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Yup. But I don’t care what they do in their stall as long as the train runs like the wind and they’re not braking like a retard. If making out or getting some in there makes the train run faster, by all means carry on.

And they wonder why nobody but the union is on their side.

Just send him a FOIL request.

Any institution that’s affixed to a station name ought to earn it though. For the CUNYs: Baruch’s 73% graduation rate is 1.5 times the national average. City College’s 60% graduation rate is just a few points above average. Hunter’s 56% is average. Medgar Evers is at 21%. City Tech is at 18%. To compare with two of the best institutions whose names grace the subway stations: NYU has a graduation rate of 88%, and Columbia is still better at 96%.

That anything could be infinite typifies one of the following kinds of people: * Ivory tower mathematicians * Theoretical physicists * Economists (whose field is pretty much all theory and no substance—so no qualifier needed) * People who have never done any kind of accounting, logistics, or inventory

Does CBTC even help Astoria when it’s only installed in Astoria? The choke points are all railroad south of Queensboro Plaza. If they really wanted to help, they’d install CBTC from 59 Street–Columbus Circle/Queensboro Plaza/Queens Plaza to Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center.

Ask the MTA to pull a Medgar Evers College on the Bronx Zoo. It spans 3 subway stations, according to the website: West Farms Square–East Tremont Avenue, East 180 Street, or Pelham Parkway.

The quest for the best bone-raising thrills!

From the preliminary story, I can only see this as 100% the fault of the MTA.

So we're actually no better than 2018. They're just giving back a fraction of what they took away.

I take your condolences from him and his family. Stupidity ought to be among the cardinal sins.

Gone are the days when the MTA planned for 80 MPH.

How generous of you to assume that they have heads …and that they think.

I remember Lexington Ave/59th St smelling like vomit for years, even after various projects that took place there. Somehow the smell always managed to stay behind. Some things are built on blood, sweat, and tears. NYC’s subway infrastructure is built on piss, shit, ‘n’ vomit. Sounds like they never tiled over the vomit parts.

What is there to test? They had NTTs on the since the mid-2000s! They know how it performs.

If they only connected the plaza stations, there would be no need for improvement at Court Square; the connection to the is already fine and Queens Plaza has a superset of the other connection options. It’s also good for when they do those frequent construction work where there is no/reduced service west of Queensboro Plaza.

My second ride on such a bike took me from High Street–Brooklyn Bridge () to 5 Avenue/33 Street (~) in 26 minutes. That beats the fastest possible train/bus route already. Of course, this is another ideal case. There is no traffic or signals on the Manhattan Bridge, and 1 Avenue has a dedicated bike lane.

If I didn’t take those new e-bikes CitiBike has available now, I would not even consider biking competitive. But for $0.15 per minute and speeds approaching that of a car on a local street, I’m inclined to believe that they could fill a transportation niche: not too long of a wait to get moving, cheaper than a subway ride if you’re not going far, and possibly faster than waiting for a train if going a mere mile or two. I’ve ridden one over the Manhattan Bridge, and it took less than 8 minutes.

What are some examples of times when express trains had to skip additional express stops to make up for lost time?

The is awful in Brooklyn, and so are the buses. Missed one Coney Island-bound train, the next one the came immediate after was to Kings Highway, and the following one was due 14 minutes later. It’s not even an isolated occurrence. I often board at 15 Street–Prospect Park around 6 PM and the wait is incredibly long for weekdays. As for the buses… It took my bus two traffic light cycles to make 1 turn at an intersection. That wait was practically the headway between two buses. Both the MTA and DOT dropped the ball here with planning.

The bike lanes are just as full of potholes, worn-out/illegible “🚲” lane paint, and double-parked cars getting in the way.

The are missing @1:45. What gives?

With CBTC, I would say just shut down one half of the tunnel and take advantage of bidirectional operation to operate the remaining pair of tracks on one side of the tunnel as if it were just double-tracked. No need to make all trains express or all trains local when any track an operate trains in any direction. The caveat is that the switches must be in place for that kind of operation. Queens Boulevard is full of them and the eastern stretch of Fulton Street, all of Culver, and Central Park West.

Just wondering… how convenient is it for night time commuters starting end ending along lines that have 3 services running at night? Does it work out to average waits during daytime in practice? Times Square–42 Street and 96 Street DeKalb Avenue and 36 Street

I’m not understanding the logic where CBTC gets installed. Shouldn’t CBTC be installed around the choke point-heavy segment from 42 Street–Times Square to DeKalb Avenue where the junction is the key factor in train throughput? OR am I understanding the purpose of CBTC wrong?