Lance Posted May 18, 2017 Share #15801 Posted May 18, 2017 For those interested, the CIS displays are now online at Lexington Av-53 St on the mezzanine and platform levels, displaying the usual PSAs at the moment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Posted May 18, 2017 Share #15802 Posted May 18, 2017 On Monday, the 3 early morning trains will start at Gravesend-86 St instead of Bay Parkway. *When the CI side is under renovation, selected trains will terminate at Bay Parkway. I would hold off on that right now. The Manhattan-bound platforms are scheduled to reopen this Monday, with renovations on the Coney Island side starting sometime in July. Brooklyn Reporter has the full story. Read more: Source 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bstar1 Posted May 18, 2017 Share #15803 Posted May 18, 2017 Nice to know Sea Beach Line and Culver Line progressing around the same time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Union Tpke Posted May 18, 2017 Share #15804 Posted May 18, 2017 The posters are up for the Culver Line service change. May 22 is when it starts. It is going to be completed in early 2018. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardye1 Posted May 18, 2017 Share #15805 Posted May 18, 2017 The posters are up for the Culver Line service change. May 22 is when it starts. It is going to be completed in early 2018. Wasn't it supposed to start on June 1st? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongLiveRock Posted May 18, 2017 Share #15806 Posted May 18, 2017 How did the situation with World Trade Center/Chambers St being separate stations come to be? What did the IND think the benefits of that would be? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3F Posted May 18, 2017 Share #15807 Posted May 18, 2017 I just took an R42 train that was signed on the front, and on the back. I know it's probably a common occurrence, but I just thought it was a little funny. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielhg121 Posted May 18, 2017 Share #15808 Posted May 18, 2017 There's 3 R62a train sets on the 7 now and I believe a 4th one is in the yard. Sent from my iPhone using NYC Transit Forums mobile app 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amtrak706 Posted May 18, 2017 Share #15809 Posted May 18, 2017 How did the situation with World Trade Center/Chambers St being separate stations come to be? What did the IND think the benefits of that would be? The original IND line that opened in 1932 was from 207 St to what is now the World Trade Center terminal, at the time called Hudson Terminal. The express tracks at Canal St were then extended separately via the Cranberry St tunnels to Brooklyn in 1933. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IAlam Posted May 18, 2017 Share #15810 Posted May 18, 2017 There's 3 R62a train sets on the 7 now and I believe a 4th one is in the yard. Sent from my iPhone using NYC Transit Forums mobile app There usually out all day expect late night. i usually see one on the weekends too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RestrictOnTheHanger Posted May 18, 2017 Share #15811 Posted May 18, 2017 So i just saw an OOS heading back to Manhattan via QBL express. Must be due to the investigation along the Astoria line. Wonder if it got sent to 71 Ave in service 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Posted May 18, 2017 Share #15812 Posted May 18, 2017 How did the situation with World Trade Center/Chambers St being separate stations come to be? What did the IND think the benefits of that would be? When the 8th Avenue and Fulton St lines were designed and built, the locals were intended to be only intra-borough routes, remaining in one borough, whereas the expresses would run between boroughs. The locals would mirror the IRT 9th Avenue and BMT Fulton St lines, with the locals intended to run between 168 Street and Hudson Terminal & Court St and ~Euclid Av. However, as funds dried up in the '30s during the Great Depression, the IND pretty much had no choice but to run the much-known route from 207 Street to Rockaway Av. It was either this or run three subpar routes which would not have been received well by the riding public. That's why we have the seemingly random build of Chambers St-World Trade Center and the, until 1976, useless IND station at Court St. