N6 Limited

On 3/2/2024 at 1:49 AM, N6 Limited said:

Yeah it’s odd. I saw one of those trips one morning to “UBS Arena.” Maybe it’s interlined with the southbound n1, since AM n1 trips go to Jamaica?

There seems to be two AM n6 trips (7:18 & 7:54) to USB arena, which appear to enable interlining with two n1 trips (7:55 & 8:32) to Hewlett.

https://www.nicebus.com/Tools/Maps-and-Schedules/Line?route=n6

https://www.nicebus.com/Tools/Maps-and-Schedules/Line?route=n1

I used combo ticket this past weekend, the transfer between LIRR and MNRR isn’t as bad as many people made it seem. (You dont have to go all the way to the south end to exit.)
 

However, the combo origin/destination trips in TrainTime didn’t show the MN track info. I had missed the GC train by 15 seconds in Jamaica. I had to look up the MNRR trip individually, get the track number, position myself on the next LIRR train to GC to exit to the appropriate escalators which connected to the stairs corresponding to the range of MNRR tracks that my train was leaving from (thanks new MTA App offline maps!). And I was still able to connect to the originally planned MN train with a min or two to spare. 
 

But other than that, it’s not a long trek to the south end of GCM to connect to MN when there are other connections at 47th (tracks 11-42) and 45th(tracks 102-114) streets. 

1 hour ago, Amtrak41 said:

Are they ever going to get Trip History working again as on every other system, or is that beyond their competency ?

This whole thing is London's Oyster Card, which has a far more complex fare system and is not brand new technology.

Not sure why they took it away, all they had to do was limit it to signed in accounts.

On 12/30/2023 at 4:53 AM, Mtatransit said:

n6: short turns not on the schedule between UBS and Jamaica? I would argue it should atleast continue out to Elmont Rd

I agree, it’s odd that they’d choose the first stop.

On 12/30/2023 at 8:30 AM, B35 via Church said:

Fact of the matter is that nobody wants that stop for "1 Old County Road" (not only is that building not remotely sought after anymore, I'm not so sure if there's any tenants/businesses operating out of there these days! ) & the stop at Glen Cove/OCR is literally right in front of that shopping center.... So what if it's the next stop after RFM (which is the reason why I firmly believe that n22x's didn't originally/initially stop there)... I mean hell, for me, it's a 10-12 min. walk b/w the 2 stops - so for the average person, it's easily over 15+..... Hell, during peak mall hours, it can take buses 10+ minutes to get between the 2 stops with all that traffic spilling onto, off of, and already along OCR alone....

When I used the N15 in LIB days, many were riding to One Old Country Rd in Nurse attire, and Clinton/Glen Cove Rds for the shopping Centers, if not East Gate Blvd. Anyone going to Roosevelt Field preferred the more direct N35. If there are trip generators in the area again, they may need to revert the old N15 routing at all times. The last southbound N15 was about 10PM and Glen Cove Rd stop would be busy, many waiting for the N15 to Hempstead/Long Beach and N22 to Jamaica ( Some for N24).

On 12/31/2023 at 8:36 PM, TheNextGen2009 said:

I agree. UBS Arena feels like an inconvenient spot to short turn, as it's kind of in the middle of nowhere. Looks like NICE are doing their own spin of the proposed Q82 /s

Yeah it’s odd. I saw one of those trips one morning to “UBS Arena.” Maybe it’s interlined with the southbound n1, since AM n1 trips go to Jamaica?

On 1/20/2024 at 11:45 AM, Mtatransit said:

Relying on NICE in general makes you wish you have a car

The service gets especially bad after 7-8pm. The ridership is there but the frequency really ramps down

Regarding the n4 . Wish they had some RVC short turns like I believe the MTA used to have. Too bad they don’t have the yard there anymore

Yes, after 9pm the n6 is on 20 min headway and I’d always see Hempstead bound riders flagged after 179th st ( and sometimes at 179th st! Though, it was typically Francis Lewis & Hillside, Francis Lewis & Jamaica, and Springfield Blvd.) Being perpetually flagged at 20 min headway must be frustrating. I’d say they should probably run artics for those runs now that they have them.

How about using the ROW to extend the IBX from Brooklyn? Or, if keeping the BRT, extending IBX to St. George to connect to BRT services?

Will the T run this weekend?

5 hours ago, CenSin said:

Ah… the indignities one has to suffer through for a non-one-seat ride… missing the first cross-platform transfer by 3 seconds, then missing the second one (backup transfer point) by a minute, and then getting held for a train to cross ahead. Now I gotta walk two avenues across town.

Can’t blame people for holding on to their one-seat ride so strongly now…

And sometimes holding doors.

