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6 hours ago, VIP said:

Some users give way too much information about these trains and TA workers wonder why the train buffs or vandals know exactly what to mess with when they break into cabs… all the sensitive information and details about operations should be kept confidential. 

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.

On 3/16/2023 at 3:12 PM, ABCDEFGJLMNQRSSSWZ said:

Thank you!

Heres the video; I start at 1:05:45

I think I did good considering I wasn’t reading off a script, though I think I struggled with some redundancy and phrasing at times. Fun experience.

College admissions is generally an unfortunate process - no matter what someone is going to be unhappy and a lot of outcomes feel arbitrary.

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.

On 2/23/2023 at 12:40 AM, ABCDEFGJLMNQRSSSWZ said:

Usually, MTA is pretty good about doing provisions

lol. The former IRT, BMT, and IND were prolific, granting us a bounty of provisions to use. The new entity called the MTA is much less so, and it’s squandered provisions on suboptimal works like the 21 Street connector.

2 hours ago, T to Dyre Avenue said:

Extending the  to Bay Ridge? Not so much, especially because it would likely require tearing up a part of the Oculus, which the PA will throw a hissy fit over.

The tracks are on the east side of Church Street though, and even if it were under the west side, the Oculus structure doesn’t encroach on the road. It’s perfectly doable.

The Broadway-Boradway extension on the other hand…

On 2/19/2023 at 12:57 AM, ABCDEFGJLMNQRSSSWZ said:

Is it possible the MTA runs out of letters in the future, and if so what do you think they'd do.

The emoji series, of course.

• 🍩 — the doughnut train, sponsored by Dunkin
• 🌮 — the taco train, sponsored by Taco Bell
• 🍆 — the eggplant train, sponsored by the American Eggplant Council

16 hours ago, Vulturious said:

There's a planned service change that's forcing all three to run local.

More to it than that. There were more problems further down along Sea Beach.

14 hours ago, Calvin said:

On the way home from the city, I was on that said  running via the Brighton line. Got on at Prince St waiting for the  but took that Nancy instead because the clocks show the next  was 20 minutes away. As I got off at Brighton Beach, that said  was now 30 minutes away. 4th Av must be really bad with all that 15 minute traffic each line. 

Pretty good speed: less than 30 minutes from DeKalb Avenue to Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (diagonal line added by me). But the was certainly not 30 minutes behind the .

My  is running via Brighton express to Coney Island… something is seriously wrong with 4 Avenue right now and there’s only the local tracks available to serve 3 routes.

On 1/24/2023 at 5:48 PM, Kamen Rider said:

The problem with that is the space between the Q runs is for the T.

Yeah, but you have a whole two decades in between the capacity need and the ever showing up. Might as well add another service—say a detour via 6 Avenue local to Lower East Side–2 Avenue—to fill the gap in the meantime.

19 hours ago, Siemenslover said:

I read elsewhere that 63rd must be an express due to requirements from its funding source. Also, 36th st merge would probably cause the same issues. 

It could have been a worse clusterf***—connecting it only to the express tracks.

The original plan with a Northern Boulevard station (possibly plus a transfer to Queens Plaza) and the super express would have given what the funders wanted without the bottlenecks.

20 hours ago, trainfan22 said:

This is common on the weekend on the from what I noticed, line headways seems normal on weekdays from my experiences.

Not to/from Coney Island… I’m talking about rush hour and midday weekdays. Sometimes I wonder if a bunch of them just get put in at 86 Street directly from the yard.

At least this one was publicized. The service was quietly reduced a while ago. Trains are like 15 minutes apart sometimes. That was unheard of except on the , , or night time service.

4 hours ago, CyclonicTrainLookout said:

Reductions to the  lines Monday to Fridays due to overall low ridership during weekdays (thanks to hybrid WFH options becoming more of a norm).

That’s basically my situation. WFH shaves 2 hours off commuting per day. I go in once a week for the office culture and that’s about it.

This is going to have ripple effects. If office works go in less, there isn’t enough business to prop up the population of restaurants in the CBD, and so those workers get reduced as well. Who know what the new equilibrium will be.

Sucks for the though. Service between Kings Highway and Coney Island is already horrendous. If they cut anything, I hope it’s the short turns.

9 hours ago, Lex said:

I would expect no more from Eric Adams.

I read that as "that's all he'll ever do about this problem."

Good f***ing god. 3 consecutive  trains terminating at Kings Highway. Has nobody noticed the shitty service in supervision?

On 10/28/2022 at 2:34 AM, Trainmaster5 said:

I’ve seen many people posting about being delayed at Nostrand Avenue or President Street for minutes almost daily. The reason why it happens is because that’s what the timetable calls for. My instructor went to Operations and Planning after the Trainmaster title was phased out. He wrote schedules, especially for the  line. He showed us how every pm rush was handled on the N/B Lex from Borough Hall to Grand Central. Between 4:45 and 5:25 pm x amount of trains were scheduled to head through the corridor.

