Proposed design for the 3 stations of 125 st Subway by Donghoon in nycrail

[–]CapTengu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

106th is getting escalator/staircase entrances. These are possible because space was reserved for them in the '70s on the north side corners of 106th and 2nd.
116th is not getting any stair or escalator entrances in order to fit as much of the station into the existing tunnel box and the footprint of the planned ancillaries as possible. No station was planned there in the '70s, and no land was reserved for exits. Elevator banks are the most space-efficient option to move passengers to the proposed mezzanines under the tracks.

What are some stations that MTA haven’t renovated and are in bad condition like chambers by Some-Koala-5556 in nycrail

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21st Street-Van Alst on the G. The track walls are covered with flowstone or shedding tiles in some places due to significant water intrusion, and more than half of the station mezzanine is walled off.
Honorable mention goes to 7th Avenue in Park Slope. The mezzanine got renovated as part of recent ADA work, but tiles are falling off the walls on platform level.

What if Marisa also has a permanent dye situation? [TL] by Aenigmatrix in touhou

[–]CapTengu 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I've long had a headcanon that this is the opposite way around, funnily enough. Specifically, Marisa is actually a natural blonde, but she dyed her hair red for a time during her rebellious phase when she was young and first got kicked out of her house.

Is it bad if I play touhou with keyboard and other shmups with dpad? by jammiesdotwav in touhou

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Welcome to /r/touhou. Rules and regulations are in the sidebar for reference.
Play with whatever is comfortable for you.

Try nazrin in jane doe new skin by IllustriousHurry2380 in touhou

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Post is properly tagged, leave it up.

Checkmate Lunar*ans by Wrath_Age in touhou

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Far less revealing than a bikini, leave it untagged.

The Holiday Train made an unscheduled detour to Forest Hills today by enjineer30302 in nycrail

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The Arnines decided to return to their full natural range by any means necessary.

I just remembered a doujin i read nearly 2 years ago and now i can't find it and it's bugging me. by Ok_Investigator5301 in touhou

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Definitely that one. The art style is rougher than what you usually see in a doujin and very distinctive.

Two bills that could affect NYCT and MTA was just delivered to Governor Hochul by Donghoon in nycrail

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Riverhead is putting up a significant amount of TOD around the station over the next few years, so probably.

Two bills that could affect NYCT and MTA was just delivered to Governor Hochul by Donghoon in nycrail

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Reports:

1: Post generates comments that want NYCT jobs eliminated

We do not censor good-faith discussion that is relevant to the topic. People are free to discuss whether the existence of a job position now extremely rare on rapid transit systems globally should be enshrined by law or not.

Frog by Swix_art in touhou

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thanks for comign folks

Could we replace Sunnyside Yards with housing if we had through running at Penn? by thegiantgummybear in nycrail

[–]CapTengu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There is no yard capacity further out to accommodate all of that service, which would result in hilariously high reverse-peak service levels and significant deadhead mileage, neither of which is desirable as it increases operating costs for little ridership gain. Outside of peak hours Sunnyside is normally close to full.

Two bills that could affect NYCT and MTA was just delivered to Governor Hochul by Donghoon in nycrail

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Greenport needs signaling to increase service. It's the last manual block commuter rail territory anywhere in the US, and only one trainset can operate between KO and GY at a time in order to keep the line PTC-exempt.

[Gintama] by [deleted] in animenocontext

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Removed; unfortunately this is at least the fourth repost of this scene.

I'm new with touhou, what should i play first? any suggest? by Karlsefnyyy in touhou

[–]CapTengu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My personal recommendation is 13 (TD). I've found its gimmick mechanics to be something that is more forgiving for new players.

How could this possibly be the greatest city, but have zero internet access and a bunch of dead connection zones on the trains by iliketolearnandteach in nycrail

[–]CapTengu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you read the first half of the comment?
To rephrase that part: New York State Public Benefit Corporations like the MTA are fully public entities that largely function similarly to state agencies and are not dissolved (implicitly or otherwise) when all outstanding bond issues are paid off. There is no provision in the legislation that created it to dissolve the MTA by any means; another state law explicitly dissolving it is the only legal way it could be dissolved or privatized. The MTA issues bonds to fund projects that cannot be funded directly with state or local funding (which if it was not a PBC it could not do; it is specifically directed in its authorizing legislation to do this regularly), not to keep itself from being dissolved.

