SUBWAY - Random Thoughts Topic

[trainfan22]

If anybody is in the area there's an R160 train heading to Rockaway Park RIGHT NOW! Just passed my train near the race track.

 

It was signed up as the to Rockaway Park which made it that much cooler.

 

There was a 12/9 with TWO people at Broadway Junction which messed up & train service.

Edited July 26, 2018 by trainfan22

[VIP]

Ridiculous! Smh

[trainfan22]

N/B trains were bypassing Broadway Junction, the train involved in the 12-9 (An R46 train) was still parked in the station. No body parts, dead bodies, blood or gore was visable. Just cops standing on the platform.

[FLX9304]

Reference to logos/stickers: I saw that the 42nd Street Shuttle cars have the LIVONIA YARD logos placed next to the number plates. 

My question for the subway followers should every car have the respective yard logo/stickers placed on them similar to the Depot stickers that are on the buses

[mine248]

3 hours ago, trainfan22 said:

If anybody is in the area there's an R160 train heading to Rockaway Park RIGHT NOW! Just passed my train near the race track.

 

It was signed up as the to Rockaway Park which made it that much cooler.

 

There was a 12/9 with TWO people at Broadway Junction which messed up & train service.

Did anyone take a picture of that ?

[Calvin]

1 hour ago, FLX9304 said:

Reference to logos/stickers: I saw that the 42nd Street Shuttle cars have the LIVONIA YARD logos placed next to the number plates. 

My question for the subway followers should every car have the respective yard logo/stickers placed on them similar to the Depot stickers that are on the buses

That's different from the car assignments: those are cars that are part of the experiment by Cuomo for the seatless test 

 

Also, units can swap back and forth as loaners so there's no need

 

Edited July 27, 2018 by Calvin

[trainfan22]

11 minutes ago, mine248 said:

Did anyone take a picture of that ?

I don't know. 

[TheNewYorkElevated]

Rode a  train that had a hot car on my way home today. It was so hot the door leading to the next car was left open so that the air could come in. Feels like the air conditioning crisis is slowly spreading to the R62s. 

[R68OnBroadway]

7 minutes ago, TheNewYorkElevated said:

Rode a  train that had a hot car on my way home today. It was so hot the door leading to the next car was left open so that the air could come in. Feels like the air conditioning crisis is slowly spreading to the R62s. 

I think I read somewhere a while ago that the 62/As have such bad A/C reliability that the R42s do better (or as good as) than them.

[VIP]

Coney Island’s R160’s are gonna be 12 years old this year... let that sink in. 

[LGA Link N Train]

3 hours ago, VIP said:

Coney Island’s R160’s are gonna be 12 years old this year... let that sink in. 

Oh shit, we've come a long way since the budget cuts

[NoHacksJustKhaks]

4 hours ago, VIP said:

Coney Island’s R160’s are gonna be 12 years old this year... let that sink in. 

Funny to think that the MTA still had a ton of problems back then...

[CenSin]

God damn it. I was talking dirty and didn't get the chance to use this: “my train is 10 cars long and B-division width. 😏”

F.Y.I, this started out with “i love exploring tunnels” and ended with “is your train ready?”

My follow-up remark would've been lost on her.

[paulrivera]

They made new strip maps for the  line:

[kosciusko]

19 hours ago, TheNewYorkElevated said:

Rode a  train that had a hot car on my way home today. It was so hot the door leading to the next car was left open so that the air could come in. Feels like the air conditioning crisis is slowly spreading to the R62s. 

The r62s have always had the worst AC in my experience. The only hot cars I've run into this summer were r62s on the  and

[Around the Horn]

A few random thoughts from using the subway today:

1.  shuttle bus

If you're going to run the shuttle bus to 59th only, then you should do one of two things:

1. Make sure the  runs every ten minutes OR

2. Run extra  trains 

They did 3:  Run the  at 12-15 minute frequencies. Inexcusable. 

Otherwise the actual shuttle was decent. Dispatch at 59th tried to keep buses properly spaced out at every 5 minutes. Of course that fell apart at 8th Av where everyone would try to squeeze on one bus to the point that some could not physically close the doors. As a result several large gaps formed. Perhaps there should have been extra personnel at really busy stops...

