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Re: W to Astoria/N and Q to 96th Street? |
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Posted by AlM on Sat Jan 2 09:51:41 2016, in response to Re: W to Astoria/N and Q to 96th Street?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Jan 2 02:14:28 2016. But it's way cheaper to have T/Os hanging out at 137th (using a lag method) so that trains can be turned there without anyone walking the length of the train, as opposed to paying a T/O to go all the way up to 242nd and back to 137th. When a terminating train pulls into 137th, the T/O hanging out there enters the rear cab. Both T/Os can stay locked in their cabs as the train relays.The T/O that now ends up at the back of the new downtown train gets out at 137th after the relay, crosses over and gets into the back of the next uptown terminating train, and then becomes the actual T/O of that train as it goes back downtown. So the money argument doesn't hold water, and neither does the crew endangerment argument. They just don't seem to want to take passengers into a pocket sand maybe make them sit stranded there for 5 minutes. |
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