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1 hour ago, JustTheSIR said:
Off topic question:
does anyone know the site that you could choose different times and see New York back in that time. I wanted to see how the Els went across Manhattan again but couldn’t find the site
https://maps.nyc.gov/then&now/
Check out the aerial photos from 1924, those are the earliest available in this website.
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Is there a way for me to get a specific train car number for a specific subway trip from the GTFS feed? I can see trip_id, but that doesn't tell me if it was car 9033 or 8667.
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I tried accesing the
service change map for this weeked, but I was directed to the MTA's internal mercury page:
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https://media.amtrak.com/introducing-amtrak-airo/
QuoteINTRODUCING AMTRAK AIRO
Offering a more sustainable way to travel and featuring a modern design with world-class amenities, Amtrak Airo will transform the travel experience. The new trains will elevate the journey with a focus on comfort and efficiency, providing even more advantages to traveling by rail.
The new trains will start debuting in 2026 and operate on routes throughout the country.Routes include the:
Amtrak Northeast Regional, Empire Service, Virginia Services, Keystone Service, Downeaster, Cascades, Maple Leaf, New Haven/Springfield Service, Palmetto, Carolinian, Pennsylvanian, Vermonter, Ethan Allen Express and Adirondack.
THIS is the future of Amtrak.
Key Features
- Elevated Experience: With its modern, spacious interior and panoramic windows, customers have an improved view of the best sights in the country while connecting to the passing landscape.
- A Greener Impact: The new trains are more fuel efficient and produce 90% less particulate emissions in diesel operations.
- Reduced Travel Times: The new trains will operate at speeds up to 125 mph and offer near seamless transition between power sources where time-consuming locomotive changes were previously required.
- Redesigned Café Car: More contemporary food service provides self-service options.
- Wayfinding: Signage creates a cleaner, more evident and accessible way to identify and differentiate cabins – both on the exterior and interior through a color-coded system.
- Spacious Seating:Each spacious seat prioritizes ergonomics, offers enhanced comfort with plenty of legroom, bigger and sturdier tray tables, moveable headrests and a dedicated cup and seatback tablet-holder.
- Business Class: Choice of double and single seats offer customers greater flexibility.
- Amenities: Features enhanced lighting, improved technology with digital customer information systems and touchless restroom controls, dedicated individual outlets, USB ports and onboard Wi-Fi.
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Delays
trains are running with delays in both directions after multiple incidents along the line.
What Happened?
Emergency teams responded to someone struck by a train at 59 St (Brooklyn)
We moved a train that had it's emergency brake cord pulled near 39 Av (Queens)
We addressed a mechanical problem on a train at 23 St (Manhattan).
EMS responded to a passenger in need of medical assistance at Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
Posted: 12/12/2022 10:38PM
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Real time arrival koisk at Mineola, from NICE Bus's Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl14zBbPoMd/
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The
are in a bit of a sh*tshow right now.
There was both a track fire and a train with mechanical problems at Chambers Street, along with a train with emergency brakes activated for a person who needed medical help at West 4th Street (that is what is written).
MTA just says avoid these lines.
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43 minutes ago, Cait Sith said:
173 more 40ft Novas and 116 40ft New Flyers have been confirmed for MTA Bus, this will basically wipe all of the NGs out of service.
Wondering what the numbering for the New Flyers would be.
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10 hours ago, Gotham Bus Co. said:
Has the whole system been discontinued?
Nope, it's still running. You can check on Transloc and see buses still moving:
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Saw this video of Redbird 9075 getting taken off property.
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39 minutes ago, JLiu15 said:
Update on these buses:
Their numbers will be 26002-26018, not 26001-26017. 26002 is still in training but will be in service this month. 26003-26009 will be delivered by the end of the year, while the remainder are still on the line.
26002-26015 will each feature a unique Princeton scheme while the remainder will be in the standard Tiger Transit scheme.
26002 plate: OYB6484 VIN: 5FYB8KJ02NC105964
So what is 26001? Ugh, it messes with my OCD, lol!
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9 hours ago, JLiu15 said:
https://www.masstransitmag.com/management/article/21285284/transdev-to-acquire-first-transit
It looks like Transdev will be acquiring First Transit. For those who may not know, they were already purchased by EQT about a year ago. This is the second time they've been sold in the past two years.
