BAHAH. I can make a whole list 1. You missed the bus 2. Your bus gets stuck in traffic 3. Pedestrians walk faster than your bus 4. You missed your whole conga line of buses just to wait 20 minutes for the next one to come 5. Oh yeah. THE CONGA LINE. There will be like 5 BUSES FOR NO REASON AT A STOP THAT BARELY ANYONE USES. 6. The Q64. If I can name a more redundant bus in the system. It’s the Q64. 7. Your bus is so overcrowded that you have like no breath room whatsoever (talking about you Q53 / M15) #Queenslink4Nyc 8. Close stops. WE DONT NEED STOPS AT EVERY SINGLE FUCKING STOP 9. Roads. Sometimes your bus ride is NOT smooth 10. Cars taking over bus lanes. Yeah ABLE is doing their thing and good. Those type of drivers deserve that sometimes, but still doing that regardless is just awful. 11. How you can see 5 buses that follow another route pass by before your bus comes. (Ex: Before I had to take the Q88 to the Queens Center Mall and I see like 5 Q17 buses pass by to turn to Kissena Blvd before my Q88 arrives) 12. You forgot you had no money in your metro card. 13. Your bus crashes. 14. Having to wait at the same light TWICE. 15. Not every bus has USB charges. 16. Not everyone pays the fare (SBS buses are you’re target for that) And just so that I won’t keep going on and bored you to death. 17. Manhattan Buses plainly existing (besides the existence of the M79, M86, M15, M14A/D, M34, and M60). The worst waiting times I’ve ever seen. I could go one but I need to sleep so bye!
You're right about needing a new tunnel to the Brooklyn Fulton St. line. What we really need is another double deck tunnel like 63 St. so the LIRR Brooklyn line can be extended into the financial district. The subway level should connect with the 2nd Ave line so the T train can replace the C in Brooklyn. The C can then terminate @ WTC. The only problem is it would wipe out the Transit Museum but the Court St. station was built for an additional East River tunnel. MTA's response to all your concerns: "If youse don't like it, TAKE A CAB!"
17 mph? That’s slower than Phoenix’s light rail, which has an average speed just shy of 20 mph. That’s for a street-running tram line cosplaying as a subway line. There are faster light rail systems than Phoenix’s (I think in Salt Lake City, the average speed is 24mph). Also, when it comes to out-of-control costs, the 2nd Avenue subway isn’t even the most expensive transit project that’s currently proposed. I’m pretty sure the San Jose BART extension is estimated to cost $4 billion per mile. Ballooning project costs seem to be a problem everywhere in the US. In Phoenix, light rail extensions used to cost around $100 million per mile, though with the 2 current extensions, that’s now over $200 million per mile, with the majority of the track in each section being street-running. The only expensive parts of the extensions are downtown track rework for the South Central extension and a bridge and elevated station with a parking garage for the Metrocenter extension (terminus stations usually have park-and-ride facilities). In Seattle, elevated light rail extensions seem to cost around $350 million per mile, though I don’t know what it was before COVID.
When they took the "M" out of south Brooklyn, they forced passengers to rely on the ineffective "R" line. I always thought it would have been better to run the 6th Avenue line from Broadway Junction instead of Metropolitan Avenue. I know railfans like this new pattern. But I like the fact the "J" would be able to skip an extra 4 stops. And you got a train tied to the yard. Note: Skipping an extra 4 stops might be all passengers heading to lower Manhattan need to convince them from the "E" train, which carries the bulk of the Queens Blvd passengers. Than the "M" could return to south Brooklyn to cover for the "R" to 95th Street.
@@qjtvaddict And mess up the only train that serves most of it corridor? Naw. The "R" at least get some help 1) when the "N" is group with it in south Brooklyn or during emergency delays. 2) The "W" has worked Wonders for filling in for the "R" and Yes "N" line. And the "M" via Queens Blvd. But the "J" has nothing if it gets delayed. So that is out. Note: during the World Trade Center situation, it was sent down to cover for the "R", while the "W" was covering the "N". But the "J" route is painfully slow on subway crew and that probably why it ends at Broad Street. Also the demand for it isn't until you get to Essex Street, which is why it was cut even further in the 1990s. So extended it to 95th Street would be just a waste of car set and crewmen. It is probably the reason the "M" was rerouted to 6th Avenue.
I agree! When they refurbished those two stations on the "J" line surrounding the "G" line I thought it was a good idea those two stations into one station. The "G" Broadway station sits right between these two stations.
