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Look up the IND second system

That doesn't explain the lack of flexibility.

It's not only the BMT that poorly plans their system, your forgetting the IRT. The infamous Rogers Junction is clear example of that poor planning. As for the IND's planning, they're usually smart about their development. Their shortsightedness was mainly do to financial issues as well as WWII being a thing. If it wasn't for either of them, we would probably be seeing more of the Second System like the SAS and whatever else the IND wanted to build. Infrastructure-wise, if you can call the post-unification system “IND” then some of the more poorly done jobs would be: The Chrystie Street connector Look no further than last month’s weekend service changes for supporting evidence. The 36 Street connector connecting 63 Street to Queens Boulevard Took away much of the trackage for train storage, making it only useful for half-length trains. Arguably, storage tracks aren’t that useful from a passenger’s perspective anyway. The Archer Avenue extension No connection between upper and lower levels means that when one level is taken out of service for construction work, its associated routes are truncated instead of being routed to the other level. Pre-unification, these would be great examples of poor planning on the IND’s part: Court Street Dead-ends in Brooklyn. World Trade Center No tail tracks. 145 Street as a terminal for local trains Though to their credit, they probably never intended 145 Street to be a regular terminal—only Bedford Park Boulevard.

If you’re American. It’s “drive” in the UK, I think. We’re not the UK, but a lot of new uses of words are created from lack of intellectual vigor. Take these for example: Semitic languages include Arabic and Hebrew as part of a language family since they are so similar. But antisemitism can only be taken to mean hatred against Jews, which is ironic considering that the Jews’ biggest threat is actually another Semitic group—the Arabs. But you’d never see anti-Arab hate referred to as “antisemitic.” Using “literally” to mean anything but literal, with no replacement word for the lost meaning. Thus, the next generation loses the ability to express that particular thought. Syme would have been very proud. “Could of”—no more needs to be said about this. Linguistic erosion: you can fight it or go along with the flow. In this case, the train operator job will probably be obsolete by the time the lexical shift sets, rendering the debate moot.

I mean… that much should be obvious. But the isn’t faster in practice because it’s neutered. Hence, even when I had to travel between Brooklyn and Queens, I took any train but the . It’s a neglected market.

From Bergen Street, a to Roosevelt Avenue would be 11 minutes faster than the . At the peak of weekday rush, 3 trains would have gone by in that time span. : 23 minutes from Bergen Street to Court Square + 7 minutes from Court Square to Roosevelt Avenue : 41 minutes from Bergen Street to Roosevelt Avenue

One wonders how a person can get a shopping cart outside of the shopping area and push it around as if everything were normal… by definition, they are found in supermarkets and such.

A good question is… why are shopping carts allowed in a subway station or the train? No normal person ever transports something so bulky.

I’ve been seeing the writing on the wall for quite a while already. The increased wait time for the next train means living on the fringes of the city is less bearable now. Can’t imagine what it would be like to be worse. Definitely moving closer to the core of the city if it still makes sense to do so next year.

The moderators have locked this thread before, pending new developments on the line.

I see every thread is now a fantasy proposal thread.

Sorry to burst your bubble… work-from-home is staying for good. It’s taken a big chunk of the daily commuters away and a good chunk of that is permanent.

If we wanted to be comprehensive, we would already have more of the established ones like the yellow and (13).

Well, certainly this is still cheaper than the Winfield Spur.

Slow speed order on Sea Beach southbound? Trains are crawling. I think it may be the overgrowth of vegetation along the track?

“What makes some overloaded designations okay but not others?”

This is not confusing with the via Sea Beach and via 2 Avenue?

Houston Street/2 Avenue is actually the only station that has an inferior connection if done from Bowery instead of 2 Avenue since the existing station spans 1 to 2 Avenue. A 2 Avenue alignment overlaps with its platforms while a Bowery alignment does not. It actually is pretty interesting that all of the crosstown stations at Lexington Avenue also touch 3 Avenue. I wonder if this is some legacy of the 3 Avenue elevated line having once existed.

Ancient technology has its benefits. Hackers get in to the most superficial layers, finds deeper layers impenetrable with modern techniques, withdraws from network.

trains… from 2 Av to 2 Av.

If they could take either the (2) or (5) wouldn’t that mean in the AM, there are those transferring from the (2) as well? Or is the lower number of transfers attributable to the fact that people would rather stand on the same platform than walk the stairs for the (4)?

The Coney Island-bound was meh in my opinion. That could have been axed for sure. It served as a faster alternative for upper Culver (Kings Highway–Church Avenue), but was about just as slow as the for lower Culver (Coney Island–Avenue U). Train dispatchers held the at Kings Highway and West 8 Street too often.

Riding it this weekend, it seems most of the are NTTs once again. I’ve seen a few R46s, but I’ve boarded trains at random times and it’s been a consecutive string of NTTs.

Train brakes activated on the Manhattan Bridge, delaying Brooklyn-bound and trains… so why #$@& are they sending trains through the bypass track, picking up 0 of the passengers stranded at DeKalb Avenue??? Meanwhile, they have speakers on blast: “As an alternative, please take the Coney Island-bound .”