It will be interesting to see how it plays out. Will all First Transit operations and vehicles be transferred to Transdev, or will First Transit still operate in name, just that it's owned by Transdev (like it is now with First being owned by EQT). I'm mostly curious about what it means for university transit systems as they operate plenty of them (e.g. Rutgers, Emory, LSU, GSU, SCAD, UTK, Alabama, etc), mostly using ElDorado Axess/EZ Rider.
That's gonna be a hell of a transit and shuttle operator behemoth.
First Transit is also very big in the UK (it started out as Badgerline in the city of Bristol); this is the French taking over the English.
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I've heard the announcement change on the Jamaica R160Bs as well, so it's not just on the Lexington line trains.
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If you're doing this from a computer, don't copy the url of post; rather copy the url of the image. Go directly over the image, right click the image, and click on "Copy image address". Then paste that.
So instead of thisurl :
imgur.com/vEtWI3n
You end with a url that looks like this:
https://i.imgur.com/vEtWI3n.jpeg
When you copy it and paste it directly here, it should automatically convert it into the photo:
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3 minutes ago, ttcsubwayfan said:
Hey guys! It's been 8 years since I last went to New York, but it's in the cards for me to do so again. To that end I was wondering if there are any locals that would be able to help me with selecting some best spots for photography.
I am looking for recommendations for the best stations on the B/Q and D in south Brooklyn for photos of R46/68/68A cars. Ideally quieter stations but not ones that are the sketchy. I am especially wondering about Prospect Park as that would be a good location to get R68 and A shots in one spot.
I am also looking to find stations in downtown or midtown Manhattan that have sufficient space out at the end of the platform to snap acceptable stationary shots of trains on the 1/2/3, 4/5/6, B/D/F/M. I am wondering if anyone has any specific recommendations.
Thank you in advance to anyone who can assist!
West 8th Street, Sheepshead Bay, Kings Highway, and Beverley Road are also pretty good stations on the Brighton.
On the West End, 9th Avenue is a must. 18th Avenue is pretty good, although I fan the Brighton way more, so I can't speak for other West End stops.
34th Street-Herald Square has enough space on specific ends.
It gets harder with the 1/2/3/4/5/6 because the platforms are almost exactly the same length as the trains. I do think South Ferry has decent space.
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3 hours ago, Lex said:
I was going to have a long post about skip-stop service, but all I will say is that I have a hard time imagining the MTA will try to maintain it for too much longer. Hell, the fact that all trains stop at Alabama Avenue -- one of the weakest stations -- is, to me, a sign that skip-stop subway service in NYC is not long for this world.
Anyway, I think that's enough about that. I'd argue we're beginning to derail the thread.
I heard Alabama had been added for the workers at ENY Yard and the depot.
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4 minutes ago, trainfan22 said:
........Yes, for some odd reason the NY Post photoshopped an
onto an R62. Link to article which is just as bizarre (women in green CGI suits robbing people)
https://nypost.com/2022/10/02/thieves-wearing-neon-green-snatch-teens-purse-at-nyc-subway/
The exact same photo, except with a
, also from the NY Post.
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15 minutes ago, ABOGbrooklyn said:
I mean is aren't these the same buses that the coach bus companies use. Don't the side of the bus open for luggages?
Luggage bays are opened at stations, so the bay doors are not sticking out on the road, which would be disastrous. Racks on the sides of a moving bus would be a dangerous animal.
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2 hours ago, trainfan22 said:
Those old cars are called the R46.
line uses R68/68As regularly, odd that you haven't seen one recently. The 68s are actually more common on the now than when the line had R160s.
The
and 
run more 46s now than R68As and R68s. There was a shift some months ago when I noticed this.
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1 hour ago, trainfan22 said:
Was nice to ride an R46 via the 6th Ave express. Unfortunately the train stalled out at 42nd - Bryant Park and they are investigating what's wrong with the train right now.
....train just got removed from service. I hope they announce what's wrong with the train, as someone intrested in mechanical inner workings of trains this stuff intrigues me lol.
Train took power, moved a couple feet then stopped.
I was on the
behind, they sent us local.
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3 hours ago, 7-express said:
FYI, bus 1333 operating as the 1545 QM2 trip to Bay Terrace wasn't showing up on BusTime while in Manhattan. It only showed up again once it entered Queens. Not sure if this is a bad GPS or it was having a bad signal in Manhattan. Just thought I'd note it here.