And they should find a way to put the shuttle buses on BusTime. I think that would help.

2. Weekend supplemental schedules

If you're going to have a G.O. where track capacity is reduced, you should cut one line completely instead of cutting across the board. Case in point: the "12 minute headway" on the  today. I don't think a single interval was on time today. Multiple 15-20 minute waits and one 25 (!) minute wait. That's simply unacceptable if you're also expecting people to take the  train to an  shuttle bus.

Instead they should cut the  at Queens Plaza and run the  local or instead of cutting out trips entirely, run them to 96th on SAS instead.

An example from across the pond: Whenever there is CBTC work on the subsurface lines, one of the Circle or Hammersmith and City lines is completely suspended (with the other service running up to Barking) instead of cutting intervals on all of the lines on that section...

3. Baseball specials

Happened to come across one of the Yankees Specials at West 4th. I quite like that that they had it on the clock as a  to Canal St, to reduce confusion. The only issue was that it was fully signed up as a  and went to the World Trade Center. Still that's better than nothing.

 

 

[Via Garibaldi 8]

21 minutes ago, Around the Horn said:

A few random thoughts from using the subway today:

1.  shuttle bus

If you're going to run the shuttle bus to 59th only, then you should do one of two things:

1. Make sure the  runs every ten minutes OR

2. Run extra  trains 

They did 3:  Run the  at 12-15 minute frequencies. Inexcusable. 

Otherwise the actual shuttle was decent. Dispatch at 59th tried to keep buses properly spaced out at every 5 minutes. Of course that fell apart at 8th Av where everyone would try to squeeze on one bus to the point that some could not physically close the doors. As a result several large gaps formed. Perhaps there should have been extra personnel at really busy stops...

And they should find a way to put the shuttle buses on BusTime. I think that would help.

2. Weekend supplemental schedules

If you're going to have a G.O. where track capacity is reduced, you should cut one line completely instead of cutting across the board. Case in point: the "12 minute headway" on the  today. I don't think a single interval was on time today. Multiple 15-20 minute waits and one 25 (!) minute wait. That's simply unacceptable if you're also expecting people to take the  train to an  shuttle bus.

Instead they should cut the  at Queens Plaza and run the  local or instead of cutting out trips entirely, run them to 96th on SAS instead.

An example from across the pond: Whenever there is CBTC work on the subsurface lines, one of the Circle or Hammersmith and City lines is completely suspended (with the other service running up to Barking) instead of cutting intervals on all of the lines on that section...

3. Baseball specials

Happened to come across one of the Yankees Specials at West 4th. I quite like that that they had it on the clock as a  to Canal St, to reduce confusion. The only issue was that it was fully signed up as a  and went to the World Trade Center. Still that's better than nothing.

 

 

And people said I was BS-ing when I complained about waits of 20+ minutes on here... 

[AlgorithmOfTruth]

23 hours ago, NoHacksJustKhaks said:

Funny to think that the MTA still had a ton of problems back then...

I use the acronym "MTA" and the word "problem" as synonyms.

[S78 via Hylan]

As of the lastest schedules, the  and  are scheduled for 12-minute intervals throughout the day on weekends.

[N6 Limited]

2 hours ago, Around the Horn said:

A few random thoughts from using the subway today:

1.  shuttle bus

If you're going to run the shuttle bus to 59th only, then you should do one of two things:

1. Make sure the  runs every ten minutes OR

2. Run extra  trains 

They did 3:  Run the  at 12-15 minute frequencies. Inexcusable. 

Otherwise the actual shuttle was decent. Dispatch at 59th tried to keep buses properly spaced out at every 5 minutes. Of course that fell apart at 8th Av where everyone would try to squeeze on one bus to the point that some could not physically close the doors. As a result several large gaps formed. Perhaps there should have been extra personnel at really busy stops...

And they should find a way to put the shuttle buses on BusTime. I think that would help.

