CenSin

Ye goode olde reactive decisions! Put security on the Broadway stations because , , and trains were smashed. They’d never think to trek a block over to 6 Avenue or Lexington Avenue to wreak havoc. Next thing you know, , , , , and—gasp—even and trains get their windows smashed in. Nobody would ever see that coming. All the data points (1 data point actually) show they only vandalize the yellow bullet trains. (/s)

If they could have done it from Coney Island to Court Square, that would seem pretty fairly isolated. Counting the Kings Highway , Coney Island , , and as functionally separate routes, and it would make for a smaller scale test case in preparation for Queens Boulevard. The only routes dragged into a potential mess would be the , , and the occasional via Culver.

OTOH, it’d take forever to get relief on the lines that actually need them if they’d used all the double-tracked lines as test beds/proving grounds first. The was kind of an all-the-stars-aligned case since it was double-tracked, isolated from merges, and busy. The was a runner up. Not many other tidy configurations to select from beyond those two?

[Grand]parents after kids’ arrest: “😢 he was a good boy—a sweetheart with his whole life ahead of him. He wanted to be a doctor and save lives.”

Looks like and trains may be running local—at least the next few northbound trains joining 4 Avenue. A got taken out of service at 36 Street. Friendly reminder: look both ways down the tunnel when deciding whether to wait for an express after a train gets taken out of service. That is somewhere north of the switch at 36 Street blocking the at 59 Street.

The vandals need to be vandalized… 🙄

Took them long enough. Like lol… do I need to know my Coney Island-bound train was local at Neptune Avenue?

If real, the MTA’s buggin. They deleted all the wrong letters. Maybe LXNGTN instead?

What’s “better education?” It’s no secret that it sucks. What makes it suck? Parents themselves need education… on educating. Based on how some kids behave in public, you’d think the parents expect their kids to get everything from school—including how to be a model citizen.

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I mean… the Queens Boulevard trunk didn’t exist in 1900. Therefore, we should restore it to its former state by filling in the tunnel with dirt and removing the station facilities. How far back do you want to go? If you want past status as a justification for future changes, it gets ridiculous very fast. On a tangent, but: It’s kind of like the Russian justification for trying to take Ukraine. If they wanted to look a little further back in history, it was Ukraine that ruled over current Russian territories. Maybe Putin should surrender Russia to Ukraine if he is so enamored with restoring things to their “rightful state.”

That doesn’t change the fact that your plan cuts capacity into Manhattan, express or not. You missed that main point.

Ah right. The platforms were not always as long as they are now.

The other thing is that having to go to Manhattan isn’ta mentality. Cutting a quarter of capacity to Manhattan diverts capacity from many people’s main destination.

Because if their train went to Manhattan, they wouldn’t have to. Those two scenarios are guaranteed now because the train they’re already on doesn’t go there.

Being the furthest track from the curve, would that not increase the curve radius, making it more easy to navigate?

They really ought to reconsider that track connection which formerly existed between tracks 6 and 7 south of the Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue station. As soon as 4 Avenue is jammed up or out of commission, the trains on tracks 7 and 8 are practically marooned, and the ones pulling into track 6 from north of the station jam up the already crappy terminal operations.

I do not believe shooting objects at people for farebeating is the solution. Some of the stuff you propose on here is pretty extreme to say the least. Not surprising considering your history & reputation on this forum. lol. You think that’s serious? I propose mounting fare beaters’ heads on pikes—to take the place of the green/red lamps by the station entrances. The olde scarecrow trick should do it.

You want half the express trains barreling down Queens/Northern Boulevard to drop off a whole bunch of people at Queens Plaza or Court Square to take the next train or make a mad rush up to get the because it skips Manhattan?

You know it’s too easy to evade the fare system when yuppies casually stroll through the emergency exit or hop the turnstile. And they’ve got a lot more to lose from being arrested.

No Gotta give him credit for persistence though. Someone hook him up with a cushy job at a lobbying firm. They’ll be happy to have someone who insists and never takes “no” for an answer. Put NYCTF down as a reference. Heck, I’ll vouch for him. Seen it for at least 10 years if not longer. This guy’ll outlast several administrations to push an agenda.

Why not? It does on midday and weekend G.O.s all the time, and all the infrastructure has even been recently improved to facilitate it. Going northbound now, locals can switch to express north of Kings Highway instead of at Avenue X where it would get in the way of terminal operations on the middle track at Kings Highway.

If this forum ever gains AI features, there’s no better use for it than giving an automated response to some common suggestions. I wonder what Chat GPT has to say about some of these proposals—if it learned anything from NYCTF. 😉

I can already read the Onion headline: “Elected Officials Shocked Impossible Demand Ignored”

Today’s been one of those better days on the : lucked out and skipped ahead of 3 s on the way to Sheepshead Bay. Last week, not so much: stuck in traffic for so long I could not even transfer to the same I was on before I got on the . 😂