I think the biggest flaw in the NYC Subway besides the delays and how the C train is completely sandwiched by the A is the politics. The politics is pretty much the reason why the NYC Subway is unable to have a massive expansion nowadays, even for unserved areas like Throggs Neck, Maspeth, Cambria Heights, Bayside, etc. Politics just unnecessarily gets in the way of massive expansions, and is practically what is holding up progress on the Second Avenue Subway. Wanna build phases 3 and 4 of the SAS with express tracks as originally intended by the IND Second System? Gotta deal with politics first. Maybe build an extension of the 2 and 5 further down Nostrand Avenue towards Manhattan Beach Park? Nope, politics is what you're gonna get. How about extend the G along Northern Boulevard towards Bayside, or maybe re-introduce the 8 and 9 by building a new branch from the 1 and 6 towards Throgs Neck? Perhaps you want to even extend the R train to Staten Island via the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, or extend the L to New Jersey, towards MetLife Stadium? Tough sh!t, A$$hole! Get smacked in the face with politics! Seriously, it seems as though the only way for politics to stop interfering with the MTA's Subway expansion plans is if the MTA itself were to be privatized. That, or The City of New York should be the owners of the MTA, not the State of New York as a whole.
The biggest problem with the NYC Subway that I can see is 'routes'. Every time I read about some change to the subway, it's always along the lines of rerouting trains onto this or that section of track, extending the XX train to serve YY, routes being de/interlined. It seems a complete mess down there. It sounds like other countries' bus routes, getting changed year upon year. Everywhere else in the world, there is a definite 'line' with a definite 'route' on it, and definite end points How did NYC evolve this weird dynamic system, where trains, destinations, lines, routes all seem to have no correlation to each other ?
Here is how I experienced those problems 1. It is so annoying to have to wait a long time for the A, C, and R trains when you’re in a rush. 2. I ride the a train from 125th St. to 59th St. a lot, and it’s annoying that the train doesn’t always go super fast. 3. I would like to see a stop consolidation of Hewes and Lorimer with a shiny new stop at Union Avenue. Quick note that the G was made by the IND and the J was made by the BMT at times when they didn’t want to connect with each other and one is underground and the other is elevated. 4. That is really annoying that it’s a park and not a railway line, the railway line is needed more. I would love to see your thoughts on Queensway. 5. it is so annoying to have to wait. 12 minutes for the C train. When it does come, it’s a crowded eight car train and is so uncomfortable. 6. Maybe we can de interline the junction? I don’t know much about the Sacred art of de interlining. 7. The MTA likes to overbuild like the IND before them. I would’ve liked to see the 6 track 2nd Ave. subway that the IND would’ve built. Sadly, the current form will not have four tracks, however, we could build 4 tracks at the same price that the MTA is doing with 2 if we can just do it right 8. We need to really figure out what’s going on and really try and reduce the cost and get rid of the craziness. 9. Wait times are crazy but we need to de interline to resolve that. 10 I took the seven Xpress recently and it was annoying how marginally faster than the local it was 11. It’s annoying to take the E train that stops at 169th Street on reroutes on weekends, run expressed to Kew Gardens, stop at 75th Ave, and then run express. It was crazy 12. I used to take the R train near Cortlandt Street every day. It’s the worst. 13. Another episode of the MTA screwing things up like they have to. The MTA legally have to screw everything up before they can install things. 14. It is the main thing that keeps the MTA from exercising all the projects in their needs assessment plan. They never agreed to fund the MTA Projects. 15. It’s annoying when the D train just stops at 25th St., because you think someone pulled the emergency brake and you can’t even evacuate the train.
#2 17mph is 10% faster than bicycle in the city. For example, when I was in great shape I rode at Ocean Parkway in the middle of the day with light traffic in general. I thought I was flying, as my speed would go easily to 25mph. So, with minor delays at intersections my average speed came out 15.4mph according to Strava. Trains have much more delays at every stop to let passengers in and out. So, 17mph is a great result in my opinion. #3 Transfer to G train is a pain everywhere except Court Sq. I think it's much more important to make G line busier by making a transfer between NBNE IRT local at Atlantic Ave to Fulton G train station. It's on the same level, no subway lines on the way and just few short blocks away. That immediately going to make G line very busy, adds transfer to Lafayette A/C line and then G/J transfer will get to the table for sure. #4 I hate to say it, but I support new Subway lines over Green Spaces, because it makes living better for much more people. It's great to share space and build bike/joggers lane on the side of the train line when possible. But, unfortunately, politicians in NYC lost their common sense long time ago. They took too much road space for bike lanes making it nearly impossible to drive through the city during the day. Shared bike lanes are more practical in most cases, just to remind drives about cyclists. And I don't care about personal cars much. Most important that buses and delivery trucks can't pass through. Slow buses are wasting our short lifetime and slow deliveries making goods expensive in stores (making us work harder or longer hours to buy same thing). Why do you need bike lane at Flatbush Ave? Everyone rides through Prospect park anyway. McDonald Ave by the cemetery? Schermerhorn St? How many bicycles do you see there a day?! (I can't say anything about other boroughs since I don't go there much) #8 & #14. Construction cost is super high not just because of current politics. NYC and NYCTA are over-regulated already. For example, full flagging is required for contractors to access a room just a few feet off the platform, on the bench wall. Most of politicians and MTA workers realized, that they can't compete in private sector if they will lose their current job. So, in addition to not fitting their positions in terms of skills and knowledge all those people are doing everything possible to protect themselves from losing a cozy spot. So, they write down such rules that sometimes makes impossible work being done, but it makes them avoid any responsibility on possible incidents etc. #15 Delays are caused by crime in most of cases: kids jumping on tracks, trowing large objects on the roadway, someone getting injured or killed at the platform or inside train. Trains themselves are very reliable and can still move even if half of the train motors will stop working. Tracks are maintained not the best way, but derailments are not happening too often and usually caused by debris on rails. Burnt light bulbs in traffic lights make more of an issue since train operators are not allowed to replace themselves anymore.
