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1 hour ago, BrooklynBus said:

You obviously don’t drive so you don’t know lanes were eliminated under the promenade by our former mayor as a way of extending its life rather than having it reconstructed because it’s falling apart from the weight of all the trucks that use it daily. Scott Stringer actually wanted two lanes in each direction to be a permanent solution so that the congestion never goes away. This has added at least 15 minutes to everyone’s trip daily for those who use it or no longer use it by having to take an alternate longer route. The new Kosciusko Bridge with the fourth lane actually saves about five to seven minutes, but the net is still a longer trip.

Uh, I've been on cars on the BQE before and after they got rid of those lanes. Traffic is always shit. The elimination has had a marginal effect. It isn't the root cause.

If those lanes are returned and the BQE is repaired, congestion still wouldn't be solved. Within a short time, the traffic and congestion would return to being the same as it is today. Then what?

That's the way induced demand works. Making it easier to drive only encourages more drivers and thus more traffic.

4 minutes ago, BrooklynBus said:

The GPS never should have sent me into Manhattan. It did so because going into Manhattan was quicker than staying in Brooklyn. 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. 

And yet there are no bike lanes or pedestrian plazas on the BQE. So what's the excuse for the congestion on the BQE?

24 minutes ago, N6 Limited said:

They don’t care, as long as they can dig into our pockets, notice how the speed cameras are 24/7 now.

How about not speeding? Simple as that. Too many dolts on the road who think they're the Stig.

On 8/27/2022 at 9:20 AM, BrooklynBus said:

A few weeks ago, I had to pick up my car from Long Island City and drive back to Brooklyn in mid afternoon. I don’t believe this BS regarding traffic being the worst in the Manhattan CBD. The BQE has been moving at 5 mph between 7 AM and 10 PM in parts since the closing of a lane beneath the promenade. Guess how my GPS told me the quickest way to get home was?

it routed me into Manhattan via the 59 St Bridge, the FDR, and Brooklyn Bridge, then the BQE, Gowanus, and Belt to get home. I was really skeptical about going into Manhattan when I didn’t have to. The GPS was correct. It took only 3 minutes to go over the 59 St bridge, another three minutes to get on the FDR, and a steady 30 mph on the FDR. The Brooklyn Bridge took about seven minutes because a lane was closed for roadwork. The trip was 15 minutes quicker than if I just took the BQE without going into Manhattan. 

You never actually went into the heart of the CBD. All you did was skirt around on the FDR. That's BS on your part.

What's the deal with the J99? I saw one on tracker earlier in the morning and now there are none on the route. I have tracked it during the weekdays; does it stop running on the weekends or something?

Right now the Planned Service Change says this:

No J between Crescent St and Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer
Sat 3:45 AM to Sun 10 PM until Sep 5*
J service runs between Broad St and Crescent St. (see a map of this service change)

Shuttle Bus

Free shuttle buses make stops between Crescent St and 121 St and connect with the E at Jamaica-Van Wyck.

Transfer between J trains and Shuttle Busbuses at Crescent St.

For Sutphin Blvd-Archer Av-JFK Airport and Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer, take the E instead.

Transfer between E trains and Shuttle Busbuses at Jamaica-Van Wyck.

Travel tip:

For JFK AirTrain, use the Howard Beach-JFK Airport A station via transfer at Broadway Junction.

*The last weekend of this service change ends on Labor Day, Monday at 10 PM.

Note: J99 bus service replaced by shuttle buses during this time.

I don't understand. Why does the J99 shuttle bus need replacement.........by shuttle buses?

Last weekend it said the J99 wasn't running. So what gives?

4 minutes ago, Lex said:

As an aside, am I the only one that sees this and thinks of the CTA?

The MTA got them straight from Nova and not as demoes, I just wonder why they chose to have the CTA scheme. Maybe it was easier for Nova to just apply the same scheme instead of making a new one for the MTA?

7 hours ago, Bx41 boi said:

did anyone even remember the LFS Classic Existed in NYC or is it just my dad who remembered

995 was a demonstrator from 1998 that was then sold Verreault Transport in Quebec.

956 and 957 were assigned to MTA Bridges and Tunnels.

52 minutes ago, Amtrak41 said:

I do not, but it's long overdue. It gave NYC area railfans and advocates a bad name.

I suspect the antiquated software combined with the owner's refusal to do any needed moderation to throw some nasty trolls off who wished harm on others on a regular basis if not just cussed them out, which would get them thrown off any other reponsible social media. Larry may have simply decided to finally throw in the towel and not babysit a bunch of nasty, overgrown 3rd graders. Subchat became the last refuge for such people, and many others have quit using it over the years due to some behaviors. What needed doing was to get rid of OTChat, whose hostility and grudges spilled over to Subchat board, throw 3 or 4 people off entirely, and it might have been far more civil. 

