I don't know how, but seemingly there's a perennial issue that I see on E, F, G and R trains where there's some kind of issue with the doors. It's bad, and I see some door issue multiple times a week on in-service trains.

Doors with a leaf that doesn't open, doors with a malfunctioning indicator light above the door that goes off randomly, doors where one leaf opens later than the other leaf in the pair, doors where the latch audibly cycles multiple times before the leaf opens.

The R-68s and R-46s out of CI and Concourse seemingly do better with door function than the 160s from Jamaica despite being significantly older.

From the outside, it seems like Jamaica's maintenance program is the only common factor here, and that the Jamaica maintenance procedure needs some kind of stand-down.

If there's some kind of inside baseball I'm missing here, I would love to hear it. Or if you're just wanting to commiserate, that's fine too.

What is the REAL reason it runs every 10 minutes at rush hour?

Haven’t seen my usual morning F express in about a week. Did they quietly do away with the whopping TWO morning F express trains?

do yall agree that they could have done better with building this sharp ass curve?

i’m gonna be in the city soon and i want to go to some interesting stops (or your favorite line). i live in CT so i don’t always have time to just go to different subway stops while im in new york but i’m open to going anywhere.

i was messing around creating a route to take all the subways in one day. i made a pretty good one and decided to use the mta schedules to see how long it would take and it came out at 4:03 minutes?? adding in up to a few hours that’s still only 6 hours, which seems really short from how long i’ve heard it taking in the past. where did i go wrong? what problems should i expect with this route? spreadsheet w/ stations and times

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1. Sutphin Blvd-Archer Av-JFK

Reason: JFK is 5 miles away from the station 2)Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer Reason: Archer Av is already signified in the station before that Thats all lemme know if you know any others in the comments

so I have a transit benefit debit card from my employer that i’ve had set up in apple pay on both my phone and watch since july. starting about a week and a half ago, i’d get the “card not accepted” message on the omny reader whenever i’ve tried to tap my watch to pay. this has happened on both buses and at turnstiles for the subway. i saw some people on here recommend deleting the card from apple pay and then re-entering it, but i tried this and it only works once, maybe twice afterwards, and then goes right back to saying “card not accepted” when i try to use it again. i also can’t seem add the card to my account on omny’s website, possibly because of restrictions from the card’s distributor and only being able to use it with specific merchants. anyone else ever experience this?

So I know that A Division trains have three sets of doors per side per car, while B Division trains have four sets of doors per side per car. Why is that? Is it an homage to how the previous companies configured their cars (i.e., did the IRT run its trains with six sets of doors per car and did the BMT and IND run theirs with eight sets of doors per car?)?

are they really retiring the R44/46 trains next year??

I boarded the E line and was on my way to the airtrain. I had 5 luggage pieces. Got into a nice sit and took 20mg of Melatonin.

Just as we arrived to the air train I jumped and left the subway. This is when I noticed I had left my entire luggage in the train.

What can I do?

lover of trains w no technical knowledge whatsoever so pardon the q if i’m using wrong vocab - but which lines / stretches of lines (at which times?) are hardest for train crew to manage?

I would pay good money to have someone walk through the cars correcting bad behavior.

“Take that backpack off”, “move away from the doors” “put your headphones in”

Anyone?!?

📸 credits to fantherailsbc

a very lucky takeoff, with the train in the shot. it's a lovely place to visit by train, bike or plane.

So Thanksgiving, came back to NYC from Exchange Place at midnight. Went to the E train at World Trade.

First seven cars were filled with the homeless. One other family and my wife and I found one bench free. A homeless guy came from another car and deliberately sat across from us. Crushed a soda can, tossed it and stared at us all. We got off at Canal and waited for an A.

Now as to the platform. Three MTA employees just standing around and two cops on their phones.

I mean you could make the first cars only for paying customers and put a cop in that car. That one homeless guy wanted to do something so I put my hand in my coat pocket and made it look like I had something to deter him. He grimaced and sat back down but glared at the 6 of us sitting across from him. FELT incredibly safe do nothing City employees.

Looking for fastest, least annoying, etc. or are they equal?

So my dad has a theory that the direction from which a train comes in relation to the platform is regular. He says in the case of a single-train platform (eg. 66th st 1 train) the train is always coming from your left, whereas with double platforms where the trains are going in opposite directions (eg. the 4/5 at Atlantic or the 2/3 at Penn Station) the trains will always come from your right (this is assuming that you’re facing towards whichever train is coming). This obviously doesn’t mean anything for double platforms where the trains are going in the same direction (like the 72 st 1/2/3). But is he right? I can’t think of any counterexamples.

From time to time I’ve seen non-passenger trains and I’m just so curious what they all do. Most of the ones I see are only like 4~ sections long but sometimes I’ve seen longer ones. Usually they have some bin looking things on them idk how to even describe them. I did see a vaktrak the other day so I know what that is now but what else is there??