I think you should change the #10 spot cause you’re literally saying that it’s bad that the is faster than the (7) when it’s literally meant to be. An example of how to do it is that how a (Q) and (R) train call pull up at 14th st at the same time, and the Q leaves first just so that it can slow down on its track making the (R) train much more faster of a ride. Oh and the Q does arrive at 34th st first JUST SO IT WOULD WAIT 1 MINUTE FOR THE R TRAIN TO ARRIVE!!!!! (This happened to me actually lmao)
@@aqua2poweros699 what I actually said or what I actually meant for number 10 is that it’s annoying that the 7X is only a little bit faster than the regular seven train rather than much faster,
@@transitcaptain express trains are not designed to be faster, but to even out passenger loading. For example, the 2 and 3 expresses are only 5 minutes faster than the 1 local between 96th Street and Chambers Street on the 7th Avenue line. I'm a retired train operator, by the way.
C Train. The "A" has the overwhelming demand. But a concession could be made for creating a "H" line out of one of those "A" trains. Run it to Rockaway Park or Lefferts Blvd. Local in Brooklyn. Express 8th Avenue. But it's hard to justify this, because nobody wants to sit on a local all the way out in the Rockaways. And I agree with them. They could create a shuttle between Far Rockaway and Rockaway Park. That would get one "A" train. But would negate it by removing a one seat ride. So no go there. But it would at least increase "C" service. Another idea would be creating an "H" line from Euclid Avenue to run as a Brooklyn local with the "C". Than switch over to the "F" after Jay Street. It new terminal would be 2nd Avenue unless they can couple it with the "Q" Second Avenue Line to 96th Street. Being that the "M" is coming out of Brooklyn, there should be no conflicts with it since 2nd Avenue would be the terminal. Having All these services as local on 6th Avenue might be overkill however, which is why I suggested 2nd Avenue. Because the "M" is more important than anything going through 63rd Street.
Man EVERYTHING you said was spot on!! I think the the politics reason practically is the umbrella ☂ over all other reasons. It is unfortunate that the J and G can’t connect at Lorimer and Broadway. I think in their minds they are thinking that there is already two trains going to and fro the east that connect to the G line, so I wouldn’t expect much hope for that. But what’s even worse is how they spent all that time and money building a glass overpass at Livonia Avenue on the L instead of extending the footbridge just by a little bit to make the connection to Junius on the 3. That could’ve taken much less time and money. For some reason, they thought building a smooth connection at 62nd and New Utrecht was more important which is more work. And yes please make a video about how Queensway is a waste of a project and a disservice to residents who wish to travel through Queens in reasonable amount of time at a low cost. Just hearing about the Dekalb Junction just makes me irritated. You can’t win with that. At least with Rogers Junction you have some hope that the Eastern Parkway and Nostrand Avenue lines don’t pull into Franklin Avenue across from each other at the same time. And for those conductors…I really feel sorry for someone trying to catch the train and they close it in their face refusing to open it. They even cut the announcement short to close the doors quicker. Now recently, if the station has police presence, that gives people just a couple of extra seconds to make the train. I honestly don’t agree with the Second Avenue subway. All that money and time just for it to be one borough is ridiculous to me. They could have saved money and built bus rapid transit or light rail.
A discrepancy with something that New York City Transit has done is to shorten the G Line from 71 Street-Continental Avenue to Court Square. I would wish the G Train return to its former terminus. As for the budget for New York City is concerned, more funds would have been possible if every passenger paid their own fares, and not to commit fare evasion, that actually is "stealing a ride." Also, you just piqued my concern that I had when I was a little kid was watching the local trains beat the express trains, especially on straight track. Your report is comprehensive and impressive. Also, I am a railroad buff.
@@aqua2poweros699 it’s been an out of system transfer for a while. That glass overpass they built was not necessary at all. All they needed to do was slightly extend the footbridge for a little bit and they could’ve built an elevator, escalator, or even just stairs that lead up to the edge of the (3) platform. Would’ve taken less time and saved lots of money. Probably no more than a total of $60k. Meanwhile they focused on other areas of the MTA that costed more.
When I was commuting from Downtown Brooklyn to my local YMCA, the conductor of the Franklin Avenue Shuttle train I almost missed at Botanic Garden actually had the courtesy to reopen the doors of the train to let me and a few others aboard. So why can’t it be with all other lines?
