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They put up apartments in that stretch, so it would very hard, unless an alignment and station underground under a different street is chosen.
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40 minutes ago, JLiu15 said:
https://instagram.com/stories/enc.bus/2688819074933989319?utm_medium=copy_link
Based on this photo from the ENC Instagram, looks like they are prototyping and testing a 45’ Axess BRT now.
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34 minutes ago, Gotham Bus Co. said:
Is there a difference any more between N40 and N41? The route paths look identical on NICE's web site.
There used to be, but now these two are the exact same route. It's almost like they kept one extra route to say they didn't cut a route or something.
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I was about to say why is he posting about a NICE bus in this thread, but Zerega changes everything.
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An update to this. The Vivarail train is being tested as part of the Pop-Up Metro project at the Rockhill Trolley Museum in Pennsylvania.
https://rrdc.com/op_usa_pop_up_metro.html
https://www.riverrailphoto.com/popupmetro
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I visited Utah for the first time recently. I saw the SD160 LRV, which I had never seen despite being the workhorse for many American light rail systems outside the Northeast. I also had the chance to visit Bryce Canyon, which I have to say is one of the greatest sights I've seen in my life.
There was also a Poughkeepsie Transit Gillig Phantom on the highway to SLC. Nothing better to remind me of New York.
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44 minutes ago, T to Dyre Avenue said:
Now you say there's an issue with extending a elevated subway through residential areas. For what, all of two blocks from Ditmars Blvd to the ConEd plant? Once you get past 20th Avenue, there are no more residences. The extension can run over the surface parking lots (is the "diminished quality of life" of cars something the MTA and PA should really be worried about?) until it gets onto 19th Ave. Then it can continue east on 19th toward Hazen St.
And I wouldn't call 19th Avenue a residential area. Judging by the aerial of that area, it looks like anything but a residential area. It's mostly surface parking lots and distribution centers. How would a elevated
train on a concrete structure mess up the quality of life for said lots and distribution centers?
If it runs from Ditmars to 19th Avenue, then the only residential area affected is 31st Street for two whole avenues. If is built the same way the Frankford Elevated was rebuilt over Market Street, then there would be only a single row of columns on 31st and no need to extend the existing elevated's style.
This section of Market Street from curb to curb is 61 feet.
31st Street from curb to curb is also 61 feet.
As you have pointed out, once it reaches 19th Avenue, it's all industry. The problem isn't that it can't be physically done. The problem are the Astoria NIMBYs.
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https://www.amny.com/transit/hochul-seeking-alternatives-to-laguardia-airtrain/
QuoteHochul seeks ‘alternatives’ to LaGuardia AirTrain
By Kevin Duggan
Posted on October 4, 2021Governor Kathy Hochul said Monday that she wants the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to look at alternatives to the proposed $2.1 billion LaGuardia AirTrain — casting further doubt on the future of the pet project pushed by her disgraced predecessor Andrew Cuomo.
“New Yorkers deserve world-class transportation to world-class airports. I have asked the Port Authority to thoroughly examine alternative mass transit solutions for reducing car traffic and increasing connectivity to LaGuardia Airport,” Hochul said in an Oct. 4 statement. “We must ensure that our transportation projects are bold, visionary, and serve the needs of New Yorkers. I remain committed to working expeditiously to rebuild our infrastructure for the 21st century and to create jobs – not just at LaGuardia, but at all of our airports and transit hubs across New York.”
The announcement comes after Hochul said last week she would “examine” the plans to build a 2.3-mile elevated rail line between the Queens airport and the Mets-Willets Point stations on the 7 line and the Long Island Rail Road.
The project got the go-ahead from the Federal Aviation Administration back in July, following Cuomo’s resignation in August, a growing slate of local politicians and advocates have called on Hochul to postpone or derail the pricey people mover entirely.
The project has drawn criticism for not offering a one-seat ride from the airport to Manhattan, and for taking travelers headed to the island the wrong way east before they transfer.
Other options that would have offered a one-seat ride, but which were dismissed during an environmental review, included extending the N/W subway line, building out better bus service, or launching ferry service.
Environmentalist and neighborhood advocates took their concerns before the US Court of Appeals and sued the FAA and the Port Authority last month for failing to consider other possible transit options.
The Port Authority’s executive director Rick Cotton maintained last Thursday during the bi-state agency’s monthly board meeting that the AirTrain was the best way forward due to it not cutting through any residential neighborhoods, but said officials would provide “whatever review Governor Hochul desires.”
Port Authority spokesman Thomas Topousis referred a request for comment back to Cotton’s statements from last week.
My feeling: the AirTrain will probably cancelled, but there will probably be no Astoria line extension either.
