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in good news —
no more rat tunnel construction zone shops aren’t back yet, but — the bright new penn concourse — :tup: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cu1sE...RlODBiNWFlZA== |
how it really is these days —
well maybe not the window thing tho :haha: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwIjx...RlODBiNWFlZA== |
Times Square got wet
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Brooklyn Bound A train at Broad Channel Station
https://photos.smugmug.com/Infrastru...DSC_7223-L.jpg Broad Channel Bound Shuttle train approach the Jamaica Bay Bridge https://photos.smugmug.com/Infrastru...DSC_7250-L.jpg 6 train near Whitlock Ave https://photos.smugmug.com/Infrastru...DSC_7377-L.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/Infrastru...DSC_7380-L.jpg |
^Anybody know if the truss span bridge before Whitlock Ave there is needing replacement and if it's been mentioned in any MTA capital plans?
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^ i dk, but i hope not becasue it could be replaced. i like it as is.
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^ That looks fake like most of those crazy people of new york staged videos. People need to get a life.
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continuing work on what to do about the cross bronx scars —
Reimagining Cross Bronx effort to host ‘walkshops’ in September, October By Aliya Schneider Posted on August 28, 2023 The city will host walking tours in September and October as part of a study of the Cross Bronx Expressway that is meant to find ways to lessen the highway’s negative impacts on surrounding communities while keeping the artery intact. more: https://www.bxtimes.com/reimagining-...onx-walkshops/ |
wait, is this what the new train interiors are? cattle cars?? :hell:
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That's the Times Sq-Grand Central shuttle.
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^ i thought some of the new train cars are like that?
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the first of 120 congestion pricing toll readers have been installed on the uws —
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Could they make those toll readers any uglier btw? They look like cell towers.
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Those are congestion pricing toll readers. That's the very thing we're discussing. You'd rather there be congestion pricing infrastructure in NY that is ugly when there clearly is a more aesthetically pleasing way of accomplishing it as demonstrated by the ones in London? Okay...
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^ well as you can guess by referring back to the moniker for it, congestion pricing, collecting loot for mta is not the only reason for doing it.
less cars will make for more opportunities for road diets, bike lanes, pedestrian space like on lower broadway, etc., and make downtown cleaner and safer. or one would hope. we’ll see. Quote:
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Congestion pricing has benefits far beyond raising money for the MTA. It means cleaner air, safer streets, and an end to using Manhattan as a free cut-thru. |
^ yeah and as usual, it would be nice to see the links you mad googled about that.
anyway … a new ibx insta : https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwVfP...RlODBiNWFlZA== |
thankfully they finally resolved this.
imagine, 13yrs without any salary changes. crazy. and even better for all its an unusually long 16yr contract. Staten Island Ferry union inks long-awaited contract with NYC marking first wage increase in 13 years Updated: Sep. 04, 2023 By Joseph Ostapiuk | jostapiuk@siadvance.com STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City and the union representing Staten Island Ferry workers on Monday announced a long-awaited, historic agreement providing the first wage increase for the workforce in 13 years. Standing on the deck of the Dorothy Day Ferry, officials signaled the end of laborious negotiations that resulted in the longest contract the city has ever negotiated — a 16-year deal that extends back from Nov. 7, 2010 to Jan. 4, 2027. It guarantees an average nearly-30% retroactive salary increase for approximately 150 people across multiple titles, from mates to engineers and captains. more: https://www.silive.com/news/2023/09/...-13-years.html |
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Nothing new, just more evidence that the majority of politicians support subway extension/transit reactivation over park plan.
https://www.amny.com/transit/queensl...ks-build-park/ |
^ glad to hear that the transit option is also being currently discussed.
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more efforts to improve the heavy duty hunts point area traffic flow —
Road redesign along Sheridan aims to improve safety and access By Aliya Schneider Posted on September 7, 2023 more: https://www.bxtimes.com/road-redesign-sheridan-access/ |
a slight loosening of the mta fare cap —
also omny card vending machine news — MTA eases rules for ‘fare capping’ on NYC subways, buses By Stephen Nessen Published Sep 7, 2023 The system only counted a “week” as one starting Monday and ending Sunday, making it more difficult for New Yorkers who don’t work a typical nine-to-five to get the discount. That changed on Aug. 20. Now, the fare-capping option is calculated over any seven-day period — starting whenever someone makes their first OMNY tap, and resetting when that week is over. … Transit riders will eventually be able to buy special reloadable OMNY cards at subway vending machines. But the rollout of the equipment has been beset by delays. The MTA previously said they would install the new vending machines this summer, which ends in two weeks. “The OMNY vending machines will start to rollout in pilot phase very soon and the full installation will proceed over 12 months,” MTA spokesperson Eugene Resnick told Gothamist last week. more: https://gothamist.com/news/mta-eases...-subways-buses |
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^ wedgie!
*** fyi - how tokyo keeps the trains clean (they actually clean them) — https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cw8Bc...RlODBiNWFlZA== |
^ 167 was a worksite of mine — those are my fav new mta murals.
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new dorp sir station goes ada ok —
This SIR station becomes first equipped with elevators on Staten Island Published: Sep. 20, 2023 more: https://www.silive.com/news/2023/09/...en-island.html https://www.silive.com/resizer/ExtGk...BLSFHATAFY.JPG MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber announces the opening of the accessible elevators at the New Dorp Train Station in a press conference on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. (Staten Island Advance/Jason Paderon) Jason PaderonJason Paderon |
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MTA tests fully enclosed bus driver "cockpit"
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loca...-safe/4690882/ I don't know how I feel about this. On one hand it's utterly depressing it's come to this and 99.9% percent of riders have to loose a possible personal connection or friendly greeting from a driver because they're locked in a plexi cockpit to protect them from the .01% that is crazy/strung out and violent. On the other hand, this concept of an isolated operator cabin isn't new at all as many UK buses like the famous double deckers have had them for decades - though they were primarily a design feature not a security initiative. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...df8f994a_c.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/mtapho...77720311299764 |
a couple good things — :tup::tup:
Manhattan Borough President Levine pushes plan to raze FDR Drive in Lower Manhattan By Ben Brachfeld & Gabriele Holtermann Posted on September 20, 2023 Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine on Wednesday called for tearing down the elevated FDR Drive in Lower Manhattan and replacing it with a ground-level boulevard. In a video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, Levine called the elevated highway a “massive, noisy, ugly barrier” between Manhattanites and their waterfront, and that the time has come to “tear that barrier down.” more: https://www.amny.com/transit/manhatt...ine-fdr-drive/ *** MTA considering ways to sustainably cool down scorching subway stations By Ben Brachfeld Posted on September 21, 2023 The MTA is looking into ways to cool down its notoriously sweltering underground subway stations as climate change leads to hotter summers, the agency announced on Thursday. The authority put out a “request for information” soliciting proposals from companies and organizations on innovative methods to cool down subway platforms, particularly those that are not carbon intensive like traditional air conditioning and thus, don’t contribute more to the problem in the first place. more: https://www.amny.com/transit/mta-con...bway-stations/ |
^ Regarding station cooling, 100% the answer is geothermal heat pumps. The technology is amazingly simple and could be done cost effectively.
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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.
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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 … 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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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?
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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.
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