Queensway will take a way transit for The Rockaway Beach from Parkside Metropolitan Avenue Queens and Ozark Park Liberty Avenue for the (M) train for Queens Link. I prefer Queens Link over Queensway. The (C) Train should be operating 10-Cars, not 8-Cars. Plus the (C) Train should be extend to South Jamaica Linden Boulevard Station in Queens. The (A) Train should handle the Far Rockaway Mott Avenue Station in Queens/Rockaway Park Beach 116th Street Station in Queens. Queens Link should happen in the future for the (M) Train to Far Rockaway Mott Avenue Station in Queens/Rockaway Park Beach 116th Street Station in Queens with the (A) Train's. Plus the (F)/(M) Train's swap should also happen with Queens Boulevard as well. Especially the (D)/(Q) Train's swap. Have the (F) Train operate in the 53rd Street Tunnel with the (E) Train to release the over crowing, obviously confusion and delay in Lexington Avenue/53rd Street Station in Manhattan for the (6) Train. The (M) Train should be operate on the 63rd Street Tunnel because Lexington Avenue/63rd Street Station in Queens is only a transfer for the (Q) Train. The (G) should return to QBL except late nights. The (G)/(R) Train's should end up in Queens Plaza Station in Queens during late nights service. Also Queens Plaza Station and Queensbro Plaza Station in Queens should be connecting to each other to transfer whether is the (E)/(F)/(G)/(N)/(R)/(W)/(7) Train's. The (D) should operate in Brighton Express to Coney Island Stillwell Surf Avenue's Station in Brooklyn. The (B) should operate Local in Brighton to Ocean Parkway Station in Brooklyn, except late nights. The (D) should operate Brighton Local Line during late nights when there's no (B) Train service to Coney Island Stillwell Surf Avenue's Station. The (Q) should operate in 4th Avenue Express Line via West End to Coney Island Stillwell Surf Avenue's Station in Brooklyn. Late nights for (Q) should operate in 4th Avenue Local Line via West End Line to Coney Island Stillwell Surf Avenue's Station in Brooklyn. West End Line, Culver Line in Brooklyn should add the 4th Track for Express service. Plus the Concourse Line should add the 4th track for Express service for the (B)/(D), so that the (B)/(D) have they're own track. Especially the (2)/(4)/(5) Line's in The Bronx to add the 4th Track for Express Service. The B.M.T. Jamaica Line for the (J)/(Z) Line's should add the 4th track so that the (J)/(Z) could have they're own track in Queens and Brooklyn for Jamaica Line. Especially the (1)/(6) Lines in The Bronx. That's my opinion.
Love it how there is a dedicated spot for the (C). But you forgot the true line that never comes. The (B). And the most inconsistent, the (D). How does West End deal with the (D)?
You customers are annoyed at having to swipe multiple times ? Di you literally mean 'swipe' ? What are they using ? Magnetic Stripes, like they used to use on the back of bank cards ? When we had mag stripe ticket gates in UK, they were pulled in, flat, with a motor, and returned. These, however, we single use tickets. Are we really saying that the MTA uses cardboady ticket with mag stripes on them, and that they have a 'balance' stored on them for multiple journey use ? Not the best technology, for what is supposed to be one of the richest cities in the USA
How to solve the DeKalb/Myrtle Avenue mess: add two switches south of 36th Street in Brooklyn. Then you can de-interline the thing without ever needing to touch the spaghetti that is north of DeKalb.
Simply have all broadway express trains go to the Brighton line and all 6th ave express trains to 4th ave bypass dekalb on all 6th ave express trains just take the local one stop over to Atlantic
@@qjtvaddict Fourth Avenue essentially has three lines: Fourth Avenue itself, West End, and Sea Beach. While you could have Sixth Ave Express trains solve two of those (Van Shookenragen's plan actually suggests exactly this), you'd need to solve for the third, and that's really only feasible with Broadway or the J without a major construction project.
For every 15 things wrong with the subway, there are 150 wrong with the buses
Tell me about it. Waiting 20 for minutes for just the bus is straight up absurd.
@@TransitTalkNYC Waiting very long for the bus is no fun on the street. That is one disadvantage I know about surface transportation.
BAHAH.
I can make a whole list
1. You missed the bus
2. Your bus gets stuck in traffic
3. Pedestrians walk faster than your bus
4. You missed your whole conga line of buses just to wait 20 minutes for the next one to come
5. Oh yeah. THE CONGA LINE. There will be like 5 BUSES FOR NO REASON AT A STOP THAT BARELY ANYONE USES.
6. The Q64. If I can name a more redundant bus in the system. It’s the Q64.
7. Your bus is so overcrowded that you have like no breath room whatsoever (talking about you Q53 / M15) #Queenslink4Nyc
8. Close stops. WE DONT NEED STOPS AT EVERY SINGLE FUCKING STOP
9. Roads. Sometimes your bus ride is NOT smooth
10. Cars taking over bus lanes. Yeah ABLE is doing their thing and good. Those type of drivers deserve that sometimes, but still doing that regardless is just awful.