Olog-Hai was LITERALLY a troll. I mean, the name refers to a race of trolls from the Lord of the Rings.

40 minutes ago, Kriston Lewis said:

This is a fantasy map.

Yeah, I don't know if he realized that...

7 hours ago, Calvin said:

Future layout of the 149 St-Grand Concourse station on the  which maybe Hostos. The elevators are at the left end on each side, 2/5 and 4. 

There's also a whole new Metro-North station on the Harlem Line.

2 hours ago, BwyKingsbridgeCar said:

I can be mistaken, but I think Hudson Bergan and Newark have different rail and wheel profiles. No way will NJT resurrect Lincoln Highway service. PATH connects the two city centers well.

About twenty years ago, I rode NJT 1 eastbound and "toured" the Hudson County Correctional Facility, where I believe the Federal streetcar went.

Yeah, the wheel profiles were different; the Hudson trains would have been derailing.

Newark's 117 and 118 were actually original to Hudson-Bergen as 2001 and 2019, while 119-121 were supposed to have been delivered to Hudson as 2055-2057 but never used.

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Am I understanding correctly that the BxM4C is finally getting eliminated?

Someone pointed out on my Flickr that the former D60HF #132 was not #5557, but rather #5573. I checked the license plate and it does actually check out.

Address of the Union City Public Works:   410 27th St, Union City, NJ 07087

8 minutes ago, CenSin said:

Any institution that’s affixed to a station name ought to earn it though.

For the CUNYs: Baruch’s 73% graduation rate is 1.5 times the national average. City College’s 60% graduation rate is just a few points above average. Hunter’s 56% is average. Medgar Evers is at 21%. City Tech is at 18%.

To compare with two of the best institutions whose names grace the subway stations: NYU has a graduation rate of 88%, and Columbia is still better at 96%.

So is this an intellegence test now? Graduation rate should have nothing to do with it. These are points of interests, they serve as landmarks.

Yeshiva University has a graduation rate around 80%, Manhattan College and Baruch are at 70%. I don't see them on the map, yet they have higher rates than the Hunter or my own CCNY. Why are they not on the map?

Or what happens if Hunter or Brooklyn Colleges were to dip below 50%? I guess that should be grounds for removal than. Why would anyone want a so-so college on the map.......

9 hours ago, Theli11 said:

I just don't see how a College functions as a better name for a subway station. 149 St - Grand Concourse makes sense because the station is on.. 149 St and Grand Concourse. Hostos isn't a landmark, doesn't tell you where you are and it's not really an attraction or popular destination. It's not like City College or Columbia both of which are big campus' that are known in NYC. Hostos, in my opinion, isn't a college that warrants renaming a station after it. If it is, then where does the renaming/adding on names end? Chambers St - BMCC? DeKalb Av - LIU? Van Cortlandt Park - Manhattan College?  

......It has been used before.

The 1972 maps shows this:

"Van Cortlandt Park-Manhattan College-242 St-Broadway"

Burnside Avenue used to be Burnside Avenue-NYU, but then NYU sold it off to CUNY and that campus became Bronx Community College. Strangely, that campus was pretty far away from the actual station, further than all the other college stations. So even back then, distance could be somewhat flexible.

William Padron on SubChat is pointing out that 181st Street used to have Yeshiva University for a short while.

http://www.subchat.com/readflat.asp?Id=1605606&p=3

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?/img/maps/system_1972.jpg

Hostos is pretty well known in the Bronx and it's smack dab at the entrance of the station. Hunter College isn't a big campus, it's similar to Hostos, so size isn't an excuse.

I'd be fine adding universities and colleges to the names; the precedent is there. There were already 7 of them before Medgar Evers and a bunch are CUNYs.

Take 33rd Street on the Flushing line. They can add LaGuardia College to the name; it is a pretty well known college, and it would be a much better secondary name than Rawson Street, which is a useless decorative name with no relevancy for anyone except history cranks.

19 minutes ago, YankeesPwnMets said:

Lord knows the number of issues our city is dealing with yet the Assembly stays wasting their time renaming subway stations in honor of irrelevant colleges

What's so irrelevant about this college? Besides, do you guys even take a look at all the bills? I doubt you or anyone here takes the time to see what bills are being proposed. There dozens of them a day. A bill like this is actually pretty routine.

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Saw this of FB; a bill to rename 149th Street-Grand Concourse to 149th Street-Hostos.

https://www.billtrack50.com/BillDetail/1442140

I am fine with this. Now I know at which of the two Grand Concourse stations Hostos is at.

