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MHV9218

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  1. Saw an FP 77xx XD40 working across West Houston late last night, like 11 or so. Quill-bound? Some shuttle? Too late for training, confused me.
  2. This is true, but the flip side of the same coin is that it shouldn't necessarily be the Transit Authority's responsibility for treating the consequences of mental illness, which is sort of what we're talking about here. As a large-scale investment you'd have a hard time convincing me it was a better, more equitable, or more productive use of money than installing ADA access, improving frequencies, repairing stations, etc. It's a moot point given how limited the scope of possible PSD stations is, according to that report (basically everything with platform-edge columns out of the running, so the whole early IRT, and then everything elevated for weight), but sort of an interesting question to consider.
  3. Generally speaking, I don't really understand why this is an essential problem now as opposed to any other point in the subway's history. Nothing against PSDs, but seems like a better use of money would be investing in social services and policing that would together reduce the number of people ending up on the tracks in the first place.
  4. Great posts. To this day, I think in the non-railfan world – and among a younger audience – it's really only "The Lex" which remains in common use. Some South Brooklynites still say Brighton, but I never hear anybody ever say Sea Beach.
  5. Seeing 9420 with MV stickers on the M3 confused the hell out of me...
  6. I'm pretty sure they deleted that code on the vast majority of buses to make it MASK REQUIRED only, but my guess is that the 75xx buses with the different signs aren't updated as often. Kind of like how the TwinVision RTSes kept prehistoric codes for years and years (M14 via Ave A, M14 via Ave C etc.). Yeah although that bus was actually in service. The MQ stickers I think are just people playing around.
  7. The sticker stuff is getting goofy. 6193 has a WF sticker now. Also, some of the 75xx buses still have the original covid P/R code reading FARE REQUIRED. Sort of a throwback. Wonder if any buses have the even older ESSENTIAL WORKERS - MASKS REQUIRED readout.
  8. Was funny seeing LFS HEVs on the M15 last night, Tuskegee finally pitching in. That was late though, like 3 or so.
  9. Interesting seeing the 943x buses in service out of Quill. Really a big jump down in the numbering, and I still think of those as RTS numbers lol.
  10. Are you just guessing 6700 is retired because 9422 ran?
  11. TA totally screwed up the messaging/closures for the 8 Ave Fasttrack last night. Saw an entire platform of people waiting for the ACE on W4 upper N/B while all the service was running on W4 lower. Who even knows how long they were there for, since they only taped off the S/B side. Pretty lazy imo.
  12. Electric buses still haven't proven themselves for cold temperature operation, though. The technology is getting there by the year but the CNG fleet was a pretty substantial investment for the MTA and at least those buses have the range for the interim. Maybe one more order of CNGs before it's wrapped up.
  13. Finally a solution to the Prevost seating crisis...
  14. M101 LTD sign at 6th St. is a re-use of an S94 LTD sign, interestingly.
  15. True, but that's historically been an issue on weekdays only. They can usually make service within the boroughs with Manhattan division alone, sometimes BK division for Tuskegee.
  16. Didn't expect Quill to get SI LFSes for a weekend snowstorm. Surprising.
  17. Happens pretty frequently thanks to the diesels and the almost completely defective hybrid sets though – some of those can barely make it over the Manhattan Bridge...
  18. This reminds me of one of the mysteries I never understood: how 9267 ended up with a bulkhead off an MBTA RTS, with dummy spots for taillights at the top corners. Sort of like 5057 with an ex-PBL engine cover as well...
  19. It's funny, I've heard a lot of tell about high, high-up projects with a number of agencies involved all going to shit because....everybody hates the people at the AMTRAK and finds them impossible to deal with. Seems like that managerial/executive apple is rotten to the core.
  20. Regardless, I still don't think they should cancel the trip. Maybe hire better security at CIY!
  21. Do we have any evidence this wasn't just the usual BS that goes down on trains in CIY that are left on open tracks (graffiti etc.)? E.g. not a fan but some average vandal?
  22. Best I got... wish the code had been for the M5 had not just that little paper card...
  23. Those were hella fun. RTSes, D60s, LFSAs, literally whatever Quill felt like sending out. I used to sit at this place on 6th near Bleecker getting some food watching those roll by. I'm kinda tight I usually got photos with the 'SUBWAY SHUTTLE' reading instead of the really cool stuff. I got a couple M5 RTS shots, LFSA M20, but never got the D60HF M5 photo. I feel like you got a video of that if I'm remembering?
  24. Don't get me started on that one. Morons at 2 Bway take the perfectly good M1/M6 to SF and M5 to Houston pattern, destroy the M5 by sending it to SF, make the M1 a meaningless dupe of the M3, realize the M5 is way too long, destroy it again by sending it to Midtown (useless), create the M55 to completely duplicate the M6 they got rid of, and extend the M1 again. No part of this makes sense and service is worse in every way than it was pre-2010.
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