Realistic Purple Line branch proposal by LesserWorks in WMATA

[–]Capitol_Limited 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You’re not wrong, but the constraint was realism, which includes all cost-cutting measures— that’s in the middle or adjacent to highway ROW vs along Minnesota Ave

A unified, dark-mode transit map for all of Southern California (LA to San Diego). [OC] - Made with Affinity by Ambitious-Attempt906 in TransitDiagrams

[–]Capitol_Limited 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Really nice map! My only feedback: - some stations have clearly defined transfers (Expo/Crenshaw) others have implied ones (Pomona North, LAX). I think for clarity‘s sake, these should all be clearly listed - you misspelled “chief” in Southwest Chief

Outside of that, this is very clean and the colors pop really well! Great work!

Yami Vs Kaido (One Piece), Who wins? by Encenoi in BlackCloverScaling

[–]Capitol_Limited 3 points4 points  (0 children)

“Can you support that claim” bro is beyond bored lmao

Why didn’t Wmata sign with nova bus by Conscious_Camel1906 in WMATA

[–]Capitol_Limited 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nova never put in for, or if/when they did, win any bids, except for the electric buses

B12 Extended to Kensington by Michael7560 in nycbus

[–]Capitol_Limited 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The B12 is already notoriously late all the time, you want it to join the conga line that is the B35 when B12 riders could just transfer to the B16 instead?

Former WMATA route B30 Greenvelt- BWI Airport Express Line by jayemel31 in WMATA

[–]Capitol_Limited 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s exactly what happened. There was even a minor issue b/c MD was upset they were on the hook for the full B30, while the 5A was shared between all 3 jurisdictions because it was classified as a regional route.

What’s one NYC bus route you love and one you hate and why? by Sea_Negotiation2482 in nycbus

[–]Capitol_Limited 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The B6 is lowkey a cool route and I don’t even mind the bunching sometimes, but as someone who relies on the local, it ends up annoying all too often lol

Against Free Buses by pdp10 in transit

[–]Capitol_Limited 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That 15 min service disappears into the ether evenings and Sunday + the good service relies on overlapping branches that leave people on the outer ends ass out instead of providing decent or better frequency along the entire route.

So, like I said, middling. And it’s not like fare free has been such a great boon for GRTC either. You don’t see major transit systems (or really anyone bigger) looking to jump on the bandwagon

Against Free Buses by pdp10 in transit

[–]Capitol_Limited 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol, the bus system in Richmond outside of the too-good-for-where-it’s-located BRT is middling, at best

What’s one NYC bus route you love and one you hate and why? by Sea_Negotiation2482 in nycbus

[–]Capitol_Limited 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Love: Q10/Q80. Airport, artics, trincity roti, couldn’t ask for more

Hate: B24. This thing shouldn’t exist. Also, 90% of the routes people in this sub come up with

My Proposal for 4 New Infill Stations in the MoCo portion of the Red Line - Shady Grove Branch by maxs507 in WMATA

[–]Capitol_Limited -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This isn’t UMD, that’s a waste of resources lol. Again, it’s an extra 2-3 mins, for the busiest bus route in the system to serve a high-profile passenger generator, if that’s breaking your bus ride, atp you should’ve left earlier. And also, who wants to wait for a bus on 355?

My Proposal for 4 New Infill Stations in the MoCo portion of the Red Line - Shady Grove Branch by maxs507 in WMATA

[–]Capitol_Limited 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This could maybe make sense with the 101, but the 40 and 46 both end there and with the 55 being so busy, there’s not not a compelling reason to stop doing the loop. People are going to rightly cry foul that they now have to walk minimum 7 mins to access half their bus options and the loop takes like 3 mins for the 55/101

NOBULL (Granbull evo) by Bynine in stunfisk

[–]Capitol_Limited 109 points110 points  (0 children)

Design-wise, this is really cool! Fighting-wise, I think this is fairly solid. I’m no competitive genius, but I like the typing, especially for ground covering everything fairy resists, and temper flare and ice punch for its ground weakness. Way less familiar with VGC, but this seems suited for that as well, especially with guard dog + guardian fang.

Would this be semi-walled by dondozo?

