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Posted by randyo on Sat Jan 7 21:42:34 2017, in response to Re: N to 96/2, posted by Q Brightliner Harry on Sat Jan 7 12:44:47 2017. I would suspect that the S/B 96 St Ns are needed for N service and since they can no longer be turned at 57 St in the AM they are sent to 96 St and return in the PM for N service. Somewhere along the thread, it was mentioned that these trains unlike the Wh Pl Rd 5s are not shown on the map. Well neither are the S/B 2s and 5s that go to Utica and N/Lts in the AM rush and which come out N/B from those destinations in the PM. Those trains are sent there to lay up in N/Lts Yd for PM service because they are not needed to come out of Flatbush in the AM. Other alleged anomalies that were mentioned were #1 Short turns at 137 St and #6 short turn at Parkchester. In both of those cases, the alternate terminals are stops along the line where passengers can change for through trains on the same platform so inconvenience is minimized. If the Ns to 96 St were operated in the PM in the peak direction of traffic, then passengers might have a gripe but since the alternate routing is basically against the main flow of traffic, only the few passengers who might need 5 Av or Lex/60 St or even the fewer who might want Queens destinations would be inconvenienced, and once they became aware of the existence of the oddball trains, they would be on the lookout for them and avoid them if necessary. |
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