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Finally, after almost 2 years will resume with residual delays.:tup: Actual email, not edited

That is exactly what happened there. I was aboard Astoria bound when we went into emergency, it happened right after we left the station. We stopped abruptly and alarm rang. On the radio I heard that it happened multiple times before us. My guess would be that they can't permanently resolve the problem.

Since when riding bus is a sign of being a lower class citizen?

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. The sole reason why Flushing gets NTTs is that those are the only trains compatible with CBTC. The service cuts weren't caused by order of new B division cars, rather they were caused by results of economical recession in the country few years back.

So Atlantic Avenue of the Brighton line gets new entrance. I wonder if it's for new arena or something else. Also the new roadbed north of the station in northbound direction isn't new at all, just plain old, stinking type one, which means in few years the process will repeat.

Take it easy, nerve cells do no regenerate. BTW the last posts have absolutely nothing to do with SAS...:eek:

Well correct me if I'm wrong, but there are no lighting system of any kind on the El lines, thus how the work is going to be done, if the workers wont be able to see? Additionaly I can't get anything from top of my head when major non emergency work like replacement of tracks was done during night hours on the elevated line.

If you mean to run Fastrack at night for 4 nights, I don't think it is going to work out as great as it does in Manhattan simply because it's an elevated line. Unless it is an emergency, I don't believe the residents would be thrilled to have such inconvenience during the nighttime.

Precisely, there should be a balance between each one, I believe currently it is that way: The tunnels are bored and the stations are built with cut and cover. I have a question, Is anything done in anticipation of the cyan line at a junction where and supposedly separate? Or its only been tunneled to connect to 63rd Street without further work done?

But why would removal of people be necessary? There is always an alternative, which most likely be cheaper (considering New York, that is).

Skyscraper and set of tunnels are two different things. If one was to remove the people from the area in order to construct the subway line, then who would the line serve? Besides the said person/entity would spend more money and time buying people off, rather then building the line. IMO, it is also incorrect to compare Japan and the US, as they are two vastly different cultures.

Not only is faster, it's the only method which easily allows for >2 tracks. Unlike deep bore method, C&C is strictly limited to the characteristics of the street under which the line would be running. But today the use of TBM is not a privilege, it is a necessity. Take for example the portion of track where SAS branches off 63rd Street. It's a wide curve, which lies under blocks of developed neighborhood, rendering cut and cover useless (unless one is willing to tear down the blocks). While cut and cover is cheaper, it is difficult to use it today, especially in densely populated neighborhood such as UES.

Well, TBM is essentially an evolution of a shield. Shield was originally designed at the dawn of 19th century in England. It required manual labor and was effective because of the soft ground under Thames river. Here though, the original shield would take forever to dig through the rocks. With that said, the TBMs only differ based on the requirements for specific job. Thus machine designed to tunnel in soft ground conditions (London, Moscow, etc.) won't cut it in New York. It is also one of the reasons why those machines aren't used again after they are done digging.

We will see when we get there.

I though so as well, but I figured since picture worth thousand words, the video is more important aspect of the report. I just couldn't cut the video out :mad: IF mods think it is appropriate somewhere else, then by all means I'm for it.

Second Avenue Subway Construction: An Underground Look Can't wait to see that station on it's grand opening

I assume one would have to take either the or the to 62nd and transfer to manhattan bound at New Utrecht, which goes to 36th.

I think I myself created whole lot of hype for no reason, otherwise why in the world the cars would have "rail adhesion car" in between, especially since it's fall and it's Brighton and lastly there is some sort of G.O. during mid day hours. So it was false alarm.

Saw some R32s today on Brighton, in this order: 3494-3495-Rail Adhesion Car-3695-3694, heading northbound. Wondering is it related to the start of R32 sms, or is it something completely different?

"Both directions, & train service bypass Jackson Ave due to dark station" Now this is something new, at least for me.

I caught on 6th avenue too, the PA said it was something with 60th St. tunnel. R train on 6th Avenue - West 4 Street - YouTube

R68/A with blue seat I would like to see the whole car with blue seats.

Some of the things I would like to see in R"onemillion" Smooth/Polished stainless steel body, similar to one found on R44-R68/A Near whisper quiet propulsion, motors and A/Cs Larger front route sign, maybe an LCD to display all colors Dream of a railfan; 2/3rd of a cabin, the rest is a railfan window, which is located where currently the flag and (NYCT) logo is. The cabin door slides to the right. :cool: The rest is similar to the current NTTs

Exactly, the time to fix Rogers is gone. It should have been done in 1920, which really shows the short sightedness of designers and engineers of IRT/City back in the days.

Well, first of all I am not a big fan of junctions to begin with. I like the lines to stay separate for as long as possible, because it's the only way to prevent delays due to "train ahead of us, should be moving shortly". Secondly Im not that knowledgeable about the track configuration at that area, and not finding it fun to decide: which trains go where, where they do not go, terminate, running shuttles and so forth. Someone else can cover this. Last of all, it would require the part of Eastern Parkway to be dug out, to which I don't think residents will agree, in light that whole structure brings questionable benefit to regular folk. But I like to fantasize too, so I drew two plans how to improve traffic in the area. Plan 1 Flatbush trains enter/exit mainline with new set of tunnels, similar to what IND has south of 59th st. Because a lot of land has to be used the Nostrand Av. station is demolished. Everything south of Nostrand stays the same. Plan 2 Similar setup, but now the whole Eastern Parkway is screwed. The benefit is that Nostrand stays and new Utica Av. which has separate levels for both and . Just fantasizing it's all