Man gets sick.

Someone cuts the power.

someone forgot the rules about "Holding Lights as Starting Lights". 

4 hours ago, darkstar8983 said:

Quick question: what happened to the  line recently? Today I was waiting for an uptown train at Columbus Circle during the AM rush and I kid you not, for 35 minutes, NOTHING BUT R46s were coming in both directions. And even on my trip uptown to 168 St, nothing but R46s passed us (I came up on the ) in both directions. Did the MTA pull all the R179s and R211s off the ?

That’s physically impossible. We don’t have enough R46s on hand in Pitkin’s fleet to do that. 

when we enter CBTC territory, the computers on the train “localize” with the system and on both of our screens should have our call letters in full.

most of the time…

sometimes it will just be nonsense. Like “oX 1234 42 169” or something like that.

then when have to call control, tell them who we are and where we are and get them to fix it, which sometimes takes time. Imagine me as a Fox express a few weeks back begging them from Kew Gardens to Jackson Heights to fix it. Because even when sharing the 53rd street tube, you can’t proceed out of Jackson Heights without proper ID.

and when control is in Panic mode? Good luck with that. Thank God my XL North job starting next week doesn’t have the Queens corridor until the M returns to Forest Hills next year.

13 minutes ago, mikecintel said:

Thank you I searched for it but I guess they didn't post it yet.

Press conferences have thier own, separate YouTube channel.

”MTA Live”

16 minutes ago, mikecintel said:

Thanks for you update .  I searched in youtube and I can't find it anywhere.

You need to sub to “MTA Live” channel

Press conference is going on right now. So the maps should be out in the next hour or so.

they will require the trains to be tagged in the system and that doesn't always work. Sometimes you get someone else's ID, sometimes you get a random jumble of Lord only knows what...

... And Car Equipment likes to keep their cards close to their chest... 

This is why I try to carefully frame everything I say because some people blow it out of proportion.

i swear, I could say “I saw a lizard” and some of you would start running and screaming about Godzilla…

the issues the 211s have faced, other than the leaking gearbox lubricant, have almost all been software based.

No doors opening when they shouldn’t. No pull aparts. 
 

literally the only other major issue that I can think of that isn’t pure software was that one time when the traction system locked out while in service and that was most likely user error.

should note that RTOMan is one of only a handful of people who have been calling them that. Most are still calling it RCC, including control itself...