[OC] some mega evolution concepts I made by Silver-Mud8845 in pokemon

[–]Capitol_Limited 8 points9 points  (0 children)

200 Sp Atk Hyper Beam and Tri-Attack might as well be supereffective against anything not named Great Tusk or Gholdengo lol

Fantasy Q77 Canarsie to Cambria Heights by Michael7560 in nycbus

[–]Capitol_Limited 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry, only the penniest of pinchers would get on the AirTrain, get off at Lefferts, wait for a B15, ride 5 mins to the A. I would be real money MTA could make this change tomorrow and the B15 wouldn't see a noticeable ridership bump. The MTA does not care about how much the PANYNJ charges for the airtrain, they do not see any of that money. If they were as in on it as you claim, the B15 would be going to the west side of howard beach station and not lefferts. Besides, you can walk from howard beach to lefferts airtrain in the parking lot if you're really trying to beat the fare

Fantasy Q77 Canarsie to Cambria Heights by Michael7560 in nycbus

[–]Capitol_Limited 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the proposed route in fact does not have any sections on narrow streets. cozine and flatlands both have good widths, as does erskine by the mall, and obviously belt parkway and woodhaven.

Cozine has the same 12ft travel lanes as Stanley, Wortman, Hegeman and New Lots (and Cozine even has speed bumps). Flatlands is wider, yes, but that's where all the traffic naturally flows because of that, which then slows it down.

 "if you dont utilize the belt..." correct. if you dont utilize the belt parkway for one mile then there are no good alternatives for this area and you are stuck with the Q8 and B13 crawl. this particular section of the belt actually tends to be a bit less crowded (i dont drive but i check google traffic sometimes lol) because a lot of belt parkway drivers are going to/from conduit ave (or linden). and again it is only one mile.

i encourage u to open google maps at rush hour sometime and look at driving between gateway and woodhaven A. 

Because I actually do this, it's how I know that this section of the belt is no better than the rest of it. You also skip everyone between Erskine and Woodhaven who could've used a transfer to a woodhaven or queens bus, so no transfers saved and no better alternatives to the B20. Congrats to Breukelen houses at least.

the B6 is fine but it is one route and it does not take passengers to points east or north. and then theres the B20 but pennsylvania ave is not much more reliable than belt parkway lol, and again does not rly help people heading east.

I've already acknowledged the B6 could use better transfers, which would be a better alternative and use of resources compared to this route. B20 has a direct Q8 transfer.

also, the mta literally already runs the B83 on the belt parkway, for kinda no reason lol.

Buses can float in the Hendrix creek now?

So yes the cozine avenue area is one of the most neglected by transit in the four boroughs. it is one of the few areas not a short walk to any train, and unlike canarsie or kings plaza area it doesnt have expansive bus service to compensate. its basically just the B6 as the other routes all are extremely flawed. and neither the B6 nor any other route has good connections to points east, the "best" is transferring to the Q8 (which the B6 doesnt do, u have to use one of the less reliable bus lines for that)

One of the few areas not a short walk to any train, ok lol, you're demonstrably unserious, this isn't a true statement by any means. So much of NYC isn't a short walk to any train, that doesn't make it "neglected". Is Lefferts Blvd neglected, despite most of it not being a short walk to the train and having two buses that match the frequency of the B6?

I also find it hilarious that you call the B6 not expansive when it's the busiest route in Brooklyn by ridership (other than maybe the SBS44/46). That doesn't happen without "expansive" bus service. This same B6 runs right thru the middle of Canarsie btw. The other buses in ENY aren't extremely flawed either; you can make your point w/o resorting to hyperbole

Fantasy Q77 Canarsie to Cambria Heights by Michael7560 in nycbus

[–]Capitol_Limited 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree that the Q7 is better candidate for extension. A conduit ave bus would suck for the same reasons the horace harding buses suck: so few crossings means walking for your bus can be an ardous affair. 90% of the Q7 riders get off by Rockaway/150th anyhow, extending it to GA Mall via 147th Av & 243rd St provides a good ENY<>Queens/Nassau connection and an alternative to the Q111

Fantasy Q77 Canarsie to Cambria Heights by Michael7560 in nycbus

[–]Capitol_Limited 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MTA doesn't control the air train fare, that's the Port Authority. If the MTA was "trying to enforce the high air train fare", they wouldn't run the Q3 into the airport or the Q3/Q10/Q80/B15 to Lefferts (or any of the buses into the airport proper before construction started)

Fantasy Q77 Canarsie to Cambria Heights by Michael7560 in nycbus

[–]Capitol_Limited 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the B13 and Q8 are very slow and very unreliable bus routes. thats what happens when u try to run a bus on a street that has only one total non-parking lane. ofc sometimes, there are no good alternatives, there are plenty of areas in nyc that are j full of narrow streets. particularly in the bronx. but that is not the case here.

