Joel Up Front

The 25 and 26 are very packed during rush hours, especially the latter when all the employees at the hospital from NYC are done for the day.

At this point, I think walking is a better idea than taking the rails:

 

 

Service Change  Posted: 04/26/2017  5:39PM

Due to signal problems at Wall St, the following service changes are in effect:

Northbound and trains are running with delays.

Some northbound trains are running on the line from Nevins St to 149 St-Grand Concourse.

Some southbound trains are running on the line from Chambers St to Rector St then terminate.

Allow additional travel time.

B Division:
 

 

Service Change  Posted: 04/26/2017  4:55PM
 

Due to signal problems at Lexington Av-53 St, the following service changes are in effect:

Northbound trains are running on the line from W 4 St-Washington Sq to Jackson Hts-Roosevelt Av.

71 Av bound trains are running on the line from 47-50 Sts-Rockefeller Ctr to 36 St (Qns).

Expect delays to , and train service.

Allow additional travel time.

Delays all over the A Division, but this has just not been a good month for the at all:

 

Service Change  Posted: 04/25/2017  8:29AM
 

Due to signal problems at Mets-Willets Pt, 34 St bound express trains are running local from Mets-Willets Pt to 74 St-Broadway.

Main St-bound trains are running with delays.

Allow additional travel time.

The and have delays as well, but what's this?
 

 

Service Change  Posted: 04/25/2017  8:36AM
 

Due to signal problems at Rector St, northbound and trains are running with delays.

Some northbound trains are running on the line from DeKalb Av to Canal St.

Expect delays on , and trains.

Allow additional travel time.

The entire system's lining up for their shot at making this Friday suck:

 

 

Service Change  Posted: 04/21/2017  2:13PM
 

Due to signal problems at Grand Central-42 St, Some 34 St-Hudson Yards bound trains terminate at Queensboro Plaza.

Expect delays in both directions.

As an alternative, for service bettween Queens and Manhattan consider or train service.

Allow additional travel time.

It wouldn't have been a Friday without ConEd failing and taking the subway out, would it?

Why aren't the artics loading in the drive-thru N6 loading bay in Hempstead?

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7110036,-73.6240533,65m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

The turn in and out of the terminal is kind of tight for a bus that long.  Not to mention all the maneuvers it would have to make trying to get in and out of the bay, and even moreso getting in and out of the terminal itself.

I've seen 1643 and 1648 no less than 5 times over the past month.  There's also another Foothill bus still in service but I can't remember the number.

I saw 1968 on the N6.  Decent load for the time of day.  The XN40 behind it was packed as well.

Does NICE release the Passenger Counter data to the public? It would be interesting to see  ridership patterns and loss, N6 is only full during rush hour basically, it used to be full ALL DAY.

And show the world how much ridership has actually plummeted?  There's got to be a political reason as to why Mongo and company aren't completely gutting service.

At this point, I'd be more worried about retaining ridership.

Does anyone else think that NICE should charge some sort of transfer fee for riders transferring from the MTA (such as 25 cents)? It would still be significantly cheaper for riders compared to the LIRR, and could help to fill the budget gap a bit.

That's a good way to kill ridership that's already on the decline.

 

Service Change  Posted: 02/21/2017  2:37PM

 

Due to a train with mechanical problems at Jackson Hts-Roosevelt Av, northbound and trains are running express Queens Plaza to Forest Hills-71 Av.

Allow additional travel time.

How little, if anything, they've mentioned of ridership figures after 2012 is sad.  It might be tucked very cleverly into a paragraph of a statement or into one of their Powerpoint presentations or something.

And it seems like Queens is coming back, with a vengeance.

Did the MSBA ever stop by GA Cinema or did they not have a route there back then?  I think for a while when the route was new, the N8 made a stop by Target but this didn't last too long.

GA Mall has already become Queens (Center Mall at Valley Stream).  I'm glad I've never spent any more than 30 minutes near RFM at a time.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that the old RFM terminal was so close to Macy's.

Many times the Westbound N1 is able to pick up people west of Elmont Road that get flagged by packed N6 buses.  There are mornings where people have been flagged by Jamaica bound N1 and N6 buses. They may consider cutting peak N1 service when Artics go into service though

Do you remember anything of the old N2 and N3 when they followed the N1 and N6 to Jamaica during the rush?

Did Jamaica Depot ever get remodeled or rebuilt?

Those short turns nearly ALWAYS flagged DSS and it wasn't made any easier when that elementary school on Jackson let out.  I remember a few MTA B/O's refused to move the bus after the Student Union unless everyone moved all the way back; this was well before the NGs were the basis of the fleet.  (To be a smartass?  I'd always stand ALL the way in the back, on the right, so the B/O couldn't say anything to me).  When the weather got better one year, I started walking to Bradley Hall and taking the N35, which avoided the schools and all the buildings and would more likely than not make it to HTC before the N16.  I don't even want to imagine it now under NICE.

It's terrible to see the old NGs in such terrible shape.  Slipping transmissions, squealing belts, everything short of one catching on fire, I've seen or heard it.  When I rode the N20G back to Long Island at the end of December, I caught 1684.  It was painfully slow, but the interior held up well after over a decade, the exterior (and interior) signs worked fine, the heat worked just fine, and the drivetrain sounded healthy.  If it was washed and polished inside and out, I probably wouldn't have known that it was an older bus.

Took NCIE for the first time in a year and a half.  I got to ride the new buses.  The interior isn't that bad but the rear is kind of cramped in between the rear and those inward-facing seats.  The ride is also kind of rough compared to the Orions.

The older part of campus retained the extremely narrow roads from the old AFB, and the curbs for those roads are unbelievably high.  I doubt it.

I passed by a towtruck with an NG on the hooks earlier.  If only I wasn't driving and it wasn't dark, I would have caught the bus number.

I tried to check two MetroCards I got last year, neither of which expire until 2017, and the MVM at Sutphin-JFK told me both were invalid for refill.  Since I had somewhere to be that day, I just bought another one.  Why would the MVM tell me that neither card was good?  Was the stripe damaged beyond repair?