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Re: 1970 Employee ''RR'' Fourth Avenue Line Timetable |
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Posted by randyo on Mon Jan 20 01:05:21 2020, in response to Re: 1970 Employee ''RR'' Fourth Avenue Line Timetable, posted by BusRider on Sun Jan 19 20:10:12 2020. That’s pretty much the way it was, but by the time I got to the schedule office, the car service was no longer an integral part of the timetable but was governed by a notice issued by the head of the Transportation (now RTO) dept which coincided with the start of the pick. Another reason for the change was that in case ridership mandated a change in car service it could be implemented by notice rather than having to issue a supplement timetable just to effect a car service change. Another wrinkle back in those days was that often the actual number of trips on a given line did not always balance between N/B and S/B, the balance being achieved by operating trains of different lengths in both directions so that at the end of 24 hrs the car service was balanced. Problems started to arise when circa 1970 the TA stopped cutting trains at night and middays and at the end of the day one end of a line would be over by a number of cars. I recall when I was a new T/D in 1970 I would often get 207 St on Mon midnight and Sun going into Mon the A Line was over by 20 cars at the south end (Lefferts). The A was still running R-10s at the time, so what we did was to cut 2 10 car trains into 4 5 car trains to operate S/B. When they got to Lefferts they were added back up to 10s and 2 10 car trains were put in service to go back to 207 to balance service. |
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