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Posted by randyo on Mon Feb 20 16:13:13 2017, in response to Re: 8 cars and the C, posted by Handbrake on Mon Feb 20 12:33:27 2017. When originally installed, there were no separate B1 or B2 channels. The entire B division was on one frequency and certain areas on the radio consoles which monitored sections of both B1 and B2 were shared by console dispatchers on both divisions in the command center. There was a “Jay/Essex" area on the consoles which had to be punched in by the B1 dispatcher to handle J, Ms and Ks between Essex and Chambers and the B2 dispatcher to handle the Bs and Ds between Bway/Laf and Grand and the Fs between Bway/Laf and Jay St. The console area handling the BMT Eastern also handled the A line from S/O Grant to Lefferts and the Rockaways.The console button was labeled “Myrtle/Lefferts/Bedford” and the both the B1 console disp and the B2 console disp had to punch in the same area and filter out which radio transom missions belonged to whom. In the Southern Div, both eh eB1 and B2 dispatchers had to punch in the same area so that the B2 could monitor the F and the B1 disp could monitor the outdoor portions of the B. D, M and N. Even the underground portions of the divisions were not immune to confusion. The #7 Line is on B1 frequency but before B1/B2 separation was introduced, When I was monitoring the Flushing/Astoria console, I would hear 6 Av B2 transmissions bleeding into my console. Unlike the IRT which was planned by people who had a certain amount of transit knowledge, the B Div was planned by a bunch of nattering nabobs of cluelessness who seemed to never have consulted with the operating personnel when assigning areas of supervision. The Jay/Essex area stopped at Fulton St and the portion of the console assigned to 14 St south to 95 St picked up from that point which included Broad St south. That meant that the disp controlling Essex St had to also punch in the Bway/4 Ave area in order to monitor the J line south terminal. There seemed to be a total lack of logic as to how the areas of supervision were laid out on the B Div. |
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