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Re:Illustrations of ‘Unseen’ Japanese Maintenance Trains Tha... by guardiangod on Thursday April 06, 2023 @08:19PM (#35476413)
I live in NYC and am well aware of the so-called 24/7 service. The fact is that it's 24/7 only in midtown Manhattan. If you are on the 1/2/3 or ACE or 4/5/6 lines it's likely you'd get 'For the next 3 weekends services from some outer borough station to 178th street will be suspended from 10PM to 8 AM. Please use the connection bus from blah to blah."

Even the Q line, that is less than 10 years old, went though the same hassle in Feb, and that's squarely in midtown.

Also, during the weekend I find taking the bus to usually be faster than taking the subway. Literally buses creeping across New York is faster trains.

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Re:Illustrations of ‘Unseen’ Japanese Maintenance Trains Tha... by Animats on Thursday April 06, 2023 @08:27PM (#35476478)
That has a lot to do with which parts of the system are 4-track.
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Re:Illustrations of ‘Unseen’ Japanese Maintenance Trains Tha... by guardiangod on Thursday April 06, 2023 @08:35PM (#35476545)
As a user I don't care if a line is 2 track, 3 tracks, or quad tracks. What I care is reliability and convinence (and price too but my company is paying for it so blah).

If you live in the Bronx, there's a good chance you won't be going home at 1AM by trains, even if the crazies don't get to you first.

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Re:Illustrations of ‘Unseen’ Japanese Maintenance Trains Tha... by Animats on Thursday April 06, 2023 @08:40PM (#35476592)
The point is that if you have a four-track system, you can shut down two tracks for maintenance and still maintain service.
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Re:Illustrations of ‘Unseen’ Japanese Maintenance Trains Tha... by m463 on Thursday April 06, 2023 @09:53PM (#35477084)
I think this is the comment the entire thread needs.
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Re:Illustrations of ‘Unseen’ Japanese Maintenance Trains Tha... by numpad0 on Friday April 07, 2023 @03:26AM (#35479076)
Not sure if I'm helping but here's my attempted visualization[0]

0: https://gist.github.com/numpad0/6e77028ab3e073e4b02f17cf50d0...

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