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Posted by RonInBayside on Sat Jan 19 10:44:30 2008, in response to Re: G Train to be cut back to Court Square permanently, posted by trains61 on Sat Jan 19 08:57:51 2008. "Even in this thread people readily admit that pax jump off of the locals to the express. How would you know anyway? What is your proof?"Several years riding Queens Blvd., including using various trains to get to Manhattan for a date Friday or Saturday night. Not only was the train full, but the Q46 bus that brought me to Kew Gardens was full too. I used that experience to persuade MTA to implement certain details of the 63rd St service plan. You are correct about the preference for the express; however, what you forget is that at local stops, the passengers have to get on the local first. "I used the line on a regular basis, in both directions during the evening." If you did ride, you were counting subway car serial numbers and worrying about which window looked different on an R46 vs. an R32, and which rollsign was wrong. I'd be surprised if you could recall anyone riding in the car with you. "...point was about the principles of dispatching and scheduling" Which the TA does very well and you don't do at all. On the other hand, you probably take very good pictures of the trains, and there are websites like nycsubway.org where you can be productive. If you want to know about dispatch and scheduling then go to school and educate yourself. That's not something you can learn by railfanning. "The abundance of office professionals in the MTA as opposed to hourlies is part of the problem." Actually, that's just more foaming. As one example, the director of public affairs lost most of his office staff to budget cuts in the last few years. Because MTA has to produce reams of paper, demanded by state and federal governments to justify the funding it gets, it has to use somebody to generate that. So it can keep people in house, or hire consultants at triple the price. Sometimes it does both. There is some waste there and there are people in the building who who their jobs to a politician or a favored agency head, but you don't know who they are or why, so it's pointless for you to whine about it. |
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