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2 hours ago, Calvin said:

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/09/22/adams-unveils--robocop--guardian-for-times-square-subway-station

I was worried this would be some pushover, but 400+ pounds is some pretty hefty weight. I’m hoping that means it’s scratch, stab, smash, shatter, shock, and waterproof.

2 hours ago, FLX9304 said:

Extra security is being place at ALL ,  &  stations for any person or persons of interest who dare to smash windows again. It’s $500 fine & 1 year in jail.

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)

11 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

They should have tried it on a smaller trunk line like Culver between Bergen St & Avenue X. 

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.

14 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

CBTC on QBL was the worst decision they ever did. The subway is to old and CBTC is still to new of a technology to be tried on a 4 trunk mainline.

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?

29 minutes ago, FLX9304 said:

These parents, who don’t care about them while they’re at work, trying to support their bills, meanwhile, the kids doing all kinds of bad things: robbing, stealing, assaulting the innocent.

[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… 🙄

2 hours ago, darkstar8983 said:

Maybe they’re doing what they did in the A division - only designating Express/local on sections of track where an express service can be provided, which shortens the announcements and saves memory on the hardware. However a true saving on memory would be to delete programs / route options that are shortened versions of the usual route:

Example:  shuttle from Queensboro Plaza to Ditmars Blvd, or the  to Bay Ridge-95 St starting from Whitehall St

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

13 hours ago, Maxwell179 said:

Just seen 1228 on the  and the side panel said “ LNGTON AV EX “. Am I bugging or wasn’t it always spelled out fully as “ LEXINGTON AVE EXP “ ?

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

On 9/8/2023 at 2:31 PM, CyclonicTrainLookout said:

Younger generations need access to better education

What’s “better education?” It’s no secret that it sucks. What makes it suck?

On 9/8/2023 at 2:31 PM, CyclonicTrainLookout said:

parents need to educate their kids on safety and common sense more

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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14 hours ago, Robert Spire said:

Capacity that didn't exist before December 16, 2001 and capacity which was formerly used by the  before.

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.”

10 hours ago, Robert Spire said:

But insisting on using the express train to do so is.

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

1 hour ago, JustTheSIR said:

It would if the platform ended farther from the street. If you tried to build that turn you’d probably have to make supports in the middle of Surf Avenue, while the turn itself would be like the one between Fort Hamilton Parkway and 9th Avenue, just a lot tighter

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

2 hours ago, Robert Spire said:

The thing is QBL riders have this mentality that they HAVE TO be on the express train. That's part of why the  was sent via 53rd rather than 63rd Street. Also express buses and the LIRR diverts many people from the subways from Woodhaven Boulevard to Jamaica that are Manhattan bound.

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.

1 hour ago, Robert Spire said:

How is that different than local trains dropping off a whole bunch of people at Roosevelt Avenue or Queens Plaza right now? 

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.

1 hour ago, Vulturious said:

Never mind 75 footers, would 60 footers even be able to make such a curve?

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.

4 hours ago, RandomRider0101 said:

6 hours ago, darkstar8983 said:

This is why I had proposed repurposing the MARTY's from Stop N Shop and Target to patrol the subway and stun people who farebeat with lasers or stun-guns, rubber bullets, darts, arrows, you name it. or have a special system like EZPass that scans a person's credit cards or phones inconspicuously and automatically detracts the subway fare from that person, similar to scanning EZPass

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.

8 hours ago, Robert Spire said:

 Queens Boulevard Express to Jamaica Center all times except late nights with select rush hour trains to 179th Street. Late nights  is Queens Boulevard Local to Jamaica Center. 

 Queens Boulevard Local to Forest Hills-71 Avenue all times except late nights. Both  and  run via 63rd Street.

 Queens Boulevard Express to Jamaica-179th Street all times except late nights. Late nights is Queens Boulevard Local to 179th Street.

 runs between 96th Street and Coney Island as Broadway Express all times except late nights skipping 49th Street with the  . Late nights  runs between Astoria-Ditmars Boulevard and Coney Island as Broadway Local via tunnel. 

 runs between Astoria-Ditmars Boulevard and Bay Ridge-95th Street all times except late nights. 

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?

29 minutes ago, darkstar8983 said:

get better security, and enforce payment

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.

On 9/2/2023 at 9:47 AM, nightmare402 said:

On 9/2/2023 at 4:44 AM, Wallyhorse said:

The late-night and weekend version of the  I would do is the exact same route you have for the .  It would be extended nights and weekends to Metropolitan from Canal Street to absorb the current late night and weekend shuttles as this  would be based out of East New York with in-service yard runs from and to Broadway Junction on the that are scheduled that way throughout the day.  Otherwise, this  would run to a rebuilt Canal Street on the (abandoned northbound platforms at Canal and Bowery on the  reopened) that would serve as the terminal on weekdays.

The I propose that would be Whitehall-71st/Continental is exactly the same as the  you propose.  This  would be 19/7 like the  currently is (with during peak hours, some trains ending and beginning on the tunnel level of Canal Street).

The "Yellow " I propose would serve as the 4th Avenue local via the tunnel, supplementing the in lower Manhattan and the to Astoria.

This (again!) was all originally proposed by me out of Bay Ridge politicians wanting the split because of it being the "rarely" in Brooklyn and this was to satisfy them. 
 

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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.

3 hours ago, Chris89292 said:

Does anyone here know if it’s possible for the  express to run on the middle track on the culver line, if so, should it be studied?

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.

1 hour ago, RTOMan said:

I’ll repeat this again…

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. 😉

1 hour ago, Comrade96 said:

elected officials don't call all the shots, even if they do, it most likely wont happen.

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