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5 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:
In the 25 years I've been driving in this city, the amount of reckless delivery bikes + commuter bikes are way more then reckless drivers.
You're intentionally mixing these two things up:
Traffic and safety.
I wrote:
In my 28 years of living here, I have yet to see GRIDLOCK on 57th Street or on Canal Street caused by bikes.
You wrote:
In the 25 years I've been driving in this city, the amount of RECKLESS delivery bikes + commuter bikes are way more then reckless drivers.
Notice I talk about traffic, you talk about safety. Yet this thread is about traffic gridlock on the Holland Tunnel. You're dancing around the traffic issue to bring up a red herring.
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1 minute ago, Lawrence St said:
I have to disagree with you and agree more with Spectacular.
Trying to FORCE people to use public transit by taking away travel lanes to include bike lanes is not the way to go about it AT ALL. Not to mention some of these bike lane designs are incredibly stupid (i.e Broadway in the Bronx north of 242nd St). The amount of times I've seen an accident happen from drivers coming off the Henry Hudson Pkwy and onto Broadway northbound with bikes flying down the path is unfortunately to many, there's a massive blindspot. But NYCDOT won't care unless the bikes complain.
Traffic is going to rise regardless of whether bike lanes exist or not. Every time space is made for cars, that space is taken up by cars in no time, and we go back to square one with even more traffic. Over 70 years of street engineering has shown that.
The root cause of traffic congestion in the city is cars, not bikes. In my 28 years of living here, I have yet to see gridlock on 57th Street or on Canal Street caused by bikes.
18 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:The simplest way to put it is bikes are at war with cars. And I side more with the cars, which is why I will never drive in Manhattan again. They are incredibly reckless and don't care about anyone other then themselves. There's this bike dude on TikTok who cuses out everyone along the bike lane in TSQ and it's annoying.
...there are also many car drivers that drive reckless and curse. Road rage has been an integral part of New York City culture far longer than any TikToker or YouTuber cyclist.
Angry drivers and gridlock have been a staple of NYC for decades. How many movies from the 80s and the 90s, back when no bike lanes existed, have the furious cab driver yelling at the traffic caused by cars?
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5 minutes ago, SoSpectacular said:
No one said anything about bringing the speed limit back up as you can still hit 30 casually even without knowing it based on how open the road is.
I'll put it like this.
In general when there's threads about increasing traffic, plazas, bike and bus lanes are always the first things blamed. It is instinct, a defensive reflex to dump on them, even when they're not remotely close to being the source of traffic.
In past threads, solutions are always about removing them, raising the speed limit, etc. So yeah, no one here said it, but it's been discussed before, and it's why I brought it up, because after a while you realize these discussions follow very similar beats and it's not hard to anticipate what the next beat will be.
My post written at 3 AM in the morning wasn't meant as a response to this specific gridlock but as a general rebutal to this weird flex that has popped up throughout the years. In all honesty, it gets a little annoying after a while.
I like that people have different options of moving around the city. I just don't want to concede more ground to cars. So many concessions have been for car drivers over the decades. But a little bit is given to bikes and they are treated as the source of all that is evil and unholy with this city. Are people really that aggrieved by them? It feels like Twitter after a while.
There are indeed a number of actual problems with these some of these lanes, but they are unique to each location. Each one requires a different solution. And not all give problems. 14th Street has been pretty successful. I love that I can go from Delancey to Union Square in like 10 minutes.
But the amount of exclusive bus and bike lanes is too small to account for the vast majority of traffic gridlock in the city. Many bus lanes are barely enforced anyway.
So I don't understand why people love bringing them up in situations like this tunnel where it is clear that they are not even remotely being considered as solutions. Blaming them makes for nice jokes and quippy phrases, but at the cost of nuance, detail, and seriousness.
It really feels stale after a while, like Wallyhorse reviving a brown R.
1 hour ago, SoSpectacular said:The bigger question is, why did everyone decide to up and buy cars last year? Registrations went way up! The exact opposite of what the mayor was trying to prevent. The subways and buses were perfectly fine to ride, but with the pandemic upon us, everyone was basically fear-mongered into staying away from public transit, not to mention the increased transparency on what's been happening on the subways making it into the news everyday like it never happens.
They did, but on the other hand, traffic was already on the rise pre-pandemic. DOT just installed a new traffic light near me. And I agree with that decision, because the amount of traffic has increased dramatically on that intersection over the last decade. Crossing the street was feeling very stressful. No bike lanes there to blame.
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Yeah, I'm gonna be the odd man out here in this discussion. People are very eager to rag on bike lanes and pedestrian plazas because they're very easy scapegoats, but at the end of the day...
More cars = More traffic. There's only so much traffic agents can do.
