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Posted by Broadway Lion on Sun Oct 11 12:38:07 2009, in response to Re: Adding the C or V to the Culver Line, posted by lrg5784 on Sun Oct 11 10:35:58 2009. This is why I despise NYCT. They treat their crew like shitAnd here is the nub of the problem. And I quite agree with you. The adversarial relationship between labor and management has to go. And it is 100% up to management to make it so. On this issue the LION is very pro-labor. Each employee is a valuable asset to a company and must be protected. If I want a train to run so and such a route, *I* would call may workers together and ASK THEM how they want to do this. Is the run too long can we break it? Perhaps there are different offsets that the company can offer, such as longer breaks and turn arounds on these lines. If I was intent on running "This train This way" then I have to be willing to pay for the labor that it takes to make it so. If I am not, then perhaps I must run a train differently. But the LION is neither a worker nor a manager, he is simply looking at the physical plant like any railfan would, and suggesting what looks doable to him. The LION is looking at the interlocking plants to the extent that he is aware of them and suggesting how they may be used. You can terminate the (E), the (C) or the (V) at Chambers WTC, but apparently only one of them. The others must go elsewhere. Where else is there on the Fulton Line that can turn a service? You show me how to do it, and I will look at it (for all the good that will do anybody). The LION's major premise was to send the (V) to Chambers WTC to give 6th Avenue access to the financial district. If I do this the (E) must obviously go elsewhere. It is on 8th Avenue, thus I can run it on the express track through the Cranberry and onto Fulton, or I can send it on the Local, through Rutgers to Church, or I can terminate it at Second Avenue, but if so, then I may not be able to run another service through the Rutgers. Maybe I can send the (V) to Chambers; the (E) to Second; and leave the (C) alone, but this keeps the bottleneck at Canal which I was hoping to eliminate. Oh well, you cannot do all things. Still, I would extend the (E) out Fulton to reduce congestion at Canal, and take the penalty of adding more crews to allow for longer breaks at each end. ROAR |
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