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Re: Does anyone have any pictures of pre-GOH R32's with RR displayed in front? |
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Posted by randyo on Sat Apr 21 16:08:04 2012, in response to Re: Does anyone have any pictures of pre-GOH R32's with RR displayed in front?, posted by zac on Sat Apr 21 05:21:13 2012. When I was working as a platform C/R at 34/Bway in 1966, I heard a boo ing voice form down the platform yelling "What the hell train is this." I observed a male passenger running from car to car checking the route signs. I explained to him about the new train designations and he responded that it was the stupidest thing he ever heard of and he was right. The reason that the cesspool of incompetence that has passed for NYCTA planning almost since the inception of the agency gave for eliminating the individual route descriptions was that neither the IND nor IRT had them. It never occurred to the dummies that the BMT was unique in that it was the only division that had trains going to a common destination by different Brooklyn routes. In fact the BMT was unique in that most of its Southern Division services used a single Manhattan route, the Bway subway and only the West end Lcls and some rush hour bankers' specials used Nassau St. The only sensible route sign the TA came up with was "TT/West End Lcl." since that service used Nassau St for most of the time with a shuttle service at nights and Sundays. The miserable excuses for TA planners didn't seem to think of providing a route description for either the 4 Av or Brighton bankers' specials which operated into Nassau St. Even if the TA wanted to use IND style letters for the BMT route, intelligent planners would have used only the individual Bkln route names on the route signs and provided a single letter "R" for the 4 Av bankers' specials. The TA's answer to the bankers' specials was to use the "M/ Nassau St Exp" signs which were actually intended for eventual use on the Myrtle/Chambers service. It would have made more sense, which the TA planners obviously didn't have, to forget about the description "Nassau St" for the Eastern Division services and use the traditional designations of "Myrtle Av" for the M, "Bway Bkln" for the KK and "Jamaica" for the J and JJ. |
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