First, the Borough of Manhattan, established back in the 1600s, was NOT designed for personal vehicles, just like any other hundred year old city. The streets were designed first and foremost for pedestrians way back yonder. Then came the wagons, the horse carriages, the buses, the trolleys, and then the car. It's not a coincidence that as each mode of transportation was introduced, the streets became more and more crowded. Newer towns and cities in the US have been designed for personal vehicles. And these places are a PITA to live in.
It is much easier to lose people to cars than it is to convince people to switch to public transit in the first place, let alone with this dysfunctional MTA.
I spent some time this summer outside of the US in Guatemala City. The transit system is barebones, something to be ashamed about. There's supposed to be 3000 buses; only 500 actually run.
In the same household, the neighbor, his wife, the mistress, 2 sons, 5 daughters, 10 cousins, grandma, and that one blind uncle all got 2 cars. They all think they can drive into the city during the rush and be perfectly fine, and they blame all the other drivers for the horrendous traffic down there. And that is with much less public transit than what there ought to be. Over there, my street alone had some 40 cars on the sidewalk, because the streets weren't designed for such a shitload. Neighbors ask those with no cars for space. My grandma's little pavement space in front has been destroyed. The amount of cars parked on the sidewalk put police precincts here to shame.
Same here. Drivers love complaining about traffic, and how it's always that guy from New Jersey that screws everything over or the crazy cyclist, but at the end of the day, they got no one to blame but themselves.
But will people in these two situations give up driving into the city for work and take up transit?
I'll put it this way: Not in numbers that would be great for transit. The moving-drivers-into-transit argument is less realistic than what it is made out to be.
So what about bus lanes, bikes, plazas, etc?
If all these lanes and plazas were eliminated tomorrow, the first thing people will with more space on the road is......drive more. And we would end up with even more traffic, but now with no place for pedestrians to just walk and relax.
With the record number of new car registrations and rising car ownership, raising the speed limit back to 30 mph or even 35 is not going to convince drivers to switch over to buses.
There seems to be a sentiment here that this is the magic bullet that will make buses go more faster or make them more reliable.
But in fact, it'll just convince people that driving in the city will be even faster. And when many car drivers think the same thing, what will happen? They'll all just wind up driving more and add more traffic. With more traffic, there will be more delays. And more importantly, that Manhattan bus is going to become even less reliable than what it is. Opening up more space for cars just makes drivers want to drive more.
It's the law of induced demand.
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1 hour ago, Lawrence St said:
Since when????
15 minutes ago, TomaszSBklyn said:I'm eager to catch it or at least look at its picture. Where can I find more info? At this link:
https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/Metropolitan_Transportation_Authority_7484-7850#7500-7599
there is nothing specific or unusual about vehicle 7575. Also, as a 45 footer shouldn't it have a tag axle?
It's a joke. It's why SevenEleven's post got 13 laughs......
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8 minutes ago, TomaszSBklyn said:
Perhaps a different type of an engine may be a reason why the above mentioned D60HFs still serve in Minnesota while they've been history here since 2019, I believe. Or perhaps the reason might be due to poorer road conditions, higher number of riders or longer routes. However, one might not help but wonder how times decommissioning en masse of particular fleet types (based on the make and model) was simply a top down arbitrary decision that had nothing to do with poor performance broadly speaking.
They keep a number of older buses just for the Minnesota State Fair that runs from the last week of August to Labor Day. After that, they'll store them while occasionally placing them in service until the next State Fair.
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I spent some time in Guatemala this summer; it was really interesting to see how city transit has changed. Last time I visited, the old red buses dominated the city. Transurbano, which was touted as a replacement, turned out to be a front for funneling money from the government into the hands of the associations that run the red buses. Money that was supposed to be used for improving the bus system was used for equipment that was never used, and whatever was left was used for undetermined reasons. It was supposed to buy 3150 new buses, but only 450 were only bought. It was a pretty big scandal, and a former president of the country was arrested.
Skip forward to this year. What is left of Transurbano has been buying used buses, mostly from the United States but others from Brazil and even some Chinese buses. It has a ton of Neoplans, Orions, Blue Birds, ElDorados, Gilligs, New Flyers (especially from Houston METRO), and more. COVID brought everything to a standstill, and the red buses stopped running in March 2020.
The City of Mixco is to Guatemala City what 1890s Brooklyn was to 1890s Manhattan. The transition from one to the other is seamless. Over the last 3-4 years, it has been taking over the red bus routes little by little with a system called Rutas Express (the blue and green buses).
Transmetro, the City's own BRT system, has been expanding with a couple of new lines as well, and they have bi-articulated buses now. There are two other new systems that serve smaller satellite cities/towns, but I never saw them. I do know one of them, TransMIO (which serves a place called Villa Nueva), has a lot of D40LFs.
