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It was already terminating at 57th Street, so the eventual extension to East Side - 96th Street ended up being seamless. The reason why the train wasn't chosen was because of some understandable want for familiarity with Astoria Service being all the N. This can’t be it since the was already going to Astoria at that time. It also wouldn’t be the first time the (re)opening of a line shuffled a whole bunch of routes.

You are giving complex examples. Hence, I had qualified my statement: I expect some level of baseline knowledge from regular riders, such as knowing the stations their trains are stopping at every day.

The best answer to a passenger who doesn’t look like a tourist or out-of-towner: “is it physically possible for this train to go anywhere else except X?” (where X is usually a station a few stops away along an isolated R.O.W.) Like… you wouldn’t board a at New Lots Avenue and ask if it would go to Utica Avenue. The topology of the system all but guarantees it. An at Nassau Avenue? Where else could it possibly go in any direction? These are things—Markov chains or decision processes—that are learned through osmosis. A passenger who pays attention day-to-day learns these relationships and probabilities passively—no secret track map required.

A very chatty conductor over the weekend on the griped about this loud and clear during his train announcement at Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center going southbound. He had been making announcements the entire time from 34 Street–Herald Square (where I got on), while the train was in the station and as the train was in between stations. After one of the passengers got off the train and walked up to the conductor to ask a—presumably—very stupid question which had already been answered for the past 15 minutes of droning announcements, the conductor made a very public speech about learning to pay attention—to the amusement of everyone else who wasn’t that idiot.

They retroactively retconned the code to be orange. That means every prior discussion about the brown is now orange.

When the broker asked me what objections I had to the Hudson Yards property, this was exactly my gripe. Yea, there is a subway station. But it’s out of service every other weekend, and it’s the only subway station around. Also, I don’t want to go to Queens. I only need it to get me to a train that I do need.

maybe you all should have thought about that before you started calling for Airtrain LGA to be canceled, as that would have given the entire Willets Point station complex a full renovation. Building a backwards shuttle to the airport just to get a single accessible station is like… (help me out here, I can’t settle on an analogy.)

Wow… what the network glitch…

Wow… what the network glitch…

I can't tell if that's sincere or sarcastic... Definitely sincere. Sarcastic remarks are always punctuated with /s for this very reason! 🙂

Looks like Broken Windows is here to stay. What a great time to live in NYC. Now they have to treat the rest of the subway system like they treat the LIRR: it’s not a mobile home.

Sounds like they want to not have subway service for 74 years. I’ve heard work trains honk their horns in the evenings, screeching of trains coming from West 8 Street, and clanking of wheels over Neptune Avenue into the creek in Coney Island for several decades. The trains have been there before I was even born. My family knew what kind of experience they were buying when we moved in. I would also love for the elevated lines to be replaced, with a better elevated line or an underground one. But such projects are generational now, and those who get it started never live to see it done.

If only this announcement means they’d actually make an effort to peel themselves off of the mezzanine walls and catch people obvious farebeating in front of them. I saw a pair at Fulton Center hop over the turnstiles right in front of the cops 20 feet away. They were taking their sweet time getting over them and neither of the cops lifted a leg to give the chase.

In the same way that the Lexington Avenue tunnel above the express tracks adds stations like 51 Street, or that Northern Boulevard is an extra station along a separate tunnel and that the and are not really skipping it? lol

Same headline, different day: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/brooklyn-subway-shooting-nyc-crime-afternoon-rush-hour-hoyt-schermerhorn/5226381/ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/brooklyn-s-district-attorney-will-not-pursue-charges-against-man-in-fatal-new-york-city-subway-shooting-citing-self-defense/ar-BB1jYN69 tl;dr: man got shot with his own gun after threatening another on train