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Re: Best Trip?

From Daniel Convissor <danielc@panix.com>
Newsgroups nyc.transit
Subject Re: Best Trip?
Date 2026-07-10 14:21 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID <112qv4t$oqa$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)
References <112hhif$2flh4$2@dont-email.me>

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In <112hhif$2flh4$2@dont-email.me> hounslow3 <hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

... snip ...
>I remember how trains would then absolutely fly, going so fast that it 
>seemed they they were tripping on themselves, especially as they started 
>to really pick up speed at Canal Street. They easily negotiated the 
>curves at Spring and Astor, before coasting into Union Square.
... snip ...
>Sadly, that doesn't appear to happen anymore, following incidents at 
>14th Street-Union Square and on the Williamsburg Bridge.

Yes, those crashes slowed things WAY down on the subways.  Andy Byford
started to revert some/many/whatever of those moves with the Save Safe
Seconds program.

I regularly rode Metro North's Hudson Line.  Express trains would zip
along south of Tarrytown at like 70 mph.  After the Spuyten Duyvl crash,
got slowed down to like 50 mph and have never gotten back to 70.

--Dan

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Best Trip? hounslow3 <hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk> - 2026-07-07 01:34 +0100
  Re: Best Trip? hounslow3 <hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk> - 2026-07-08 23:29 +0100
  Re: Best Trip? Daniel Convissor <danielc@panix.com> - 2026-07-10 14:21 +0000
    Re: Best Trip? hounslow3 <hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk> - 2026-07-10 16:46 +0100

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