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The MTA has flirted with using magnetic portabarriers that snap on tunnel track partitioning walls to isolate track workers from active tracks. If that were viable, then that would minimize the need to shut down sections of trunk lines where there are three or more tracks.

A lot of people are poor: like 80% (c.f., Pareto Principle). Most of the world lack basic infrastructure that we take for granted (e.g., roads). A lot of folks in Japan also forget that the rest of the world is quite happy with the residue left by using just toilet paper instead of properly rinsing with a bidet. IMHO, the answer isn’t to lower your standards because nobody else is doing better.

If the website could somehow administer electric shocks for such posts, you would still see such posts.

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If the 2 Avenue tracks were to connect to Fulton Street tracks in Brooklyn, then one idea that ought to be considered is getting rid of the stupid merge at Canal Street. Because then Queens Boulevard trains have a third way get to Fulton Street—via 63 Street and 2 Avenue. Queens Boulevard express gets divvied up three ways, with a via 63 Street and 2 Avenue to Fulton Street World Trade Center terminal station serving both and trains Fulton Street serving local and / express There is no loss of overall TPH from Queens Boulevard express, though the distribution of service is reduced for 6 Avenue and 8 Avenue to make room for 2 Avenue service. The three merges at Canal Street and Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets are eliminated. Both Queens Boulevard and Fulton Street can cover more of Manhattan.

How do you explain the M20? It tracks the 7 and 8 Avenue lines from Fi-Di to Columbus Circle.

How could you leave out the most duplicitous of them all? Physically separate, identical names, and no disambiguating suffix! 23 Street: Lexington Avenue ; Broadway ; 6 Avenue ; 7 Avenue ; 8 Avenue 86 Street: Lexington Avenue ; 2 Avenue ; 4 Avenue ; 7 Avenue ; Central Park West ; Sea Beach What’s more, the stop at an 86 Street twice on some trips. The royalty of duplicates names. Every train must kiss the hand of 23 Street and 86 Street. I imagine 23 Street shares the crown if the ever gets extended down there and they don’t try to give it a suffix like 23 Street–Chelsea.

If there is no route distinction to make, then the only distinction they could make is express versus local. Why not simply ◆ (express) versus ● (local) with no letter inside?

But it should also be built to B Division widths as to avoid locking the branch to the A Division forever.

I lol’d right there.

Yeah. This shuttle’s current state is a quirk of history and politics. Maybe when the city is flush with money and some politician from the area wants to champion the cause like they did when the shuttle was about to be demolished for good. This segment of the Brighton having construction work and being cut off from Manhattan is a frequent enough occurrence—so much so that it factors into my consideration for getting a home along the line.

Doesn’t look like a Broadway line thread no more now, eh?

That’s fine and dandy for 2 Avenue, but Astoria is untouchable.

Could be an accident of history. Look at the 63 Street link to Queens Boulevard and tell me if you’d believe this was intended for use by express trains if you had only the track layout to go on. The straight rail—path of least resistance—is to run local service to 63 Street. Maybe that was really the intention when the plans were drawn up to make that connection, but almost certainly, this was done so to minimize excavation on either side of Northern Boulevard. What we are also sure about is that Dyre Avenue was supposed to be served by local trains from the lower half of White Plains Road. Ditto for the short segment from West 8 Street to Brighton Beach. Ditto for the section from Court Street to Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets. Ditto for the Archer Avenue branch, which was supposed to serve the and Queens Boulevard locals; and the tracks say just as much.

Freedom and Darwinism FTW

So blue is the new red.

Given all the development in the area, doesn’t that already seal the fate of the station? Those buildings are going to go up faster than the city can say “stop.” Those forever studies and committee meetings guarantee it. It’s going to be like the intersection of 23 Street and 44 Drive in Queens (Court Square station). The platforms are right under the platforms, but the buildings on the corners went up and nobody stopped to add a provision for a connection straight down. If you’re on the wrong end of the , have fun walking all the way down the length of the platform, then two-thirds of the length of the platform, and finally another corridor as long as the platform just to get to the . You’d walk about a third of a mile (0.33 mi) just to descend a hundred feet from the spot you were standing on for a transfer. That transfer between Broadway and 8 Avenue at Times Square–42 Street is a fifth of a mile (0.20 mi).

Knowing the MTA’s penchant for cutting, they’ll probably cut the tail tracks, leaving two nubs at the start of the 125 Street curve, and stash the trains on some express tracks whenever that starts existing. Those planned storage tracks at 14 Street are probably not happening either.

Just curious: who exactly constitute the working class?

But their rights!

Ah… Monday morning WTFs on the Brighton: the conductor whose “niceness” delays the train just enough so that the a**hole conductor can clear the train out of the station at Sheepshead Bay 3 seconds before the opens its doors.

Cryptographers, though, would say that a secure system is one in which everything—especially the internal workings—can be disclosed and it would still be secure.

Excellent public speaking skills. I’m impressed.

https://slate.com/business/2023/02/subway-costs-us-europe-public-transit-funds.html This is beating a dead horse, so I won’t make a separate thread about it. But as a consultant, I agree with the article’s findings. Government agencies have an institutional knowledge problem that is both the cause and effect of outsourcing to consultants.