11. How you can see 5 buses that follow another route pass by before your bus comes. (Ex: Before I had to take the Q88 to the Queens Center Mall and I see like 5 Q17 buses pass by to turn to Kissena Blvd before my Q88 arrives)
12. You forgot you had no money in your metro card.
13. Your bus crashes.
14. Having to wait at the same light TWICE.
15. Not every bus has USB charges.
16. Not everyone pays the fare (SBS buses are you’re target for that)
And just so that I won’t keep going on and bored you to death.
17. Manhattan Buses plainly existing (besides the existence of the M79, M86, M15, M14A/D, M34, and M60). The worst waiting times I’ve ever seen.
I could go one but I need to sleep so bye!
Would you rather ride a electric scooter instead of Subway or bus?
Asians be like:L🤓🤓
You're right about needing a new tunnel to the Brooklyn Fulton St. line. What we really need is another double deck tunnel like 63 St. so the LIRR Brooklyn line can be extended into the financial district. The subway level should connect with the 2nd Ave line so the T train can replace the C in Brooklyn. The C can then terminate @ WTC. The only problem is it would wipe out the Transit Museum but the Court St. station was built for an additional East River tunnel. MTA's response to all your concerns: "If youse don't like it, TAKE A CAB!"
Interesting so tunnels for LIRR and R/W to replace the C line in Brooklyn. Let 4th ave local be given to the J/Z trains.
17 mph? That’s slower than Phoenix’s light rail, which has an average speed just shy of 20 mph. That’s for a street-running tram line cosplaying as a subway line. There are faster light rail systems than Phoenix’s (I think in Salt Lake City, the average speed is 24mph).
Also, when it comes to out-of-control costs, the 2nd Avenue subway isn’t even the most expensive transit project that’s currently proposed. I’m pretty sure the San Jose BART extension is estimated to cost $4 billion per mile. Ballooning project costs seem to be a problem everywhere in the US. In Phoenix, light rail extensions used to cost around $100 million per mile, though with the 2 current extensions, that’s now over $200 million per mile, with the majority of the track in each section being street-running. The only expensive parts of the extensions are downtown track rework for the South Central extension and a bridge and elevated station with a parking garage for the Metrocenter extension (terminus stations usually have park-and-ride facilities). In Seattle, elevated light rail extensions seem to cost around $350 million per mile, though I don’t know what it was before COVID.
5:15 Remember, the MTA is almost going broke
When they took the "M" out of south Brooklyn, they forced passengers to rely on the ineffective "R" line.
I always thought it would have been better to run the 6th Avenue line from Broadway Junction instead of Metropolitan Avenue.
I know railfans like this new pattern. But I like the fact the "J" would be able to skip an extra 4 stops. And you got a train tied to the yard.
Note: Skipping an extra 4 stops might be all passengers heading to lower Manhattan need to convince them from the "E" train, which carries the bulk of the Queens Blvd passengers.
Than the "M" could return to south Brooklyn to cover for the "R" to 95th Street.
Just send the J to 95th street
@@qjtvaddict And mess up the only train that serves most of it corridor? Naw.
The "R" at least get some help 1) when the "N" is group with it in south Brooklyn or during emergency delays. 2) The "W" has worked Wonders for filling in for the "R" and Yes "N" line. And the "M" via Queens Blvd.
But the "J" has nothing if it gets delayed. So that is out.
Note: during the World Trade Center situation, it was sent down to cover for the "R", while the "W" was covering the "N".
But the "J" route is painfully slow on subway crew and that probably why it ends at Broad Street.
Also the demand for it isn't until you get to Essex Street, which is why it was cut even further in the 1990s.
So extended it to 95th Street would be just a waste of car set and crewmen. It is probably the reason the "M" was rerouted to 6th Avenue.
I agree! When they refurbished those two stations on the "J" line surrounding the "G" line I thought it was a good idea those two stations into one station. The "G" Broadway station sits right between these two stations.
call it “Union Avenue-Broadway”
@@DnD_Robb404 Broadway Union Junction. But than the other junction up the line would have to Change to Broadway Fulton Junction.
I loved the thumbnail 😂, I always commuted to my cousin's at MacDonald Avenue from Astoria, and N line was a disaster after Manhattan
I think the biggest flaw in the NYC Subway besides the delays and how the C train is completely sandwiched by the A is the politics. The politics is pretty much the reason why the NYC Subway is unable to have a massive expansion nowadays, even for unserved areas like Throggs Neck, Maspeth, Cambria Heights, Bayside, etc. Politics just unnecessarily gets in the way of massive expansions, and is practically what is holding up progress on the Second Avenue Subway.