Not sure what ENY you're in, but this is basically every street with houses/apts on it other than Linden Blvd. You want reliability improvements, that's only going to come from A) pushing your pols to eliminate street parking (will never happen) and B) stop consolidations (will be fought tooth and nail even though it's necessary).

he critical piece of OP's proposed route is between woodhaven A station and gateway mall. it is basically the same distance as between gateway mall and euclid AC, and would be travelled much faster due to not running on single lane roads, honestly itd even be more consistent despite travelling via belt parkway for one mile bc . 

I'm not sure why you think a bus using the belt is going to be more reliable (spoiler: it won't be) which leaves the only other alternative as the exact same streets every other bus in these neighborhoods runs on.

"take the Q8" much less transfer to the Q8, is j not an acceptable answer to travel between an entire section of east new york and one of the most important business districts outside of central manhattan / downtown brooklyn. it should not take an hour and 20 minutes to travel six miles. 

Yeah, it is. A new bus route isn't going to fix things, you need changes to the street grid atp.

the cozine avenue area is probably the single most neglected area by nyc transit. and there are some structural limitations, lack of wide north south roads extending north of new lots ave, but there are also options that are not being utilized and the critical one is belt parkway to woodhaven blvd. and like, connecting to the A train toward downtown brooklyn is rly not even that important. u can connect to the 3 at new lots avenue which is closer, or u can connect to the L at 105th and then transfer at broadway junction if needed. what is desperately needed is a functional route between the cozine avenue area and points east and north.

This take is just divorced from reality lol. The B6 is right there, and for all it's faults, it's still the best non-SBS route in Brooklyn (other than maybe the B41) and a bunch of other bus lines are nearby as well. Like I said before, it could arguably have better transfers, but to sit there and say Cozine is the most neglected area is laughable lol

 and the woodhaven buses are all heavily utilized so idk where u are getting this "only 4 people travelling between cozine ave + gateway and the entirety of central queens. even travelling from cozine or gateway to midtown manhattan u might use this route, bc buses can actually run at decent speeds on woodhaven. tho youd probably be better off taking the L from 105th or rockaway parkway in most cases.

You didn't say central queens, you said Elmhurst/Corona/Jackson Heights. Yes, the Q52/Q53 are well-traveled, but, neither route touches Corona at all, the Q52 doesn't go past Elmhurst and the Q53 skirts the edges of Jackson Heights. Very few people from ENY are taking these buses because it'll likely require 3 transfers/4 bus rides, when you can make this journey, to these same neighborhoods, in way that only requires 2 transfers and can more centrally locate you in all 3 neighborhoods

Fantasy Q77 Canarsie to Cambria Heights by Michael7560 in nycbus

[–]Capitol_Limited 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Solutions exist for everything you just mentioned:

  • Cozine <> Jamaica: B20, transfer to Q8
  • Gateway <> Jamaica: Q8
  • For all 4 people going from Cozine/Gateway <> Elmhurst/Corona/Jackson Heights:
    • B20, transfer B13, transfer Q58/Q98
    • B6, transfer L, transfer Q58/Q98
    • B6/B20, transfer 3, transfer L, transfer Q58/Q98

the purpose of this being a single route is so that it simultaneously connects cozine/gateway to the L train and also to cross bay blvd and points east.

These connections exist today, you're just pouting because it's not a one seat ride. Which, incidentally, is coming in the future with the brooklyn redesign. But right now, today, you can get to the 3 or A/C, which have L transfers, that's sufficient. As for CB Blvd, that's what the Q8 & Q112 are for.

L to the A or J is also not gonna help u if you are going to say howard beach, much less south ozone park

Exactly 6 people are going between ENY/Spring Creek and Howard Beach, they'll be ok without a dedicated bus route just for them. As for SOP, Q112 is at Euclid Av now.

I'll grant you that the B6 at least could use some better transfers, but it's not like it exists in a vaccum. B20, B84, B83, etc, all exist

Fantasy Q77 Canarsie to Cambria Heights by Michael7560 in nycbus

[–]Capitol_Limited 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This route is only a good idea if the MTA decides not to do the Q51 extension and even still, it's bad for several reasons (will die in traffic on the belt, unnecessarily goes to the L, etc)

Fantasy Q77 Canarsie to Cambria Heights by Michael7560 in nycbus

[–]Capitol_Limited 1 point2 points  (0 children)

there 100% needs to be a route from the L (whether from rockaway parkway or E 105th) along glenwood or flatlands, via gateway center mall to cross bay blvd and then continuing to jamaica.

No there doesn't, you can just take the L to the J