17 hours ago, Gotham Bus Co. said:

 

Include a Staten Island extension in the plan now? Or make an allowance for a future extension?

An allowance and serious consideration for an extension.

On 1/27/2024 at 11:30 AM, JAzumah said:

On 1/25/2024 at 4:06 PM, Gotham Bus Co. said:

 

NJT interstate buses incur tolls and platform fees to operate between NY and NJ. That cost has to be allocated.

Does the PANYNJ give discounts to NJT? 

Rinaldi mentioned in a GCM One Year Anniversary press conference that 80k Combo Tickets have been sold.

Interesting note from press event, 80k combo tickets were sold.

Grand Central Madison One Year Anniversary 

4 hours ago, Iron Valiant said:

Those are new diesels.

They had clean fuel stickers as well, they have clean fuel diesels?

I saw 9013 on the Q6 and 9029 on the Q8. New Hybrids?

13 hours ago, B35 via Church said:

I just don't care for the Q86.... Rhetorical, but what rationale is there to connect residential Rosedale to Merrick Blvd?

Access to Rosedale LIRR from both sides of Sunrise, access to businesses on Merrick Blvd (east of Baisley Blvd), as well as network connectivity, (n4, Q111), etc.

13 hours ago, B35 via Church said:

This assumes that route would've ran out of JFK.... Even if it would have, Sutphin has no business being aligned to Hillside anyway.... There's a fine line between better utilizing resources within a network & going about constructing/assembling a network... Combining service along a significant enough a portion along Sutphin to a significant enough a portion along Hillside is a poor example of the latter.... Furthermore, you're never going to eliminate turnover anyway, so your point here is rather moot....

Oh, my point wasn’t about turnover, my point was that perhaps there wouldn’t be “reverse peak” deadheads passing people waiting for packed buses, possibly getting flagged, if the those buses would actually be in revenue service since they’d have to serve both corridors anyway.  (Though, merging isn’t necessary for that to be addressed.)

Did anyone notice on the Remix map, they have the route’s going to where the new Jamaica Bus Terminal is proposed to be?

5 hours ago, JoshTheScrub said:

Hey at least they keeping the Q6 Limited and not merging it with the Q1

I mean is that a good thing? There's so much deadheading in opposite peak direction, it would have been better utilization of resources with overall better frequency, like how the subway lines through Manhattan run. Not too long ago I was on a PACKED Q6 to Jamaica in the PM, which was followed and preceded by deadheads.

On 12/9/2023 at 12:46 PM, mikecintel said:

So that means the Metro Vending Machines will be taking away then.

Riders are going to have to top up their MetroCard balances to increments of $2.90 before then, so that they can use up their entire remaining balance. Imagine having value left over, and you can’t transfer to OMNY, so you have to mail it in to get a refund of less than $2.90.

9 hours ago, 4P3607 said:

Upon downloading the most recently revised draft plan from "November 2023" from multiple sources, it appears it is literally just the March 29, 2022 version being falsely advertised as the most recent update. Not a single change was made since last year. Yet I've been told the newest plan has been released and is publicly available.

Either multiple website have incorrectly linked 2022's version or the most recent update doesn't exist and they're just using last year's version.

9 hours ago, MysteriousBtrain said:

The Queens Bus page was not updated as of September 2023. Give it a couple days for it to be officially posted by the MTA.

Probably tomorrow (or so), accompanied by a press conference.

14 hours ago, BrooklynBus said:

Who qualifies as a stakeholder? 

Probably community board members and politicians.

On 12/2/2023 at 12:37 AM, N6 Limited said:

They opened the Customer Service Center at Sutphin Blvd  .  It’s on the south side of the mezzanine, opposite of where the old booth was. It looks like a “carved out” area of the station, I wonder what was there in that area before, storage

On 11/29/2023 at 3:50 PM, trainfan22 said:

Rode the rush hour BM2 from midtown to Canarsie the other day during rush hour, took around two hours, with it taking an hour to just leave Manhattan! The FDR was crawling up until the Brooklyn Bridge. 

Now you see one of the reasons why they try to stealth kill “express” routes.

On 11/29/2023 at 3:50 PM, trainfan22 said:

Also Cortelyou Rd is a killer when it comes traffic badly timed lights, etc. 

Many NYC roads are, and then they’ll blame everything else for reduced bus speeds, omitting poorly timed signals, blanket reduced speed limit/vision zero, etc.

They opened the Customer Service Center at Sutphin Blvd  .  It’s on the south side of the mezzanine, opposite of where the old booth was. It looks like a “carved out” area of the station, I wonder what was there in that area before, storage?

10 hours ago, QM1to6Ave said:

Unless you are paying cash to reload the card, the autofill option through the website is great. Works very well and I never need to think about it.

At what amount does it autofill?