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NYRangers42 t1_j8fd0f4 wrote

PATH weekend and late night service is pathetic. I get that work has to be done, especially on NWK-WTC, but they are clearly using that as an excuse now to shaft the weekend riders. At the bare minimum, they need to separate the 33rd Street lines during the day on weekends. Those trains are downright dangerous. Also, my understanding is that the majority of the NWK-WTC work is between NWK and JSQ. If this is the case, I don't see why they can't run a JSQ-WTC train on 20 minute headways to complement the 20 minute headways on NWK-WTC (i.e. WTC bound trains would leave JSQ every 10 minutes, with every other one originating at JSQ)

There are also a bunch of small service decreases that took place during COVID and never were brought back. They increased the 33rd line Saturday headways from 10 minutes to 12 minutes, changed overnight from 35 minutes to 40 minute headways, and got rid of the 3 minute rush hour headways on NWK-WTC. Really awful stuff.

The overnight NJ bound Holland Tunnel closure has been all over the news recently. You would think that PA would think to supplement overnight PATH service since they are the ones closing the tunnel. Nope!

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ffejie OP t1_j8fd7ce wrote

Give this guy a NYTimes OpEd. You nailed every aspect of this.

(also, user name checks out - probably a lot of visits to 33rd/MSG 😆)

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NYRangers42 t1_j8fj8gw wrote

Yep, always down to grab a postgame drink but I make sure that, no matter what, I am at 33rd before 11 when the garbage 33-HOB-JSQ service begins

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Aggravating_Rise_179 t1_j8jwyjy wrote

Look, im happy we have a 24 hrs train from Manhattan that connects easily to most of the mta lines and i don't really care about waiting for trains as late night trains are always a mess...but I hate that they just cut services and don't fucking tell people or try to put them back... it reminds me of when they almost cut the overnight and weekend trains in 2015 and then decided against it and this smells of them just trying to slowly cut the service just to save a few bucks, while hamstringing the economy of the urban communities along the lines and in Manhattan

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PutridLight t1_j8lk88z wrote

2 min and 5 min, truly awful first world stuff we need to deal with, and which will just result in riders staring down at their phone for an additional 2 min and 5 min respectively.

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NYRangers42 t1_j8mud8p wrote

It's not about the wait time, it's about how crowded those trains get because they are running fewer trains. Peak Saturday JSQ-HOB-33 is suffocating

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Economy-Cupcake808 t1_j8fl5ts wrote

Past few weekends has had single tracking between at least EXPL and WTC. Hard to squeeze a Hoboken train in there.

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NewNewark t1_j8jjsv4 wrote

You know that tunnel was closed on weekends for like 2 years in 2017 right? Whats the excuse this time?

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