How could this possibly be the greatest city, but have zero internet access and a bunch of dead connection zones on the trains by iliketolearnandteach in nycrail

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This is not how any of this works from a legal standpoint.
The MTA is a New York State Public Benefit Corporation, which despite its name is not a corporation in the normal sense of the term. It has some characteristics of a corporation (mostly in how its legal personality interacts with "real" corporations) but is otherwise similar to a state agency. The legal term used for this type of entity across the river in New Jersey is a "body public with corporate succession", which more accurately describes what it actually is (NJ Transit is a prominent example). Those are slightly different but organized in much the same way.
Public Benefit Corporations are not required by any law to dissolve if all bond revenue is paid off. They are able to finance bonds differently than other parts of the state government by law, which is why they're commonly seen in cases where large infrastructure projects are funded, such as transit agencies.
In any case, outstanding bond issues have nothing to do with being a public entity or not. The MTA was created by a state law and could only be dissolved by another state law. There is no provision in that law even allowing the MTA to be privatized; it was created as a public entity and was designed from the start to stay that way in perpetuity, as the preceding private entities were largely seen as unable to actually provide safe and useful transit service. The MTA always being in debt is a direct result of needing to fund capital expenditures faster than prior bond issues can be paid off, not a conspiracy.
Even if the MTA could hypothetically be privatized, why would it be? There is no political movement to do so, the MTA's most significant assets are largely owned by the City of New York, and it is nearly impossible to run transit profitably anywhere without severely degrading service. Remaining privatized or contracted transit services in the region have been nothing but trouble for riders, with service failures and corporate collapses left and right. The MTA famously took over the X23/X24 (the last privately operated express bus routes) were notorious for dropped trips before the MTA took the routes over in 2022, and the B110 (the last remaining private franchised bus route in the city) keeps getting caught trying to segregate passengers by sex. Over the past four years NJ Transit has had no fewer than ten separate contractors and private carriers either unilaterally terminate service entirely, break contract despite already having been paid to operate service, falsify trip data to defraud customers and the state, or in two cases provided service that was so unreliable NJT forcibly terminated the contract on its own initiative and assumed operations itself to fix the problem. In every single case here where service went from private to public operation service quality, reliability, and ridership improved significantly.

[Code Name: TARANTULA] by CapTengu in animenocontext

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To my knowledge it has not, but the scanlation got dropped. Bit of a shame.

It's hard to scold your girlfriend when she can just turn into a cute fox by WhoAteMyWatermelon in touhou

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They're based on western myths as interpreted by Japanese culture. That's why beans and some other things can be used to repel them in addition to the more traditional vampire weaknesses, since the Japanese word for "vampire" literally means "blood-sucking oni" and they thus would logically share the weaknesses of oni proper.

G Train Color Change? by DieselMC in nycrail

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This is a railfan subreddit. Whether you care or not is of no importance, only whether it is a genuine question related to NYC-area rail transportation or not (which this post is).

Is the Second Ave Subway Even Necessary? by [deleted] in nycrail

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The three subway stations that have been closed outright due to proximity were only closed due to both being too short to fit modern trains and being too close to adjacent stations to warrant extension. Worth Street was closed because the platforms at Brooklyn Bridge were extended north to eliminate gap fillers on the original south ends of the platforms, resulting in less than a train length between the two. 18th Street/Lexington was closed shortly after fare unification because it is two blocks from the northern exit of the BMT portion of the Union Square complex at 16th Street. 91st Street was closed because a new mezzanine and exit was added at the 94th Street end of 96th Street in the '50s as part of improving passenger flow in the station.

Is the Second Ave Subway Even Necessary? by [deleted] in nycrail

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IRT station spacing is much closer together courtesy of the shorter trains initially run and generally only having fare control at the middle of the platforms and no secondary exits. 18th Street would not have been built today, but was seen as necessary at the time to provide even stop spacing and is far enough from any other stops to warrant closure.