^ Regarding station cooling, 100% the answer is geothermal heat pumps. The technology is amazingly simple and could be done cost effectively.

booo hisss !!!




BUSES

Transit Chief’s Bronx Jeer as City Hall Nixes Fordham Road Revamp

The Adams administration killed the plan to create bus-only lanes along one of the city’s slowest mass-transit thoroughfares in the face of local business and political opposition.

BY JOSE MARTINEZ SEP 22, 2023, 5:42PM EDT
ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY JONATHAN CUSTODIO


The head of New York City Transit is concerned that the collapse Friday of plans to speed bus service along a key Bronx corridor could spell trouble for similar efforts across the city.

Richard Davey, president of the MTA division that operates the bus, subway and paratransit systems, told THE CITY on Friday afternoon that the “perplexing” decision by the Adams administration to scrap long-planned upgrades along busy Fordham Road under political pressure is “disappointing.”

“Fordham Road, those 85,000 bus customers — that’s more bus customers than you have in St. Louis or Cleveland,” Davey said. “This is not just some meaningless area, it’s a big deal.”


more:
https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/9/22/23...fordham-revamp

Like most of what NYCT plans, the Fordham Rd plan was half assed anyway. Bx12 should be a premier tramway ala one of the T lines in Paris. Literally every transit agency in the world could see that except the MTA.

the post crabs about the wasteful mta overbuilding process, the lirr port jeff expansion and the ibx:



MTA’s backward design process puts consultants in charge, adds millions of dollars in costs, insiders say

By Nolan Hicks
Published Sep. 17, 2023


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Researchers at New York University’s Marron Institute have fingered the MTA’s reliance on outside firms as a major contributor to the record-shattering price tag of the Second Avenue Subway’s first phase through the Upper East Side.

As part of the project, caverns dug for its platforms were double the necessary size, and station designs were so bespoke that each of the three new stops has escalators made by a different manufacturer.

“Agencies need to be able to clearly define scope – what they want – and tell consultants what they need them to do,” said Eric Goldwyn, who led the team that produced a 424-page report which compared how the MTA builds projects to other major transit agencies across the globe.

“And when they can’t do that, there’s uncertainty. And that’s when projects sprawl out of control,” he said.


more:
https://nypost.com/2023/09/17/mtas-b...lars-in-costs/

unpacking the new open gangway subway cars — :tup:


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Well, shit.

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the push to tear down the fdr south of the brooklyn bridge —


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another push for 7 train to nj —




Extend NYC subway to New Jersey?

TED GOLDBERG | OCTOBER 3, 2023 | TRANSPORTATION

Reps. Pascrell and Menendez make a pitch


New York’s plan to charge a new toll on drivers entering lower Manhattan is moving ahead despite the vehement opposition of New Jersey politicians. But some Garden State leaders are still hoping to bring more direct benefits of congestion pricing to New Jersey.

Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-9th) and Rep. Rob Menendez (D-8th) sent a letter to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Traffic Mobility Review Board last week urging the agency to couple congestion pricing with the extension of the 7 train line to Secaucus via a new subway tunnel under the Hudson River. Such an extension — which would be the first MTA line to cross state borders — would allow commuters transferring from New Jersey Transit trains to directly access Grand Central Station and points in Queens


more:
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/vide...to-new-jersey/

^ Sounds like a good idea but isn't the main reason that PATH is a separate system is that it can cross state lines due to be classified as a railroad while the subway can't?

I don't know about classification technicalities, that's probably not an issue if politics wanted to achieve a transit goal. My issue is that an L-Canarsie line extension to Secaucus is a better concept than a 7-Flushing line under the Hudson. Another obvious trans-Hudson subway extension would be to send the 125 St leg of the SAS under the river to Fort Lee. MTA should engineer into a 125 St crosstown leg a bare bones minimum provision to have that remain a possibility in the future. Most other world operators would be thinking about that and I don't think it's too much to ask the MTA to do the same.

The reason why PATH is a separate system is because it is financed by a different agency, not MTA. Same for the JFK airtrain, which does not cross any state lines.
NYC metro area is very fragmented and municipalities and agencies just do their own thing with little coordination. Thats how we get separate turnstiles going from airport train to the subway, PATH being a separate system, or commuter trains that are not through-running, but terminate in Manhattan (which is very expensive).

its like that sometimes — :shrug::haha:


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agree of course, but the fact is any and all three of these extensions to nj are good ideas. it seems like at least one would be an obvious gimmee to actually do, but nobody coordinates this across agencies, cities and states. maybe this time its different with some backing for a 7 train extension??? we’ll see if it goes anywhere. :shrug:

I think it would be better to add more PATH routes instead of extending the Subway to New Jersey ...

Have the 7 Train and L Train meet up at Penn Station South with a PATH line ...

Also possibly convert some of the Port Authority Bus Terminal tunnels into PATH trains too.

Gateway Tunnel Project begins construction, linking New York City and New Jersey

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The C train should go across the GWB Lower Level which was designed for it...the tracks touch 95 already. After Fort Lee i'd extend it to Englewood and connect with the proposed Northern Branch LRT and Route 4 BRT.

IND history is a bit wisht-washy about this. Nowhere have I read that there was ever a real plan for subway extension across the GWB, only that the lower deck's engineering could in theory accommodate one. The fact that the 174 St yard tracks appear to provide for this possibility is just that: the city covering the bases in case this connection was ever seriously contemplated. The fact that Second System documents don't propose a Hudson crossing leads me to believe it was never seriously contemplated. I don't think an 8th Av subway connection would be ideal anyway for reasons I won't get into here.

More than a subway across the GWB, I'd much rather see an inner orbital regional rail metro that creates the circle: Newark > JC > Fort Lee > Bronx > Queens > Brooklyn > SI > Newark.

yes, but i would take a loop service any way we can get it even if less than ideal.

ie., a restoration of the north shore staten island line service over to the bayonne light rail station seems like a doable gimmee, albeit with an expensive rail bridge needed, but unfortunately mta is determined to resurrect the old north shore rail as a local staten brt line:

https://new.mta.info/system_modernization/northshorebrt

^ given that, i would prefer a bridge to bridge trolley (verrazano bridge/bayonne bridge) along bay street/richmond terrace as its more in line with north shore redevelopment plans, but whatever. :shrug:

New Jersey Wants a Nearly $11B Turnpike Widening From Newark to Jersey City

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https://www.constructionequipmentgui...sey-city/62802

first time dancing on the new train cars — :haha:


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