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shiznit1987

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  1. The tunnel most definitely adds new stops: Court St, Boro Hall, Whitehall, Rector and Cortlandt. FWIW I do sympathize with your point, it's not convenient for either the MTA internally nor the riding public when one service has three or four different service patterns in a single day (see 1990s trains). My own personal proposal features an expansion of QB service to weekends, leaving only late nights to contend with, in which case all riders know stuff changes all around past 11pm or so. Having on 53rd all times except late nights (late nights 63rd st) isn't beyond the pale in context of changes the system already undergoes.
  2. I can't see them letting the go local late nights. People already have ridiculous bus rides just to get to Jamaica to make everything local would set everyone off. CBTC work is one thing but I don't see the MTA being let off the hook for that one.
  3. Ironically, that's part of the problem right there. Everyone loves the down 53rd st so much so that by the 1990s Lex/53rd was dangerously overcrowded. I want the / swap too, but that might be part of the MTA's calculus.
  4. All this is just security theater until they overturn the bail laws. Who's gonna care about getting caught with a piece when they're out within 24 hrs. Waste of money. As for gun control, NYS has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation. Canada isn't shooting free either, Toronto has some rough pockets plus the TTC has had a recent crime wave. Britian now stops people for *knives* in the poor parts of London, Birmingham, etc. Unless you address a) drug addiction, b) forcing the mentally ill into treatment, no more coddling c) giving these teens/young men jobs d) fixing the schools and finally real consequences for serious crime, then nothing is going to change.
  5. For what it's worth, QB service has *never* been this smooth with both the and running along 53rd st. i am going to miss this GO badly...
  6. What are my chances of catching an R211 on the weekend? I was thinking of getting out there this Sunday but I don't want to waste my time...
  7. This is why I suggested breaking up the Q44: Q44 SBS: Fordham to Flushing Q45 SBS: Flushing to Jamaica w/ possible extention to JFK.
  8. I'd love if the Q64 went straight down 71st then down Metropolitan to Atlas Park. Would make for a nice subway connector for Forest Hills/Glendale. The Q23 can be cut back to Continential to serve as a FH-Corona crosstown.
  9. Honestly, alot of this new plan is just shuffling deck chairs. What happened to expanding SBS? Right off the bat Q46, Q66, Q60, Q69, Q43, Q4, Q5, Q6, Q111 should all be SBS. I do love the new Q98 thou. Personal note: MTA *refuses* to up frequency on the Q53/Q52. Why?
  10. Designs can be calibrated for system particularities. If Alstom and Siemens can build HSR trains in Europe with several different power systems, signaling regimens, and even different track guages (Spain) then that's not an issue. While in spirit I do in fact want American jobs here we need to face facts: We don't have the business demand of Europe or Asia for heavy rail equipment. We can dig our heels in and accept that only a few players will set up shop in the hopes of reeling in a "big fish" every 5 or 10 years of so or realize that if we're to expand upon the uptake of transit in this country we need to find a way to get costs down and this is one way in which it can be done.
  11. It sounds tempting, but only SF DC Chicago and Boston have systems of a size and scope to make it worthwhile. Remember that Alstom, Siemens and Kawasaki are all conglomerates with multiple endeavors other that heavy rail car manufacturing. It's a huge lift to have to put up the immense upfront capital costs of a manufacturing facility and retain the thousands of employees to excecute 500-1000+ car orders. What we should do is drop the Buy America nonsense and purchase off the shelf designs that have been working around the world for decades rather than MTA management demanding that we reinvent the wheel because "New York is special"
  12. Construction and signaling should definitely be in house. If the MTA had an in-house construction agency like WMATA did during their boom years of the 1970s to 1990s I bet alot more could get built. Railcar manufacturing is too sporadic to be effective in house. There's a big order at best every 10 years but in some cases there's been 20 year gaps in purchases.
  13. Most people see the and as a combined entity so no biggie. The local news has never seen it fit to be super on point when it comes to the subway.
  14. Considering how far behind they are at Woodhaven Blvd, heck-to-the-NO on closing both sides. It's bad enough I no longer have the option of taking the Q53 to the when I need/want to get to Jamaica, but then to not have that option coming home is too much. If one (side) platform can't be done on time why trust that two would? Plus, the 82nd st station on the is monsterously busy I can't see it being fully closed.