There were already 7 stations with a college/university in the name before the two Medgar Evers additions in 2020. Hostos would be the 10th such station.

137th Street-City College of New York
116th Street-Columbia University
68th Street-Hunter College
8th Street-New York University
Bedford Park Boulevard-Lehman College
Flatbush Avenue-Brooklyn College
Franklin Avenue-Medgar Evers College
Jay Street-MetroTech
President Street-Medgar Evers College

What the hell happened to the Manhattan Bus Map? Damn thing is all pixelated. It's like someone took a screenshot of the original PDF map, so that when you zoom in, the lines become all fuzzy. Or maybe it was rendered badly.

The subway lines are pixelated and some, like the 7, have different colors.

The Williamsburg Bridge is atrocious.

Is it now the Meatpucking District?

https://new.mta.info/map/5391

1 hour ago, 46Dover said:

I think it’s those EZ Ride shuttle buses (the ones that serve Willowbrook Mall to that food factory behind I-80 in Wayne, and I think I’ve seen them in Newark as well)

Didn't know this even existed, I'm looking at their routes right now:

232: Kearny

241: One Harrison

273: Harmon Meadow

555: Rutherford-Lyndhurst

566: The Monarch

610: Route 10

646: Fairfield-West Caldwell

843: HelloFresh

Night Owls

636: East Orange

647: Irvington

691/692/693/694: Newark

Wave Shuttle

The open gangway R211T is complete:

One of the new M125 signs:

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https://www.post-gazette.com/news/transportation/2022/06/09/port-authority-allegheny-county-new-name-pittsburgh-regional-transit-prt-pat-buses-t-light-rail/stories/202206090131

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Goodbye Port Authority, hello Pittsburgh Regional Transit: Agency unveils new name, branding

ED BLAZINA

JUN 9, 2022 12:39 PM

Looking for public transit in Pittsburgh?

Keep an eye out for slate blue signs and vehicles with yellow circles with the letters PRT for Pittsburgh Regional Transit.

That’s Port Authority's new name and slogan.

The transit agency announced the new approach at a news conference Thursday morning at the Gateway T station in Downtown Pittsburgh. The rebranding effort is designed to bring uniformity in color scheme, signs and transit stops to the system, making it easier for locals and outsiders alike to navigate their way around the area.

“We stand at the very beginning of a new era,” agency CEO Katharine Eagan Kelleman said. “We’ve rethought everything.”

In addition to the physical changes, the authority also is revamping its approach to customer service. Operators and other employees who deal with the public will go through training classes to improve their interaction with the public, beginning with new employees.

The rebranding process actually was developed more than two years ago by research firm Campos and branding agency Red House Communications under a $544,000 contract awarded in 2018. They talked with riders at transit stops and conducted a series of focus groups to see what riders expect from the transit system.

The plan was finished in early 2020 but was put on the shelf when the pandemic reached this area and decimated transit ridership. The plan was tweaked slightly, authority spokesman Adam Brandolph said, but the basic needs for clean, reliable and courteous service remained the same.

Initially, a few buses will be wrapped with the new logo and color scheme, but the program will roll out over an extended time to hold down the cost. The first new, fully branded buses will likely be available beginning in September, and schedules and many signs will change according to their regular schedule.

"You're not going to see everything change overnight," Mr. Brandolph said. "We're trying to be very efficient in our costs. But people are going to know the new brand — the new Port Authority."

The agency also will conduct a media campaign to promote its new name beginning later this month and lasting about two months, said chief communications officer Jim Ritchie. A follow-up will occur in the fall.

The authority had one of its rebranded buses on display Thursday outside the station on Liberty Avenue, and workers were changing the sign outside the station from Port Authority to Pittsburgh Regional Transit.

Ms. Kelleman said many people had suggested the agency return to it roots by adopting Pittsburgh Area Transit — similar to PAT, as it was known for many years — but she said the agency wanted to get away from any possible link to “port,” which suggests a water-based service.

The overall goal is to make transit easier to use, Ms. Kelleman said.

“People here are going places, and for many years, Port Authority has been the way they got there. We want people to use Pittsburgh Regional Transit, not because it’s the only option but because it’s the best option.”

Overall, the rebranding is expected to cost about $772,000.

 

A rendering of the new scheme:

https://www.portauthority.org/inside-Pittsburgh-Regional-Transit/prt/

2 hours ago, BM5 via Woodhaven said:

There was no reason to change the Bx18's color. In fact, that brown meshes with the red & purple on University Avenue (and not in a good way). The lime provided a contrast there.

That brown also mixes up with the yellow......