Wanna build phases 3 and 4 of the SAS with express tracks as originally intended by the IND Second System? Gotta deal with politics first. Maybe build an extension of the 2 and 5 further down Nostrand Avenue towards Manhattan Beach Park? Nope, politics is what you're gonna get. How about extend the G along Northern Boulevard towards Bayside, or maybe re-introduce the 8 and 9 by building a new branch from the 1 and 6 towards Throgs Neck? Perhaps you want to even extend the R train to Staten Island via the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, or extend the L to New Jersey, towards MetLife Stadium? Tough sh!t, A$$hole! Get smacked in the face with politics!
Seriously, it seems as though the only way for politics to stop interfering with the MTA's Subway expansion plans is if the MTA itself were to be privatized. That, or The City of New York should be the owners of the MTA, not the State of New York as a whole.
The biggest problem with the NYC Subway that I can see is 'routes'. Every time I read about some change to the subway, it's always along the lines of rerouting trains onto this or that section of track, extending the XX train to serve YY, routes being de/interlined.
It seems a complete mess down there. It sounds like other countries' bus routes, getting changed year upon year.
Everywhere else in the world, there is a definite 'line' with a definite 'route' on it, and definite end points
How did NYC evolve this weird dynamic system, where trains, destinations, lines, routes all seem to have no correlation to each other ?
The reason why Andy Blyford resigned... Politics.
Here is how I experienced those problems
1. It is so annoying to have to wait a long time for the A, C, and R trains when you’re in a rush.
2. I ride the a train from 125th St. to 59th St. a lot, and it’s annoying that the train doesn’t always go super fast.
3. I would like to see a stop consolidation of Hewes and Lorimer with a shiny new stop at Union Avenue. Quick note that the G was made by the IND and the J was made by the BMT at times when they didn’t want to connect with each other and one is underground and the other is elevated.
4. That is really annoying that it’s a park and not a railway line, the railway line is needed more. I would love to see your thoughts on Queensway.
5. it is so annoying to have to wait. 12 minutes for the C train. When it does come, it’s a crowded eight car train and is so uncomfortable.
6. Maybe we can de interline the junction? I don’t know much about the Sacred art of de interlining.
7. The MTA likes to overbuild like the IND before them. I would’ve liked to see the 6 track 2nd Ave. subway that the IND would’ve built. Sadly, the current form will not have four tracks, however, we could build 4 tracks at the same price that the MTA is doing with 2 if we can just do it right
8. We need to really figure out what’s going on and really try and reduce the cost and get rid of the craziness.
9. Wait times are crazy but we need to de interline to resolve that.
10 I took the seven Xpress recently and it was annoying how marginally faster than the local it was
11. It’s annoying to take the E train that stops at 169th Street on reroutes on weekends, run expressed to Kew Gardens, stop at 75th Ave, and then run express. It was crazy
12. I used to take the R train near Cortlandt Street every day. It’s the worst.
13. Another episode of the MTA screwing things up like they have to. The MTA legally have to screw everything up before they can install things.
14. It is the main thing that keeps the MTA from exercising all the projects in their needs assessment plan. They never agreed to fund the MTA Projects.
15. It’s annoying when the D train just stops at 25th St., because you think someone pulled the emergency brake and you can’t even evacuate the train.
#2 17mph is 10% faster than bicycle in the city. For example, when I was in great shape I rode at Ocean Parkway in the middle of the day with light traffic in general. I thought I was flying, as my speed would go easily to 25mph. So, with minor delays at intersections my average speed came out 15.4mph according to Strava. Trains have much more delays at every stop to let passengers in and out. So, 17mph is a great result in my opinion.
#3 Transfer to G train is a pain everywhere except Court Sq. I think it's much more important to make G line busier by making a transfer between NBNE IRT local at Atlantic Ave to Fulton G train station. It's on the same level, no subway lines on the way and just few short blocks away. That immediately going to make G line very busy, adds transfer to Lafayette A/C line and then G/J transfer will get to the table for sure.
#4 I hate to say it, but I support new Subway lines over Green Spaces, because it makes living better for much more people. It's great to share space and build bike/joggers lane on the side of the train line when possible. But, unfortunately, politicians in NYC lost their common sense long time ago. They took too much road space for bike lanes making it nearly impossible to drive through the city during the day. Shared bike lanes are more practical in most cases, just to remind drives about cyclists. And I don't care about personal cars much. Most important that buses and delivery trucks can't pass through. Slow buses are wasting our short lifetime and slow deliveries making goods expensive in stores (making us work harder or longer hours to buy same thing). Why do you need bike lane at Flatbush Ave? Everyone rides through Prospect park anyway. McDonald Ave by the cemetery? Schermerhorn St? How many bicycles do you see there a day?! (I can't say anything about other boroughs since I don't go there much)
#8 & #14. Construction cost is super high not just because of current politics. NYC and NYCTA are over-regulated already. For example, full flagging is required for contractors to access a room just a few feet off the platform, on the bench wall. Most of politicians and MTA workers realized, that they can't compete in private sector if they will lose their current job. So, in addition to not fitting their positions in terms of skills and knowledge all those people are doing everything possible to protect themselves from losing a cozy spot. So, they write down such rules that sometimes makes impossible work being done, but it makes them avoid any responsibility on possible incidents etc.