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenryB Posted May 19, 2017 Share #15813 Posted May 19, 2017 The Manhattan-bound platforms are scheduled to reopen this Monday, with renovations on the Coney Island side starting sometime in July. Brooklyn Reporter has the full story. Read more: Source MTA Press Release: http://www.mta.info/press-release/nyc-transit/manhattan-bound-service-returns-n-stations-sea-beach-line But I don't know how it could be done in 3 days.... at least the major constructions at 8ave look unfinished 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielhg121 Posted May 19, 2017 Share #15814 Posted May 19, 2017 Lol an MTA employee was asking for directions to dyre avenue from me. Sent from my iPhone using NYC Transit Forums mobile app 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amtrak706 Posted May 19, 2017 Share #15815 Posted May 19, 2017 When the 8th Avenue and Fulton St lines were designed and built, the locals were intended to be only intra-borough routes, remaining in one borough, whereas the expresses would run between boroughs. The locals would mirror the IRT 9th Avenue and BMT Fulton St lines, with the locals intended to run between 168 Street and Hudson Terminal & Court St and ~Euclid Av. However, as funds dried up in the '30s during the Great Depression, the IND pretty much had no choice but to run the much-known route from 207 Street to Rockaway Av. It was either this or run three subpar routes which would not have been received well by the riding public. That's why we have the seemingly random build of Chambers St-World Trade Center and the, until 1976, useless IND station at Court St.The IND actually built exactly what they had planned in this area. The Chambers St platform is slightly further south than the WTC terminal because the express tracks have to swing under and around the southbound local track after Canal St, and aren't quite done doing so where the terminal platform starts. The IND operated with locals intra-borough and expresses inter-borough well after the Fulton St line was open. After people figured out it was kind of dumb, the locals were connected via the Cranberry branch. The whole area between Canal and Chambers is partly convoluted because of the provision for IND Second System expansion to South 4th St. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence St Posted May 19, 2017 Share #15816 Posted May 19, 2017 @VG8, did you do that B express on weekends petition? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Far Rock Depot Posted May 19, 2017 Share #15817 Posted May 19, 2017 I thought WTC (then Hudson Terminal) was arranged like that to provide a direct access to the H&M tubes Sent from my LGLS755 using Tapatalk 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amtrak706 Posted May 20, 2017 Share #15818 Posted May 20, 2017 I thought WTC (then Hudson Terminal) was arranged like that to provide a direct access to the H&M tubes Sent from my LGLS755 using Tapatalk Well the original Hudson Terminal platform was probably put as close as possible to the H&M. But the Chambers platform was designed to serve the Chambers St area, leaving the terminal station to serve Hudson Terminal (hence the names). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bstar1 Posted May 20, 2017 Share #15819 Posted May 20, 2017 I think service should operate during summer weekends until Labor Day for beach goers to and from Brighton Beach and via Q Line in Manhattan to 96 St-2 Av or run normal to Harlem-145 St. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BreeddekalbL Posted May 20, 2017 Share #15820 Posted May 20, 2017 I think service should operate during summer weekends until Labor Day for beach goers to and from Brighton Beach and via Q Line in Manhattan to 96 St-2 Av or run normal to Harlem-145 St. there is no big construction projects on 6th ave or CPW is there for the summer? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bstar1 Posted May 20, 2017 Share #15821 Posted May 20, 2017 I don't know of any construction projects. I also suggested to operate on Line in Manhattan to 96 St on weekends. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Posted May 20, 2017 Share #15822 Posted May 20, 2017 Yeah, because that's not confusing at all... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysteriousBtrain Posted May 20, 2017 Share #15823 Posted May 20, 2017 Just a heads up the Manhattan is operating with a handful of R62A/142A cars. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3F Posted May 20, 2017 Share #15824 Posted May 20, 2017 Yeah, because that's not confusing at all...Not much more confusing than sending the there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielhg121 Posted May 20, 2017 Share #15825 Posted May 20, 2017 Just a heads up the Manhattan is operating with a handful of R62A/142A cars. Wait what is the difference between the and the now. They could just sign them up as short turned trains now that they split the to 2 sections. Sent from my iPhone using NYC Transit Forums mobile app 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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