  15. What is everyone's thoughts on passenger-activated doors in the subway? In Paris and other european cities the doors don't open automatically, intead you push a button. I think this would help extend the life of door motors as outside of peak hours and busy stations not all doors will need to open all the time, plus it might make C/R jobs easier too as doors cannot be opened last minute.
  16. Personally, I'm in favor of extending the M60 to Flushing. Stop and think about it: You would now have an SBS link from Flushing not just to LGA, but now to Astoria and Upper Manhattan. Another option would be breaking apart the Q44 SBS into two pieces: A Q44 SBS from Fordham Plaza, thru Parkchester and Flushing to LGA and a Q45 SBS from LGA, to Downtown Flushing, then down Main Street to Jamaica. This Q45 SBS could be extended down to JFK as well.
  17. While I realize this isn't the spot to discuss this, let me just ask the forum: Will congestion pricing kill Back to the office, thus negating any potential ridership increases?
  18. My two cents: I'm glad they're ditching the idea of combining the Q10 and Q64, very dumb idea. Same for sending the Q23 down Union Turnpike. I actually like the Q63. It will have the side effect of helping speed up and better regulate Q66 service. Not sure what extending the B62 to Astoria is supposed to do for anyone. I fear the proposed B57 is a nice idea, but will fare badly in practice. I hope they don't cut the Q53 back from Woodside. Just extend the Q52 to Jackson Heights and please, please, please increase the frequency. I also think that sending the Q27 and Q17 into College Point will also kill reliablilty. Maybe have College Point be served by their own routes? I do like the Q17 being cut back to Fresh Meadows thou. I like the Q75 idea. Breaking up the Q38 for no real reason doesn't make sense to me. Removing Q47 from Calamus Ave pretty much kills any reason for the route to exist. All the ridership is on Calamus. Just keep the bus on Calamus until Grand then route it to 80th St from there. Not feeling the Q21 extention. Leave the Q11/Q21 alone.
  19. Maybe i'm reading it wrong, but Forest Hills and Kew Gardens are slated to get a massive service boost with each other's trains stopping at the other. I'm stoked.
  20. The only thing is that due to the driver shortages, the Q60 can be hit or miss at night. If I'm coming from the city, I'll always take the to Roosevelt then assess what's running from there (Q53, the OBL, Q47 etc).
  21. Considering the fit the North Shore is having over the elimination of Port Washington skip-stop I had a thought: There's an area just past the Bayside station that has room for a couple of sidings that could turn trains. With this in mind, my proposal is to basically split the Port Wash into an "inner" and "outer" zone with two predominant service patterns: "Outer Zone" trains stop at Woodside then continue express to Bayside, afterwards making all stops to Port Washington. "Inner Zone" trains make all stops to Bayside, then turn around at new sidings just past the station. there would be 30 mins off peak service on both zones with trains alternating between GCT and Penn.
  22. In the short term, the answer is HEETs, HEETs and more HEETs. In the longer term, I'd like a two-door system where the first set of barriers are open and the second closed, tap your OMNY/Metrocard, that first set of doors closes behind you and the second one that's in front of you opens. The turnstile resets to close the second set of doors and open the first after 2 seconds for the next passenger. This is so people don't try to jam their way in behind people. I don't have any answer for the buses other than expanding the eagle teams to non SBS routes.
  23. Speaking of "Grand Central Madison", I noticed on OpenRailwayMap that there are tail tracks down to 39th St. How hard would it be to connect those tracks to the existing east river tunnels and create a loop, thereby sending almost all LIRR trains to Grand Central.
  24. IMHO, living right along Woodhaven myself, I'd prefer a light rail that makes the same stops the Q52/Q53 do now with Woodhaven Blvd station converted to an express station. That truly would cover all the bases IMHO. I don't think that Eastern Queens should see subway extentions unless there was some massive increase in total subway capacity into Manhattan. These ideas of sending the // further into Queens don't account for the fact that the trains are already saturated and any extention eastward would either just pick up the same riders or simply overwhelm the system. Instead, there should be light rail lines along the LIE, Union Tpke, Sutphin, Merrick, Hillside, Lefferts, Woodhaven, Northern, etc, connecting to the subway to both speed up service and boost intra-boro transit capacity.
  25. Honestly, it's not. The area it runs thru is either reasonably close to the subway network or has pretty decent bus service. I can think of several more worthwhile subway/LIRR extentions than RRB.
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