N6 Limited

4 hours ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

Yep. You're getting older and becoming tired of the day-to-day BS that the subway entails. Welcome to my world.  After a long day in the office, I just want to get home without the panhandlers, crowds and everything else.

Yeah, I still use the subway in Manhattan  but the delays during trackwork hours are just so frustrating , I'd rather keep my sanity and just use the railroad.

2 hours ago, bobtehpanda said:

For all of its faults, the LIRR never really had an extended period of deferred maintenance, so the LIRR doesn't have massive service changes the way that the subway does.

That being said, the LIRR is still a pretty terrible railroad, and it generally isn't available between 1-5.

I've experienced short delays on the LIRR of a couple mins or so, but not to the extent that I've experienced on the subway. The thing is once you've used it a few times you know your train times. The service gap between 1 and 5 depends on the line.

Wow im late, I would have applied for the test if I knew about it

Ever since I started using the LIRR to avoid the QBL ride of horrors after 10PM and weekends, I've been getting accustomed to using it to the point that i't's starting to become the default choice. 

I went to Atlantic Antic today and got a cool R160 tattoo. 

On 9/16/2017 at 9:20 PM, NY1635 said:

 

I believe the lack of passengers north of NCC was what caused NICE to reduce the n35 to hourly during weekday off midday. Ridership north of the college has been going down ever since the Source Mall died a slow and painful death. Before there were HTC-NCC shuttles to pick up the slack, but now it's not doing much. It's even more bizarre that the n35 got reduced to hourly north of Hempstead when it usually gets more people heading to Roosevelt Field and NCC than either the n15 or n16. I think what makes NICE terrible is how they focus too much on improving connections between lines without improving the schedule.

Midday the N15 follows the N35 route so maybe they find that to be redundant service.

On 9/21/2017 at 5:26 PM, itmaybeokay said:

I'm not trying to rip you to shreds - trust me - I live in astoria - the go's are annoying because it means if i'm late to work, I'm EXTRA late to work. 

 

I just don't have any patience for the outlook that service changes are somehow inconvenient by design, that GO's are instituted in convey maximum spite. Frankly - this is a narcissistic position to take, it lies adjacent to the point of view where any hurdle on one's path is an intentional attack. I know too many people like that and if you think about it, you probably do as well.

 

None of us, individually or collectively are so important that powers at the transit agency want to give us the shaft. Nobody is sitting in the rail control center pleasuring themselves to the thought of those crowded trains in astoria. It isn't about me, it isn't about you, it's about trying to run a railroad.

Sometimes I wonder about that, when I'm subject to QBL trackwork after 10pm weekdays it feels like if any passenger dared to have a good day then NYCT wants to make sure it's completely destroyed before they get off the train.

If the bypass is built they can do fast track on the QBL and get it in tip top shape

I've known that the n6x does not serve campus for the last few weeks. I was discussing how if they were to use artics to service NCC, NICE would likely have to interline the n16x trips with n6x trips that do utilize them so as to not spend more than absolutely needed...

 

Which means nothing for mid-day service (and more unreliable service during the rush on top of the current issues).

I was just noting what I noticed about the new schedule. As for the N16 couldn't they loop an Artic between campus and Hempsted?

When do the R179s go into service?

I haven't seen an artic in a while. I just checked the new schedule and it's interesting. (maybe, I'm late on this):

-The closest to midday that they run Artics on weekdays is about 3pm, but on Saturday they kinda run on a hourly basis all day.

- Artics only run on the N6X on weekdays

-The "N6x" trips to NCC have been eliminated

http://www.nicebus.com/NiceBus/media/NiceBus-Schedules/NiceBus-SchedulesApp/NICE-n6_MapSchedule.pdf

"Redundant service."

I wonder if they figured that during Miday hours riders could take the N43 to the mall and transfer to the N15 if necessary.  

It's now SRO between Hempstead and NCC due to the lack of alternatives. The n43 extension to Hempstead was used mainly by NCC Students. It came at the expense of the n43 being jam packed with both regular riders and the students between Roosevelt Field and the College.

Wait, if it was jam packed then why did they get rid of it?

NICE really needs to do something about the loads coming to/from NCC during the class change times. The fact that every day, there are people having to wait an extra 30 minutes for an n16 or n35 to Hempstead because they couldn't fit on the bus is disgusting.

Is it full full, or is there room in the back? They had the N43 extension to Hempstead a couple of years ago but for some reason people didn't want to use it

Subway time (web) seems to be slow/down today

It's great. I use it a lot when I buy singles, which I started doing last year when I didn't buy monthly passes and switched back to taking the express bus. It's really helpful. I just buy tickets when I'm in the office or at home and it saves me from waiting in line or worst of all being hit up for money in Grand Central, not to mention the skimmers. I however still buy my monthly tickets from the machine, though I'm even considering doing that on the app too. The only thing for me is they don't sell the monthly passes on the app yet with the Hudson Raillink included so that's another reason why I still get monthly passes from the machine, but I rarely do that option unless my express bus usage is going to be really minimal (i.e. on weekends only).

 

One other thing that the MNRR version does is it allows you to split payments between two credit cards. I've considered trying that out for the hell of it, but haven't yet. Nice to have as an option though especially if your ticket is really expensive.

Yeah, the splitting tickets option sounds reasonable for people further north with the expensive tickets. Are the eTix and easy pay accounts linked?

Certainly helpful in those last minute situations! i.e. if your coming from the D N R train to the LIRR at Atlantic.

 

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I've used it. It's pretty straightforward works well.

 

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Does anyone use MTA eTix? How is it?

The BMT planned for the Broadway line to continue north through Central Park, where was it supposed to go? Adam Clayton Powell Blvd(7th Ave)? Would there be no stops between 57th Street and 110th Street?

I just got off a SRO N6 @ 1:30am because of crap service.

90 mins to Jamaica!

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62 mins to go from West 4th street to 71st Ave, what the !! I'm not pleased

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Subway Time is down this morning?

Too late to edit the post. I'm speaking more specifically about the App and webpage (apps.mta.info/traintime3). The clocks in stations appear to be working but the app and site appear to be perpetually loading.

Subway Time is down this morning?

One of the bus stops near me:

 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1IlJL3_8EKh4cd499bYqv9LbIIAVmr4Euaw

 

Kind of makes me sad to see it so empty

 

 

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N22A and N23 removed?