kosciusko Posted January 23, 2019 Share #1 Posted January 23, 2019 From amNY: Vincent Barone The MTA on Tuesday touted four straight months of improved subway service, with on-time levels reaching their highest point in years. While still struggling with reliability and continuing ridership declines, the MTA’s head of subways, Sally Librera, credited the nascent improvement in part to a new “SPEED team,” assembled last summer to focus on quickening trains by addressing unnecessary speed-limit restrictions and faulty signal timers that were artificially slowing service. “As we’ve consistently said, we know we have more to do, but we are making significant progress and these statistics reflect that progress,” Librera said Tuesday at an MTA board committee meeting. Those stats include hitting an MTA goal of reducing delays each month by 10,000; there were 45,418 weekday delays in December, compared with 61,441 during the same month in 2017. Weekday on-time performance across the subway system, which measures the share of trains that reach their terminal within five minutes of their schedule, increased to 72.6 percent last month — the best figure for weekdays in more than four years. Since focusing on train speeds, the MTA has identified 68 locations across the system where speed limits could be as much as doubled, or eliminated completely. The authority has also found 320 inaccurate signal timers — totaling about 16 percent of all its subway signal timers — that have been unreliably enforcing those speeds. The faulty equipment has created a culture of distrust among train operators that has led to slower service, workers and the MTA have said. So far, the MTA has recalibrated 59 of those signal timers and implemented 24 of the identified speed-limit changes. Librera and MTA officials have also credited the Subway Action Plan as another factor in stabilizing service. The plan focuses on maintenance of tracks, signals and train cars and was the subject of an intense funding battle between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio. Lisa Daglian, the executive director of the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA, believes the trends are stemming from a confluence of management- and service-related initiatives under NYC Transit President Andy Byford, who has headed the agency for a year. But she noted that there was still a long way to go for service to reach a high quality. “We’re finally beginning to see real tangible results of what [Byford’s] been talking about in terms of looking at root causes of delays — signals, track speeds and, in some cases, things that can be affected by human behavior, which are still a large part of where the delays are,” said Daglian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CenSin Posted January 23, 2019 Share #2 Posted January 23, 2019 They’re going slowly enough that it hasn’t been noticeable to me. The in the vicinity of 36 Street and Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center is still a sore point. They trains shouldn’t be slowing down at 25 Street and Union Street respectively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted January 23, 2019 Share #3 Posted January 23, 2019 I watched the MTA Board meeting. It was cute, especially the bus segment. They used nice percentages to talk about gains in bus speeds, but failed to specify a quantitative number for said gains. It's easy to give a percentage, but a percentage of what? Are we saying a 10% gain in terms of increased speeds based on 6mph? 8mph? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bay Ridge Express Posted January 23, 2019 Share #4 Posted January 23, 2019 28 minutes ago, CenSin said: They’re going slowly enough that it hasn’t been noticeable to me. The in the vicinity of 36 Street and Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center is still a sore point. They trains shouldn’t be slowing down at 25 Street and Union Street respectively. For some reason, I feel this on the but not on the , which is why I started taking the more. Not to mention it actually connects to trains unlike the , which can be a pain sharing tracks with the and having the go first, thereby missing the and then having to wait 10 minutes for another one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Around the Horn Posted January 23, 2019 Share #5 Posted January 23, 2019 Yeah I haven't noticed any difference in the or train speeds. I think operators either don't know about the speed increase or don't trust it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B35 via Church Posted January 23, 2019 Share #6 Posted January 23, 2019 43 minutes ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said: I watched the MTA Board meeting. It was cute, especially the bus segment. They used nice percentages to talk about gains in bus speeds, but failed to specify a quantitative number for said gains. It's easy to give a percentage, but a percentage of what? Are we saying a 10% gain in terms of increased speeds based on 6mph? 8mph? Of course they're not going to give a quantitative number in that instance, because that number is embarrassingly LOW.... It's why I never put stock in percentage gains/losses by itself, regardless of what's being analyzed.... I trust no one that touts percentages without context... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted January 23, 2019 Share #7 Posted January 23, 2019 2 hours ago, B35 via Church said: Of course they're not going to give a quantitative number in that instance, because that number is embarrassingly LOW.... It's why I never put stock in percentage gains/losses by itself, regardless of what's being analyzed.... I trust no one that touts percentages without context... That was my point, hence why I said it was "cute". lol The guy doing the presentation basically had a let's run through this attitude. Just rushed through everything. Half @ssed as usual... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Italianstallion Posted January 23, 2019 Share #8 Posted January 23, 2019 3 hours ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said: I watched the MTA Board meeting. It was cute, especially the bus segment. They used nice percentages to talk about gains in bus speeds, but failed to specify a quantitative number for said gains. It's easy to give a percentage, but a percentage of what? Are we saying a 10% gain in terms of increased speeds based on 6mph? 8mph? This post is about train speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted January 23, 2019 Share #9 Posted January 23, 2019 7 minutes ago, Italianstallion said: This post is about train speeds. Yeah, and? Tell me something I don't know. As I said, I watched the entire meeting. The subway segment was just regurgitated crap about train speeds that had been discussed previously by them. I haven't noticed a difference. Trains are still held and I'm delayed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Italianstallion Posted January 23, 2019 Share #10 Posted January 23, 2019 3 minutes ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said: Yeah, and? Tell me something I don't know. As I said, I watched the entire meeting. The subway segment was just regurgitated crap about train speeds that had been discussed previously by them. I haven't noticed a difference. Trains are still held and I'm delayed. You were going on about bus speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted January 23, 2019 Share #11 Posted January 23, 2019 9 minutes ago, Italianstallion said: You were going on about bus speeds. So shoot me... I know what I posted. As I said, nothing in that meeting about either was earth shattering. You wanted to hear about train speeds... I said my piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CenSin Posted January 24, 2019 Share #12 Posted January 24, 2019 You know… As usual, you should understand that there is the MTA definitions and the commuter definitions of what’s good service. Take the numbers with a grain of salt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itmaybeokay Posted January 24, 2019 Share #13 Posted January 24, 2019 http://dashboard.mta.info/ Literally no metric on that dashboard shows 4 months of improved service - so uh, you know, wait what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysteriousBtrain Posted January 24, 2019 Share #14 Posted January 24, 2019 9 hours ago, itmaybeokay said: http://dashboard.mta.info/ Literally no metric on that dashboard shows 4 months of improved service - so uh, you know, wait what? Compared to January? That's probably their "improved service". Going from over 100k delays a month to just under 70k is a huge deal. And with the exception of one month being near 70k (November) after the summer, that's celebration to MTA eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoHacksJustKhaks Posted January 24, 2019 Share #15 Posted January 24, 2019 I’ll say the ’s improving when they can commit to their goals long term, once the buzz and hype wears off. It’s still way too early to toss statistics at others faces, they’re fatuous no matter how nice they look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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