I can take either the B54, B57 or B62 from Downtown Brooklyn to home. With 3 options, I figure I shouldn't have to wait for very long, certainly not longer than the interval of each of these buses. Instead, I waited over 20 minutes and then three B57s and two B62s arrived all at once. The MTA has got to do something, ANYTHING to tackle bus bunching. That's a 49 minute gap on the 54, around 6 pm on a Saturday.
Was planning on taking a ride in the Staten Island Railway and I wanted to know if there's any chance of catching an R44 still in service? It would be fun to ride one with my son before they're all gone.
I ride the Atlantic Branch from Jamaica to Nostrand of AT everyday. Yesterday, I'm on time to catch the 5:56 departure to Brooklyn, which normally arrives on track 3. For whatever reason, the 5:51 Oyster Bay train is there, waiting to depart. First it gets stuck waiting for a Port Jeff train leaving ahead of it. Then, it seems to be having some sort of door trouble. Point is, it doesn't leave and the 5:56 is just hanging out waiting for Track 3 to clear.
It gets to be 6:02 and I decide to head over to track 11, as the 6:05 departure to Brooklyn is there waiting to depart. 6:05 comes, and we don't depart. I look.at Radar and see that the OB train has finally left, and the 5:56 is now at the platform. The 6:05 waits until 6:08 to close up and leave, and as we depart, I see the 5:56 leaving at the same time. Of course the 5:56 goes ahead of us, and we get stuck waiting for it, and again creeping up to East NY.
It seems like there were multiple ways to avoid all this delay. 1. The OB train should have been on track 5, which was empty the whole time. 2, if track 3 was unavailable with a train not moving, why not just push the 5:56 through on track 2 in between the Penn trains? 3, why not let the 6:05 depart on time? It would have been out of the way by the time the 5:56 actually departed? I ended up losing nearly 20 minutes on my commute, and it's not the end of the world, but it seems like these things can be managed a bit better.