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I have an update for you... DOT just released this today... Once this is implemented, we'll keep an eye on things and reach out to DOT if need be. Luckily for me I have personally met the Queens DOT Commissioner at a previous event, so he remembers me and I'm sure will try to assist where possible.

Yeah, that's why I thought you posted it...

If they already did the Bx27, then that request was put in to have it done immediately. They use an outside vendor to update BusTime, so I would check up on the M125. If it isn't done in say a month, I would hound Customer Service to forward your request.

Those changes won't be reflected on BusTime because it takes time for them to update it, so they'll get around to it eventually. They don't have someone on hand to do those things immediately.

People always think that THEIR stop is the biggest one and they should more service. lol

Yeah, but I think that was noted because she was the Ex-Transit boss that advocated for more security in the subway system, and it is known that she usually commutes often by subway. It's unclear if she was assaulted coming from the subway or what, but it wouldn't be a surprise. We've also had a number of assaults take place as people were either leaving the subway or on their way to the subway.

Pre-COVID, I definitely had to stand on peak Metro-North trains from Riverdale until I finally decided to take a different peak train so I could get a seat. It happens unfortunately. That said, while Metro-North restored most of the service, they did not restore all of it, particularly off-peak, because the ridership isn't there, so that means hourly service part of the day, and yes it sucks I agree, but I understand. I had been traveling via Metro-North in some capacity during the entire pandemic, even though I was either work-from-home for over almost two years and then hybrid (now work-from-home permanently), so I've seen where the ridership was from the beginning and where it is now. It has gradually returned, and some trains are pretty crowded, but still not to the point that all service can be restored. Speaking with the about service in general, they did not want to restore service immediately, not only because of budgetary concerns, but also because ridership patterns have changed. Some people not only travel less now, but also travel at different times compared to before. Using myself as an example, my use of public transit has declined dramatically since shifting back to work-from-home permanently with an office at home, etc. I'm lucky now if use any mass transit maybe once or twice a week (mainly leisure trips into the City and at totally different times), and anything work related traveling to any of our other offices is maybe once or twice a month max. That's compared to having a Metro-North monthly pass previously, taking the train several times a week. There are quite a few white collar types like myself that take the railroad, which is a real chunk of the LIRR & MNRR ridership, so they also are trying to strategize and see what ridership looks like long-term in a post-pandemic environment. It isn't clear yet in part because some employees have returned full-time to the office. Some have and then went back to work-from-home and some have some sort of hybrid schedule, so you have a chunk of those people who are also not using mass transit or barely using it like myself and getting around by car. I believe I posted a chart before that shows the 's funding sources. Almost 40% of it comes from fares, so with ridership at maybe 60% on the railroads, that's a big chunk of revenue that has to be generated from somewhere, and they've burned through a chunk of the funds they received from the Feds to actually keep running service. In any even, it's fine to post here, but this forum is not going to resolve the issue. Anyone complaining about a lack of service on the LIRR should be contacting the directly and asking for more service to be restored AND contacting their elected officials to write to the , which is exactly what myself and other residents I know in my area did, and we did so repeatedly (people think that complaining one time resolves the issue - it doesn't; it takes persistence, and even then sometimes the goal isn't achieved, but the is going to argue that they are facing a fiscal cliff of uncertainty, which is true), noting the large gap in service (it was almost an hour and forty minutes between trains in some cases) and how it impacted people being able to commute. Some of the trains that come to mind in my area are the ones that terminate at Greystone. Those tend to carry a large number of Riverdale residents, which makes up the large majority of the ridership on those trains. The LIRR is also under new leadership and I must say that Catherine Rinaldi has done a good job with MNRR and she should do a good job in her Interim role with the LIRR taking over for Phillip Eng, but the LIRR is a completely different railroad and sometimes runs things in a way that doesn't seem logical to a number of commuters, so we will see. That's my two cents.