#15 Delays are caused by crime in most of cases: kids jumping on tracks, trowing large objects on the roadway, someone getting injured or killed at the platform or inside train. Trains themselves are very reliable and can still move even if half of the train motors will stop working. Tracks are maintained not the best way, but derailments are not happening too often and usually caused by debris on rails. Burnt light bulbs in traffic lights make more of an issue since train operators are not allowed to replace themselves anymore.
Thank you for your thoughts!
I think you should change the #10 spot cause you’re literally saying that it’s bad that the is faster than the (7) when it’s literally meant to be.
An example of how to do it is that how a (Q) and (R) train call pull up at 14th st at the same time, and the Q leaves first just so that it can slow down on its track making the (R) train much more faster of a ride. Oh and the Q does arrive at 34th st first JUST SO IT WOULD WAIT 1 MINUTE FOR THE R TRAIN TO ARRIVE!!!!! (This happened to me actually lmao)
@@aqua2poweros699 what I actually said or what I actually meant for number 10 is that it’s annoying that the 7X is only a little bit faster than the regular seven train rather than much faster,
@@transitcaptain express trains are not designed to be faster, but to even out passenger loading. For example, the 2 and 3 expresses are only 5 minutes faster than the 1 local between 96th Street and Chambers Street on the 7th Avenue line. I'm a retired train operator, by the way.
C Train. The "A" has the overwhelming demand. But a concession could be made for creating a "H" line out of one of those "A" trains. Run it to Rockaway Park or Lefferts Blvd. Local in Brooklyn. Express 8th Avenue.
But it's hard to justify this, because nobody wants to sit on a local all the way out in the Rockaways. And I agree with them.
They could create a shuttle between Far Rockaway and Rockaway Park. That would get one "A" train. But would negate it by removing a one seat ride.
So no go there. But it would at least increase "C" service.
Another idea would be creating an "H" line from Euclid Avenue to run as a Brooklyn local with the "C". Than switch over to the "F" after Jay Street. It new terminal would be 2nd Avenue unless they can couple it with the "Q" Second Avenue Line to 96th Street.
Being that the "M" is coming out of Brooklyn, there should be no conflicts with it since 2nd Avenue would be the terminal.
Having All these services as local on 6th Avenue might be overkill however, which is why I suggested 2nd Avenue. Because the "M" is more important than anything going through 63rd Street.
Man EVERYTHING you said was spot on!! I think the the politics reason practically is the umbrella ☂ over all other reasons.
It is unfortunate that the J and G can’t connect at Lorimer and Broadway. I think in their minds they are thinking that there is already two trains going to and fro the east that connect to the G line, so I wouldn’t expect much hope for that. But what’s even worse is how they spent all that time and money building a glass overpass at Livonia Avenue on the L instead of extending the footbridge just by a little bit to make the connection to Junius on the 3. That could’ve taken much less time and money. For some reason, they thought building a smooth connection at 62nd and New Utrecht was more important which is more work.
And yes please make a video about how Queensway is a waste of a project and a disservice to residents who wish to travel through Queens in reasonable amount of time at a low cost.
Just hearing about the Dekalb Junction just makes me irritated. You can’t win with that. At least with Rogers Junction you have some hope that the Eastern Parkway and Nostrand Avenue lines don’t pull into Franklin Avenue across from each other at the same time.
And for those conductors…I really feel sorry for someone trying to catch the train and they close it in their face refusing to open it. They even cut the announcement short to close the doors quicker. Now recently, if the station has police presence, that gives people just a couple of extra seconds to make the train.
I honestly don’t agree with the Second Avenue subway. All that money and time just for it to be one borough is ridiculous to me. They could have saved money and built bus rapid transit or light rail.
I like to see train delays as if I got caught in traffic if I was driving 😂
A discrepancy with something that New York City Transit has done is to shorten the G Line from 71 Street-Continental Avenue to Court Square. I would wish the G Train return to its former terminus. As for the budget for New York City is concerned, more funds would have been possible if every passenger paid their own fares, and not to commit fare evasion, that actually is "stealing a ride." Also, you just piqued my concern that I had when I was a little kid was watching the local trains beat the express trains, especially on straight track. Your report is comprehensive and impressive. Also, I am a railroad buff.
When the 6 Train behind schedule and starts skip the local stops. When train to and from 3 Av 138 St & Hunts Point.
I expected number 3 to be on here lol
Also yes I would want a full episode of Alexei, Edward and Justin screaming about Queensway
You also mean how they still couldn’t connect Livonia Avenue on the L and Junius on the 3 right
It’s currently an Out of System Transfer. They are going to make it in system once Junius st (3) gets elevators.
@@aqua2poweros699 it’s been an out of system transfer for a while. That glass overpass they built was not necessary at all. All they needed to do was slightly extend the footbridge for a little bit and they could’ve built an elevator, escalator, or even just stairs that lead up to the edge of the (3) platform. Would’ve taken less time and saved lots of money. Probably no more than a total of $60k. Meanwhile they focused on other areas of the MTA that costed more.