2. Weekend supplemental schedules

If you're going to have a G.O. where track capacity is reduced, you should cut one line completely instead of cutting across the board. Case in point: the "12 minute headway" on the  today. I don't think a single interval was on time today. Multiple 15-20 minute waits and one 25 (!) minute wait. That's simply unacceptable if you're also expecting people to take the  train to an  shuttle bus.

Instead they should cut the  at Queens Plaza and run the  local or instead of cutting out trips entirely, run them to 96th on SAS instead.

An example from across the pond: Whenever there is CBTC work on the subsurface lines, one of the Circle or Hammersmith and City lines is completely suspended (with the other service running up to Barking) instead of cutting intervals on all of the lines on that section...

3. Baseball specials

Happened to come across one of the Yankees Specials at West 4th. I quite like that that they had it on the clock as a  to Canal St, to reduce confusion. The only issue was that it was fully signed up as a  and went to the World Trade Center. Still that's better than nothing.

 

 

1. Exactly, they think it's the wall of  service advisories causing off peak drop in ridership? LOL its ACTUAL SERVICE

2. I've been saying this for the longest. 

[Via Garibaldi 8]

48 minutes ago, N6 Limited said:

1. Exactly, they think it's the wall of  service advisories causing off peak drop in ridership? LOL its ACTUAL SERVICE

2. I've been saying this for the longest. 

EVERY line has planned work this weekend. Ridiculous. Not only that but you have to take shuttle buses too. I was Downtown today. Did a work around of the by getting on further up instead of below Chambers. 

[ABOGbrooklyn]

Yesterday someone committed suicide at 30th Ave station...

Does this scare any of you who aspire to become a train operator or already are? This is the only thing that makes me a bit paranoid to become a train operator..

[paulrivera]

By my count, the  all have cut service this weekend... is down from 5 minute to 8 minute headways, the  is on it's defacto permanent 20 minute headway, and the rest are on 12 minute headways.

With all the tourists out and about, these lines are all going to look like a weekday rush hour, but what else is new?

[Via Garibaldi 8]

1 hour ago, paulrivera said:

By my count, the  all have cut service this weekend... is down from 5 minute to 8 minute headways, the  is on it's defacto permanent 20 minute headway, and the rest are on 12 minute headways.

With all the tourists out and about, these lines are all going to look like a weekday rush hour, but what else is new?

Yeah I'm sticking to the express bus and walking today....

[BM5 via Woodhaven]

17 hours ago, Around the Horn said:

A few random thoughts from using the subway today:

1.  shuttle bus

If you're going to run the shuttle bus to 59th only, then you should do one of two things:

1. Make sure the  runs every ten minutes OR

2. Run extra  trains 

They did 3:  Run the  at 12-15 minute frequencies. Inexcusable. 

Otherwise the actual shuttle was decent. Dispatch at 59th tried to keep buses properly spaced out at every 5 minutes. Of course that fell apart at 8th Av where everyone would try to squeeze on one bus to the point that some could not physically close the doors. As a result several large gaps formed. Perhaps there should have been extra personnel at really busy stops...

And they should find a way to put the shuttle buses on BusTime. I think that would help.

2. Weekend supplemental schedules

If you're going to have a G.O. where track capacity is reduced, you should cut one line completely instead of cutting across the board. Case in point: the "12 minute headway" on the  today. I don't think a single interval was on time today. Multiple 15-20 minute waits and one 25 (!) minute wait. That's simply unacceptable if you're also expecting people to take the  train to an  shuttle bus.

Instead they should cut the  at Queens Plaza and run the  local or instead of cutting out trips entirely, run them to 96th on SAS instead.

 

 

The has had those gaps for the longest, so it's not surprising for me. I just wish they can finish the damn tunnel work on the Queens-Midtown Tunnel again, so that I can take the express bus again instead of the train. Taking the Q53/Q60 is so much better than taking the (or the QBL in general). 

 

One of the biggest issues is when everything goes either local or express in one direction, because when an arrives at Forest Hills, it has to fumigate. Last weekend, there was an sandwiched between two NB  trains 4 minutes apart. I can only imagine how everyone behind that second felt. 

Edited July 29, 2018 by BM5 via Woodhaven