And how crowded are the trains at that time? Everyone is complaining about it, but no one is saying if the trains are crowded, empty or what. If there was adequate ridership then they would have to add a train so that there is service every half hour. I know for a fact that LIRR ridership is not what it was pre-pandemic. Yes SOME trains are packed and even standing room only. Others are not. That's what determines service levels in most cases. Ridership overall is still below what it was considerably. https://www.fox5ny.com/news/lirr-ridership-still-down

1. I don't know why you would go to the station and just expect a train to show up. It's a railroad, not a subway. 2. Service was cut across the railroads because of lower ridership because of the pandemic. I experienced the same thing on my line with an even longer wait months ago, but that was going from Manhattan to Riverdale. After complaining to Metro-North about the almost hour and 30 minute gap and my elected officials, they agreed to restore the train, along with other service, but not all service will come back because the ridership isn't there.

Well yeah, that was basically my point....

I think you're replying to the wrong post, as I am unclear what you're referring to when you say "It isn't, before".

Ex-NYC Transit boss Sarah Feinberg assaulted in unprovoked attack near subway stop By Carl Campanile and Amanda Woods October 28, 2022 3:32pm Updated Former NYC Transit boss Sarah Feinberg was punched in an unprovoked assault in Chelsea last week. Dennis A. Clark Former NYC Transit president Sarah Feinberg was randomly assaulted near a subway stop in Chelsea, The Post has learned. Feinberg, who appealed for more cops assigned to the subways last year amid a crime surge, was sucker-punched at the corner of West 21st Street and 6th Avenue, near the F train at 23rd Street at 1:15 p.m. Oct. 20. The attacker was walking the wrong way in a bike lane and suddenly turned around and punched Feinberg in the face, a source familiar with the case said. The motive was unclear, though there’s a pattern of thugs participating in a sick “knockout game” by attempting to viciously render an unsuspecting innocent victim unconscious with a single blow. Feinberg called 911 and when cops didn’t immediately respond, she walked to the local precinct and filed a criminal complaint, a source said. The NYPD has a videotape of the incident and is investigating, the source said. Her face was swollen but she did not seek medical attention. “Obviously I’m grateful the assault was not more serious but I don’t think there’s any question there’s just far, far too much of these kinds of attacks, and much more serious ones, happening,” Feinberg told The Post on Friday. Feinberg was sucker-punched at the corner of West 21st Street and 6th Avenue. Google Maps The NYPD confirmed the alleged assault. Its report said Feinberg, 45, was waiting for the light at West 21st and Sixth when a male, believed to be in his 40s, punched her with a closed fist in the nose and forehead area, unprovoked, causing pain. The attacker was described as about 5 feet 8 inches and about 150 pounds, the report. While MTA NYC Transit president last year, Feinberg publicly sparred with then-Mayor Bill de Blasio, demanding that he increase police patrols in the subway system to stem a spate of violence on the rails. Crime has emerged as a top issue in the race for governor pitting incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul against Republican rival Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin. Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams announced a plan last week to boost police patrols in the subways to stem the violence, with the state footing the bill for overtime. Source: https://nypost.com/2022/10/28/ex-nyc-transit-chief-sarah-feinberg-assaulted-near-subway-stop/?fbclid=IwAR0PFLCL7331NVHMYpjBcyy69uLyrQpLLpwfH-h8au3WmQ8-XfGRvaFmsCw

Physically, that we know of... Mentally is another matter. As for the guy "rotting in jail for a while", if that was happening, he wouldn't have been out in the first place. Let's see if the Queens DA lowers the charges like the Manhattan DA has been doing for the criminals.

As if the driver having a gun pulled on him and having to jump out of a window of a moving bus isn't forever traumatizing? lol Not saying that playing vigilante is the answer, but arguing that this incident had "a net zero effect on society" is disingenuous. I get where he's coming from in that some people may want to start taking the law into their own hands. When you don't have law & order, this is what you get... Chaos... I'd be willing to put money on it that this guy has been released over and over again.

Only problem with these pilot programs is the fleet won't be consistent. It's almost impossible with fleet needing to be moved around.

I see. I believe I heard that the pilot program that they're running allows for an area out of the way for the strollers to be left open.

I find this interesting: Why do other transit agencies allow unfolded strollers in some capacity, but the does not? Are the buses in those cities larger to allow more room for people to pass?

Unless it's an extremely long ride, there's generally enough turnover to get a seat at some point during the trip, not to mention that a number of people prefer to stand anyway. Bigger doors means less dwell time at stops, which means faster trips if there aren't signal issues or other delays.

