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To add an answer, it is politics and accounting. Inter-agency and Inter-State issues are very sensitive and hard to resolve. The politics is anyone's guess. Each agency (and state) has their own accounting rules and requirements and trying to reconcile can give anyone a headache. Each State has to d...

Thanks for the link. I wonder how much use/purchases they will get at either FordhamRd station. When I was at the Concourse line station, people just walked by the OMNY machines (and didn't even give them a second glance) to the MVMs at the opposite side of the unpaid area. I would have chosen stati...

I was headed downtown this morning and decided to take the D at the Fordham Rd/Concourse station. I, of course, knew the OVMs were there but was surprised that the machines were actually live and online. To check it out I decided to add 2 fares ($5.80) to my OMNY card (which I keep as back-up in cas...

No, there is no physical connection between yards. The IRT Jerome Yard can only be reached from the Jerome Av elevated structure. The IND Concourse Yard is accessible from the Jerome Av line by a ramp located between the elevated Kingsbridge Rd and Bedford Park Blvd stations. And of course accessibl...

As of Oct. 10, 2023 the JFK AirTrain will accept contactless cards and OMNY. https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/ahead-busy-travel-season-governor-hochul-announces-airtrain-jfk-will-accept-payments-omny "New Fare Payment System Will Accept Contactless Debit/Credit Cards, Digital Wallets and OMNY C...

Just an update, two OMNY machines (N000008 and N000020) have been installed in the Fordham Rd station of the Concourse line (B/D) last Sunday, 9/24/2023. I saw them being worked on.

I'd rather bet on how long it takes before someone actually buys an OMNY card from the machine (that $5.00 fee will turn some people off). I would also wonder how long it will be before someone who already has an OMNY card uses the machine to refill the card. I'd predict right now that OMNY cards wi...

I stopped by that station. The machine is in place on the east side of the mezzanine. It is plugged in as the screen is on but the screen and other spots are covered with signs saying the machine is not in service, so I guess some testing is due before customers will be able to use it. I also checke...

As to why these 2 re-reroutes popped into my head today after all this time I have no idea. These strange reroutes took place way back in the late 1970s. I was on a downtown D train (heading to work I think) and for some reason 6th Av trains could no go over the Manhattan Bridge into Brooklyn. The t...

Mod Note : and back to ticketing and fares with OMNY. Speaking of which, we are now mid-August and with about a month and a half to go (to what the end of September time the MTA gave on the OMNY site) there has yet to be even one OVM (OMNY Vending Machine) installed in a subway station. I wonder wh...

I wonder what is happening with PATHs planned extension to the airport rail station.

"Back in the day" was there ever an express service on summer weekends nonstop from 59th St. to CI? I did not recall reading of any service from the books I have, but in checking Wikipedia for Sea Beach subway there is indication that there certainly was a summer express service between C...

True, except that the platforms on the Eastern Division stations are only 480 feet long. That is why the consists on the J, L, M and Z trains have only 8 cars (2 sets of 4 cars). Note: the only exceptions are the platforms at Sutphin Blvd-Archer Av and Parsons-Archer stations on the J/Z line as thos...

Why is that other track abandoned? it could be useful again for this line Useful? But for what purpose? Apparently, over the years, express service was determined as not needed along the Sea Beach line. Unlike the Culver, Brighton and West End lines, the BMT did not put any express stations on the ...

I want to update my posting from back in February 2023 and can now say I have seen the R211T. It was yesterday (8/22/2023). The 10 car train (cars 4040-4041-4042-4043-4044 4049-4048-4047-4046-4045) were on the 'express' track on the Sea Beach line (N train) at the Ft. Hamilton Parkway station. I am ...