I thought this was common knowledge. It’s not rare to hear a conductor announce that a train is being held because it was ahead of schedule or to maintain even spacing of trains. In some cases it was obvious to anyone doing the AM/PM commutes like when southbound trains were held at Bay Parkway or northbound trains held at 59 Street during the Sea Beach track reconstruction period.

Basically reads to the layperson: “we do not intend trips to be that quick because the average trip does not meet those high standards, so we have to add minutes to pad your commute.”

On 10/28/2022 at 2:34 AM, Trainmaster5 said:

What I’m trying to point out is that the trains were not delayed even though some riders thought they were.

That’s a technicality. People riding the trains are only interested in shortening their commute.

I’m not saying the system as it runs is unjustifiable, but from a marketing/PR perspective, this does not come off positively.

8 hours ago, BM5 via Woodhaven said:

Freudian Slip? 

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Part Suspended

trains are not running between Forest Hills-71 Av and Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer / Jamaica-179 St.

We're investigating a mechanical problem on a train leaving Kew Gardens-Union Tpke.

Travel Alternatives:

For service between Forest Hills-71 Av and Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer, take Q60-SBS buses.

For service between Forest Hills-71 Av and Jamaica-179 St, take Q60 buses to Hillside Ave and transfer to Q43 buses.

LIRR is cross-honoring Metrocard holders at no additional charge at Jamaica, Forest Hills, Kew Gardens and Penn Station.

Posted: 10/15/2022 03:14PM

There are 4 tracks, and one train screws up the whole line? Since it’s CBTC now, could the tracks not be dynamically reconfigured for service using any of the remaining tracks?

5 hours ago, Lex said:

Speaking of poor designs, I'd really like to bring up 142nd Street. Instead of proposing a flying junction with southbound  trains diving under  trains, they thought it better to have northbound  trains dive under southbound  trains, which is painfully stupid of the contractor.

I have not seen these proposals, but it does make sense from the perspective of causing the least disruption. The work to sink the tunnel to 145 Street disrupts only the ’s remaining two stations. The can continue running uninterrupted for the most part while the construction is ongoing with the final disruption being to shut down service for connecting the tracks at the new junction.

On the other hand, if the southbound tunnel from the Bronx had to be sunk, then both the and would be disrupted. The would be disrupted by the Harlem River, and both would be disrupted again when the junction finally gets connected.

1 hour ago, Vulturious said:

One of those content in that study is the new the 8 which is basically the  to New Lots.

It's quite the interesting concept.

Makes sense somewhat. If the Lexington and 7 Avenue routes are going to cross/merge, the might as well do it so that they’re getting something out of the merge. In the case of the and red , they’ll be serving stations together to the end of the New Lots Avenue branch instead of crossing paths for no other reason than to get to the other side. Any merges that do happen will be easier: trains on the local track can be queued from Nostrand Avenue to Kingston Avenue where they don’t hold back trains headed to Flatbush Avenue. In the reverse, and trains don’t wait in the tunnel, but are platformed at Utica Avenue while waiting for a merge window.

If any trains use the expanded yard as their new “base,” it would be nice if they stayed in service to 9 Avenue (assuming the normal route doesn’t include 9 Avenue) like the s do along Sea Beach.

rolling into Atlantic Avenue from the bridge. Sign on rear end.

21 hours ago, Lex said:

It's that, finally canning 145th Street, or finally extending the platforms to handle 10 cars.

Looking at the RFW videos, it seems to me that there is quite more leeway for a southward extension than a northward extension. Immediately north of 145 Street is an S-curve. It could be severe enough for the northbound track that gap fillers would be required. Looking at the platform from the south, the junction doesn’t seem too close to the station.

To all the old folks lacking the sophistication to understand that an express train does not go faster when it skips 0 stops, and that it often stalls between stations if the next one is the last stop… 🤦‍♂️

This lady at Sheepshead Bay was facing the when both the and trains entered the station simultaneously. She turned around to get on the to Brighton Beach even though the opened its doors first.

7 hours ago, Maxwell179 said:

It’s nothing about being worried about them or having sympathy. Yes if they get hurt that’s on them, oh well , they shouldn’t have been doing it but they’re still kids, I  would not like to see kids dying or getting hurt nor would I wish that on them. They don’t deserve to pay a price wtf , that’s mad weird especially since you’ve witnessed it and what it does to people , why the f**k would you want that. “ But that’s just my opinion, carry on 🤷🏾‍♂️ “

Natural selection is cruel. Misfits don’t live. That’s just the reality of it.

IMHO, she did a lot of things I wished Cuomo would have done, and stopped doing things that Cuomo did do (e.g., the backwards Air Train).