Well yeah. Luckily nothing else happened... As for Adams, I was actually hopeful that he would get crime under control since he was an ex-NYPD officer and is quite familiar with the issues underground that can cause problems, and thus would be able to sway electeds up in Albany to make changes to Bail Reform, which in reality is the only way to stop these career criminals from roaming the system. There are other Progressive electeds that continue to say that more police isn't the answer and that Bail Reform is working. Of course these "limousine liberals" are not taking the subway. They are being sheltered and driven around, so they don't have to worry about crime in the subways, which is why they can believe in these hypothetical scenarios that sound great, but aren't practical in every day living. The criminals are even laughing because they are being released over and over again when they should be locked up. That also doesn't mean that the Republicans would totally resolve the issue. I'm not that naive, but what is happening right now is a lot of inaction while people are being killed and brutally attacked in the subway, and the people that keep saying that crime isn't that bad because some stats show that certain crimes have dropped aren't the ones that have been attacked or killed, so when it isn't them dealing with the issue, then of course they are in denial. When you have a mental illness crisis as we do now in our transit system, all bets are off. You can talk about crime stats all you want because someone who is unhinged doesn't give a damn about them or anything else, and that's the scary part. In an aforementioned link I posted from NBC, only now are the Democrats talking about addressing the EDP issue... 50 beds is a joke. There are far more mentally ill individuals roaming the streets here and 50 beds is a drop in the bucket. If it wasn't election time, I'm not even sure they would be doing that.

I know very well what you responded to, which is why it's confusing that you would bring up the 90s when transit crime was far worse in the 70s and 80s. You also know that in most crime conversations, people compare crime NOW vs. the previous year to see if crime is increasing or decreasing, yet you are pretending as if that isn't relevant when it is. Comical... Why would you need to look over your shoulder if crime is so low? Is it only the EDPs or other concerns? I recall you commenting a while back about junkies shooting up at the West 4th St station. @RandomRider0101 If the person was an EDP, then they likely aren't coherent in the first place. As far as someone stepping up (lol) we have a Progressive Mayor and a Progressive Governor that should be doing that. Now that elections are coming up, it seems that the powers that be are "concerned".

"READ ERROR" has been around for many years. Not new.

Some of these glitches are the result of old technology. There are a few that the apparently weren't aware of too. For example, there was one where if you dipped your card and it had a zero balance on it, it would not give you your transfer. Apparently the transfer couldn't be seen with a zero balance, so they had to make some tweaks to fix it. There is the example you provided, which I have had myself where my Metrocard couldn't be read when I dipped it on the express bus, but it worked when I swiped it at a turnstile. I've heard of some other crazy ones where the expiration date that shows up when you dip or swipe changes, but the card still expires at whatever the original date it was supposed to expire.

So in other words, you conveniently omitted the fact that crime is worse this year compared to last year, knowing that we've been essentially going in and out of a pandemic with much lower ridership, even last year? lol Also, I was taking the subway in the 90s. It was actually fairly safe then. It's the 70s and the 80s that were really bad when the City was suffering financially. That said, you really can't compare those times anyway because as @Trainmaster5 noted, we have an explosion of EDPs, so safety concerns are totally different now. It used to be that if you kept your personal belongings safe, you were fine generally speaking, but that isn't a given now with so many people being attacked unprovoked. Anyway you slice it, the current administration (City & State) is FAILING to keep NYC safe. The guy involved in the latest platform shoving had over 30 arrests. A career criminal and a mentally disturbed individual who should've never been released, but here we are. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/survivor-shoved-onto-tracks-reacts-to-nyc-safety-plan-cops-make-arrest/3920589/

That's why so many people are avoiding the subways and driving because it's "a lot safer than it used to be". lol We have a mental health crisis underground. You are looking at this based on stats and even there you are wrong. Transit crime is up 41%. Then factor in all of the unprovoked attacks and it's a mess. So many EDPs underground shoving people off platforms and other random attacks. Everyone says it's safe until they're the victim. https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/transit/2022/10/24/transit-advocates--subways-are-in-a--state-of-emergency-

True... lol