The Queensway is absolutely moronic. I really hope it doesn’t happen
When I was commuting from Downtown Brooklyn to my local YMCA, the conductor of the Franklin Avenue Shuttle train I almost missed at Botanic Garden actually had the courtesy to reopen the doors of the train to let me and a few others aboard. So why can’t it be with all other lines?
As slow as the 1 is ITS STILL FASTER than the bus the M20 is very useless.
Queensway will take a way transit for The Rockaway Beach from Parkside Metropolitan Avenue Queens and Ozark Park Liberty Avenue for the (M) train for Queens Link. I prefer Queens Link over Queensway. The (C) Train should be operating 10-Cars, not 8-Cars. Plus the (C) Train should be extend to South Jamaica Linden Boulevard Station in Queens. The (A) Train should handle the Far Rockaway Mott Avenue Station in Queens/Rockaway Park Beach 116th Street Station in Queens. Queens Link should happen in the future for the (M) Train to Far Rockaway Mott Avenue Station in Queens/Rockaway Park Beach 116th Street Station in Queens with the (A) Train's. Plus the (F)/(M) Train's swap should also happen with Queens Boulevard as well. Especially the (D)/(Q) Train's swap. Have the (F) Train operate in the 53rd Street Tunnel with the (E) Train to release the over crowing, obviously confusion and delay in Lexington Avenue/53rd Street Station in Manhattan for the (6) Train. The (M) Train should be operate on the 63rd Street Tunnel because Lexington Avenue/63rd Street Station in Queens is only a transfer for the (Q) Train. The (G) should return to QBL except late nights. The (G)/(R) Train's should end up in Queens Plaza Station in Queens during late nights service. Also Queens Plaza Station and Queensbro Plaza Station in Queens should be connecting to each other to transfer whether is the (E)/(F)/(G)/(N)/(R)/(W)/(7) Train's. The (D) should operate in Brighton Express to Coney Island Stillwell Surf Avenue's Station in Brooklyn. The (B) should operate Local in Brighton to Ocean Parkway Station in Brooklyn, except late nights. The (D) should operate Brighton Local Line during late nights when there's no (B) Train service to Coney Island Stillwell Surf Avenue's Station. The (Q) should operate in 4th Avenue Express Line via West End to Coney Island Stillwell Surf Avenue's Station in Brooklyn. Late nights for (Q) should operate in 4th Avenue Local Line via West End Line to Coney Island Stillwell Surf Avenue's Station in Brooklyn. West End Line, Culver Line in Brooklyn should add the 4th Track for Express service. Plus the Concourse Line should add the 4th track for Express service for the (B)/(D), so that the (B)/(D) have they're own track. Especially the (2)/(4)/(5) Line's in The Bronx to add the 4th Track for Express Service. The B.M.T. Jamaica Line for the (J)/(Z) Line's should add the 4th track so that the (J)/(Z) could have they're own track in Queens and Brooklyn for Jamaica Line. Especially the (1)/(6) Lines in The Bronx. That's my opinion.
My thought bums taking up seats and relieving themselves
Love it how there is a dedicated spot for the (C). But you forgot the true line that never comes. The (B). And the most inconsistent, the (D). How does West End deal with the (D)?
Grade Junctions sucks
For 1 you said the rockaways were bad
Fulton st local *hold my beer*
12 minute headways
3:28
WTH MTA
You customers are annoyed at having to swipe multiple times ? Di you literally mean 'swipe' ? What are they using ? Magnetic Stripes, like they used to use on the back of bank cards ? When we had mag stripe ticket gates in UK, they were pulled in, flat, with a motor, and returned. These, however, we single use tickets. Are we really saying that the MTA uses cardboady ticket with mag stripes on them, and that they have a 'balance' stored on them for multiple journey use ? Not the best technology, for what is supposed to be one of the richest cities in the USA
15 things commuters love about the subway?
Who wants to buy and ride e scooters instead of subway?
The "J" is 15 to 30 line.
That thumbnail pains me 💀
How to solve the DeKalb/Myrtle Avenue mess: add two switches south of 36th Street in Brooklyn. Then you can de-interline the thing without ever needing to touch the spaghetti that is north of DeKalb.
That is the plan that we favor.
@@jointransitassociation Thank VanShookenragen for it.
Simply have all broadway express trains go to the Brighton line and all 6th ave express trains to 4th ave bypass dekalb on all 6th ave express trains just take the local one stop over to Atlantic
@@qjtvaddict Fourth Avenue essentially has three lines: Fourth Avenue itself, West End, and Sea Beach. While you could have Sixth Ave Express trains solve two of those (Van Shookenragen's plan actually suggests exactly this), you'd need to solve for the third, and that's really only feasible with Broadway or the J without a major construction project.
i feel like some conductors like ending up on r/f$!@youinpaticular