Happens a lot when they cross the Queensboro bridge. I've seen it with the Q101 and Q32.
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7 minutes ago, N6 Limited said:
The point is that it’s a money grab. If no one sped then they’d lower the speed limit even more to generate revenue, then cry about “congestion” and “decreased bus speeds”.
It's not much of a money grab of this is rarely enforced though, is it? It's actually not as enforced as it should be. When the speed limit was higher (before Vision Zero), many people were still speeding, and enforcement was just as lax.
When the first bus lanes came into service, people said the same thing the city using them as money grabs. Fast forward to today, and enforcement is nonexistent and buses still struggle, especially along 125th Street. Not much of a cash grab there. All this fuss about nothing.
Almost like someone has driver's backs within DOT......
7 minutes ago, N6 Limited said:I-287 the one interstate from Staten Island to the Bronx that connects all 5 Boroughs, works as a Manhattan bypass and as a collector/distributor to most the Bridges and Tunnels to Manhattan, it also connects to the Long Island Expressway which is the main and only east-west expressway across Queens and Nassau (Suffolk has Sunrise Highway), etc.
The Bushwick and Cross-Brooklyn Expressways were not built and so the BQE gets traffic that would have used those highways as well.
Imagine building these highways in the 1960s and 1970s through low-income East New York, Williamsburg, and Maspeth. Yes, let's bulldoze hundreds and hundreds of apartment buildings, houses, and homes. That would have destroyed these neighborhoods.
Each time these highway genuises built them, the excuse was always that they would reduce congestion. Years later, each of those highways became saturated, and traffic was brought to standstill. Then these geniuses would justify the construction of more highways because of that congestion. And this pattern repeated.
I guarantee that these unbuilt expressways would have been as congested as the BQE is today. Then what would have been the excuse?
6 minutes ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:Increased congestion on the BQE is actually related to the congestion in the CBDs, at least during the pandemic anyway, as people that used to take public transportation have been driving into Manhattan. They have been the ones clogging up the HOV lane as well. Those that are anti-car and see no issue with the poor service the
has been providing will make blanket statements that Congestion Pricing is good because it gets cars off of the road, without saying anything about the need to hold the accountable for running service that incentivizes transit use. I support Congestion Pricing in theory, but this plan in particular I don't support, not unless it involves major changes, particularly for people that drive because they have crap transit options. That means things like better transit late hours and off-peak, since this plan would be in place 24/7.
I'm on board with this, although I am not very optimistic with the whole idea that a majority car drivers would take transit if only transit was better. Realistically, it would be marginal.
I already see people complaining about having too many big bulky buses on the road. That is legit something I have heard from drivers I've been with. "If only there weren't that many buses on the road, we would have more space".
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26 minutes ago, B35 via Church said:
What's not making sense in this discussion is this pitting/comparing of congestion on the BQE, compared to that of congestion in Manhattan....
Let's run with this assertion that congestion on the BQE is worse.... It still does not mean that congestion isn't a significant issue in (either of) Manhattan's CBD's.... It's not some shutdown counterargument....
One thing I'm going to make clear is that I'm not in support of congestion pricing, so the contrary isn't my reason for saying any of this... I'm saying this because that argument doesn't amount to much of anything in the grand scheme of things... As was said, congestion's bad all throughout this city.... So what is really with this na na na boo boo shit?
"So my point is really the congestion on the BQE is worse than in Manhattan where they will be charging because traffic is supposedly so bad there."
He thinks the city is lying through its teeth about CBD congestion, that's what I have a problem with. I walk around Midtown and stand on the corners to observe too often to just simply ignore that part. My man cherry-picks too much.
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service change map for this weeked, but I was directed to the MTA's internal mercury page:
trains are running with delays in both directions after multiple incidents along the line.
are in a bit of a sh*tshow right now.
, also from the NY Post.
run more 46s now than R68As and R68s. There was a shift some months ago when I noticed this.
behind, they sent us local.
has been providing will make blanket statements that Congestion Pricing is good because it gets cars off of the road, without saying anything about the need to hold the
MTA set to pay nearly 3 billion for old, overweight LIRR, Metro North cars
in MTA Railroads
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Alon doesn't pull that information out of his ass. Time savings from EMU acceleration and deacceleration vs. Diesel performance has been studied thoroughly.
Has it crossed your minds that maybe American railroad experts aren't as great as as Japanese or European railroad experts?...