I'll start off with American transit buses, because that is what I think most fans will find interesting. I really loved seeing Gillig Phantoms and D40LFs running around, living their second lives.
Transurbano is oriented in a North-South axis, but I rarely spent time there, so unfortunately I couldn't see Transurbano a lot. It was a shame, because they run the American stuff. Whenever I passed through the center, I really hoped some good stuff would pop up.
Rutas Mixco has a combination of refurbished red buses with used Brazilian buses, but virtually no American transit buses (Blue Birds on the other hand are very plentiful).
Almost all my photos were taken within cars.
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The new extenstion of the Northern Line of London Underground opened earlier today. The two new stations are Nine Elms and Battersea Power Station.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-58621491
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Hometown Manufacturing is known for building trolley replica buses, but they are now offering transit and commuter buses. The low floor Urban and Commuter both can range from 29 feet to 40 feet. The View comes is offered from 32 feet to 36 feet.
The Hometown Urban. It looks like Gillig and Orion had a baby.
https://hometown-mfg.com/buses/urban
The Hometown Commuter
https://hometown-mfg.com/buses/commuter
The Hometown View
https://hometown-mfg.com/buses/view
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An Alexander Dennis Enviro200 for Delaine Buses.
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Saw this from railroad.net.
It's too late now, but Passaic County Planning Board had been accepting emails from people in regards to a proposed Newark-Paterson light rail.
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Yooooo
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New Flyer XE35 #141 being tested (141-144 will be the XE35).
From the CPTDB wiki:
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Since when does North Hempstead have a bus service? Someone posted a photo of a blue Gillig owned by the town.
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10 minutes ago, XcelsiorBoii4888 said:
Does the M60 SBS have an eastern terminal within LGA? Or does it basically do a giant loop like the Q70 SBS?
It makes the giant loop. They change drivers once they get to 2nd Avenue in Harlem.
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The MTA is outsourcing HVAC work on 1,002 R160 cars.
QuoteMTA to give overhaul work of 1,000 NYC subway cars to private company
By CLAYTON GUSE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | JUL 10, 2021 AT 5:56 PMThe MTA is set to issue a high-priced contract to a private company for the overhaul of heating and air conditioning systems on more than 1,000 subway cars — a job that’s historically been done by the agency’s in-house workforce.
NYC Transit has a shortage of car mechanics due to a hiring freeze put in place during the pandemic — and the subway’s repair shops are packed to the gills as crews overhaul other cars, transit officials said.
That’s left the Metropolitan Transportation Authority with a sticky wicket when it comes to its fleet of R160 cars, which run on the subway’s lettered lines.
The R160s first hit the tracks 10 to 15 years ago — and need their ventilation systems revamped to ensure riders aren’t stuck in hot cars during the summer or chilly cars in the winter.
The HVAC systems sit on the tops of subway cars, and performing maintenance on one of them requires the car’s entire roof to be removed and shipped to a separate location.
Transit officials said the agency already did the overhaul work on 666 of the R160 cars with its in-house crews, but plan to issue a contract to an outside vendor to do the work on another 1,002.
“The volume of routine HVAC unit overhauls has increased in recent years as a result of New York City Transit introducing a significant number of new train cars to the system,” said MTA spokesman Andrei Berman. “As a result, the number of HVAC units now exceeds the amount of space needed for maintaining this quantity of HVAC units.”
MTA officials have selected a company to do the work, but the contract must be approved by the agency’s board. Officials have not yet announced the cost of the contract.
MTA leaders were forced to gain approval from Transport Workers Union Local 100 to send the work to an outside company. The in-house unionized workers will remove the HVAC units from the tops of the cars at the subways’ Coney Island Yard, and the company will move them by trucks to their own facility.
Once the work is complete, the HVAC systems on the cars will not need to be worked on for another 12 years.
The MTA is slated to purchase 1,900 new subway cars through its 2020-2024 capital plan — and has another 535 on the way through a previous order.
In the coming decades, all of those cars will also need major maintenance work. Matt Ahern, chair of Transport Workers Union Local 100′s car equipment division, said the MTA needs to build more facilities so the new trains can be serviced in-house.
“The problem is space, and the MTA needs to build a new HVAC shop, as well as more space to store cars,” said Ahern.
“The size of the subway fleet is going to increase by 1,500, and there isn’t enough space for them,” Ahern said. “They might store cars in layup tracks across the system overnight, but then you have problems with graffiti hits and vandals.”
“They plan to buy all these new cars, but no plan to build more space to work on them and store them.”
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train on a concrete structure mess up the quality of life for said lots and distribution centers?
Flixbus acquires Greyhound
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