CenSin

Unbelievable. There are eight tracks, six of which were supposed to be in service ( counted out), and somehow all six of them need repairs. What are the odds?

Forest Hills wasn’t even supposed to be a terminal… The more logical thing to do would be to connect the super-express tracks to the express tracks or both via the yard leads to Union Turnpike. As opposed to locking the super-express tracks to the local tracks. The most logical thing to do, however, would be to keep the LIRR-adjacent subway line completely separate from the Queens Boulevard line, running it straight from 63 Street to Jamaica–Parsons–Archer.

Not 💯. The super express becomes a local east of Forest Hills? But why? Seems counterintuitive. I would expect a tapered/graduated “demotion” of super-express to express and express to local, not a complete switcheroo where both services end up taking the same amount of time to get to Manhattan, taking away the possibility of an actual faster service.

Sauce: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/nyregion/nyc-subway-homeless.html

This is really “the glass is half full” versus “the glass is half empty.” Substitute crime/drug addicts/homeless residents/crazies with train delays and you can see why this is not a good way to approach the issue. Imagine in 2012: “There was a ! They took away service!” “Well, back in my days there was no so you’re still better off now than before.” Or with healthcare: “The healthcare sucks right now. Look at how much Europe and Asia are doing!” “Well a century ago, life expectancy was under 50 years of age.” I don’t think we should be judging by ancient standards. We can do better than setting a very low bar for quality of life based on the decades of rampant crime and urban decay.

With inflation, people throwing $1 bills at you won't be sustainable in the near future. Should be negotiating pay at a job while the power is in favor of job seekers.

The safety and crime bringing the subway down is kinda on-point though. The place is literally up in flames. Legit saw a homeless guy sit down on the floor like a panda on a crowded to take a shit today.

Probably better there than the Random Thoughts thread. Take care to suit-up (HAZMAT level A) before going in. Folks be puking Skittles and rainbow noodles all over the place in there.

Just in time to screw a Monday morning commute…

That’s an easy problem to solve. You put one of those choo choos 🚂 on the track that can go anywhere and you add platform extenders to it. Tape a “” sticker to the front and the rear. At South Ferry, it will then transform à la Optimus Prime and walk up the stairs to the track before transforming back into a train and heading to Coney Island.

The answer to all “can I …” questions is “yes” except those which are prohibited by the laws of physics. Of course, it’s all theoretical. What did you hope for by creating a thread with a rhetorical question for a title?

There is no project where the TA can even start before the vultures have already landed to take their fill…

Are the switches at 34 Street–Penn Station not operational? Or do they need that much distance between the emergency teams and active track?

Someone speed-reading might misinterpret that…

Thread’s already too crowded with other people’s R211 posts. Panhandlers only have a shot at success when there is only one in the entire car (thread). Ever seen two unacquainted panhandlers work a car at the same time?

If the bus routes are any indication, the most straightforward extension of the would put it far from optimal coverage. The local buses serving the area run along Riverdale Avenue, not Broadway. The does not look extendable to Woodlawn without cutting through the cemetery or making a sharp detour. Best to leave those two alone.

The problem with these videos is that they don’t have any original content. They’re just screen caps of static content with very slow voiceover commentary.

If we were to catalog all of the rush hour variants (excluding short turns/extensions), we’d have enough symbols to cover them all. The diamond shape in effect acts as a flag indicating “deviation” from normal service as they used to before the 2005 nomenclature overhaul narrowed it to apply only to supplemental express rush hour services. to/from New Lots Avenue express to/from Burnside Avenue to/from Nereid Avenue, Gun Hill Road, Crown Heights–Utica Avenue, or New Lots Avenue to/from Rockaway Beach to/from Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard to/from Jamaica–179 Street to 96 Street via Sea Beach to Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue via Sea Beach The last two () are the only ones fluid enough that choosing an appropriate letter for the variant is a toss-up between using the same letter as the Brooklyn side of service or the same letter as the non-Brooklyn side of service. One clear problem I’ve had to content with in the mornings is not knowing which platform to use when I’m catching a train. Google Maps shows a train leaving in 3 minutes. (Sea Beach trains often leave 2 minutes earlier than what Google Maps indicates.) I run up to tracks 3/4 and the via Sea Beach departs from track 1. The letter designation is totally useless to me as a passenger in the morning and actively impedes decision making.

At the very least, they could give these routings a different designation like . The current conventions are about as stupid as giving two of your kids the same name. They are clearly different.

Coney Island-bound R46 come in, immediately turns around as a via Sea Beach with the signs intact. Is there even a good reason why the announcements should mention that the train “is a operating over the line?” It serves nobody except those getting on at Times Square–42 Street and 57 Street–7 Avenue or off at 5 Avenue and beyond.

“I declare today Caesar’s Cipher Day! For 24 hours, every numeric symbol’s value shall be incremented by 1, modulus 10. 1 is now 2, 2 is now 3, … 9 is now 0, and 0 is now 1. Thus, 1 + 1 = 5. Anyone who finds it confusing will be directed to our personal responsibility instructor who will didactically remind you that it is your fault for not understanding!” Also consider this angle when designing reroutes (ditto to the MTA itself): would Steve Jobs rake you over the coals for your complex, unintuitive, consumer-unfriendly proposal if you presented it to him?

“Missing the forest for the trees”

trains coming off the bridge and from the tunnel. Crazy traffic jam at DeKalb Avenue. And they’re both going express down 4th Avenue.

going over the Manhattan Bridge southbound right now… no mention on MTA.info nor Twitter

These are with respect to routing efficiency alone. Factor in efficiency loss for the passengers trying to figure out how to move and all those hold-ups at stations from confused people. The subway is not a piece of hardware with the goal of moving as many trains as possible in a unit of time. It has to move people as best as possible.