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Title: Brighton Express Service Returns October 3rd
Post by: Slants4Lyfe on September 11, 2011, 02:45:57 pm
Its Official

(http://i692.photobucket.com/albums/vv284/tvega961/grgrgrere.png)
Title: Re: Brighton Express Service Returns October 3rd
Post by: peacemak3r on September 11, 2011, 03:53:10 pm
Link to where you got that?  It's not on the MTA site. =/  It would definitely make my commute to BMCC faster.
Title: Re: Brighton Express Service Returns October 3rd
Post by: Pacific385 on September 11, 2011, 04:00:47 pm
It's true: http://travel.mtanyct.info/serviceadvisory/routeStatusResult.aspx?tag=ALL&date=10/03/2011&time=&method=getstatus4 (http://travel.mtanyct.info/serviceadvisory/routeStatusResult.aspx?tag=ALL&date=10/03/2011&time=&method=getstatus4)
Title: Re: Brighton Express Service Returns October 3rd
Post by: peacemak3r on September 11, 2011, 05:22:03 pm
You're link is giving me blank pages. (ie. the page itself with no service advisories.)
Title: Re: Brighton Express Service Returns October 3rd
Post by: Mr Railfan on September 11, 2011, 06:41:26 pm
You're link is giving me blank pages. (ie. the page itself with no service advisories.)
here: i dont know if its the same link or not
http://travel.mtanyct.info/serviceadvisory/routeStatusResult.aspx?tag=ALL&date=10/03/2011&time=&method=getstatus4 (http://travel.mtanyct.info/serviceadvisory/routeStatusResult.aspx?tag=ALL&date=10/03/2011&time=&method=getstatus4)

look at B express service resumes in brooklyn



If the page doesnt load for you go to the Mta website, look at the planed service tab and type in 10/3/11

and scroll down to B service resumes in brooklyn.
Title: Re: Brighton Express Service Returns October 3rd
Post by: Gong Gahou on September 11, 2011, 07:06:53 pm
Yep, this is true. I verified the info the same way Mr. Railfan said (Planned Service Changes - 10/3) the moment this topic came up on NYC Transit Forums. 
Title: Re: Brighton Express Service Returns October 3rd
Post by: manormortal on September 11, 2011, 08:12:42 pm
can't wait.
Title: Re: Brighton Express Service Returns October 3rd
Post by: Pacific385 on September 11, 2011, 08:34:21 pm
You're link is giving me blank pages. (ie. the page itself with no service advisories.)
Idk why, It works in IE9 but not in firefox
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It'll be nice to have something like this finally come back
Title: Re: Brighton Express Service Returns October 3rd
Post by: peacemak3r on September 11, 2011, 08:55:01 pm
Yeah, I've missed that damn express service, it'll definitely cut 10-15 minutes off my commute in the morning.
Title: Re: Brighton Express Service Returns October 3rd
Post by: Dj Hammers on September 11, 2011, 08:56:37 pm
Nevertheless, it's still not the same without the R40 Slants, R40Ms, and CI R42s on the line.
Title: Re: Brighton Express Service Returns October 3rd
Post by: Slants4Lyfe on September 11, 2011, 09:24:43 pm
Nevertheless, it's still not the same without the R40 Slants, R40Ms, and CI R42s on the line.

Couldn't agree More
Title: Re: Brighton Express Service Returns October 3rd
Post by: peacemak3r on September 11, 2011, 09:58:27 pm
I mean I guess I'm not that much of a die-hard buff, it wouldn't really affect me.
Title: Re: Brighton Express Service Returns October 3rd
Post by: Gong Gahou on September 11, 2011, 10:21:33 pm
Nevertheless, it's still not the same without the R40 Slants, R40Ms, and CI R42s on the line.
I'd miss them because I hardly rode on them on the Brighton Line or on any line on particular, but I'd prefer the R68As on the Brighton express (R68s second  :P).
Title: Re: Brighton Express Service Returns October 3rd
Post by: Dj Hammers on September 11, 2011, 10:27:58 pm
I rode the Brighton Line Express daily until I was around 6 years old so it holds a special place in my childhood memories.

There was nothing better than standing at the point of the huge R40 Slant picture window as you rocketed through Cortelyou Road...
Nowadays with the R68As it just isn't the same, there isn't that feel you got on the R40 Slants that you just knew meant that you were going down to Brighton Beach.
Title: Re: Brighton Express Service Returns October 3rd
Post by: peacemak3r on September 11, 2011, 11:51:30 pm
As of today, I've been a Brighton rider for 23 years and a couple of days.  I guess yeah the rail fan window was a blast indeed, but for me I guess times changed majority of my interest has went to automotive but I do have that sweet heart spot for my transit.  I'm trying to just say that I don't get that broken heart type of feeling if I don't see a R40 rolling down Brighton.  Best way for me to explain it.
Title: Re: Brighton Express Service Returns October 3rd
Post by: nightmare403 on September 12, 2011, 09:03:55 pm
guys its true :D   Express service resumes in Brooklyn
All times, beginning 6 AM Monday, Oct 3

Trains will make express stops at Brighton Beach, Sheepshead Bay,
Kings Hwy, Newkirk Plaza, Church Av and Prospect Pk.
Title: Re: Brighton Express Service Returns October 3rd
Post by: Dj Hammers on September 12, 2011, 09:55:24 pm
As of today, I've been a Brighton rider for 23 years and a couple of days.  I guess yeah the rail fan window was a blast indeed, but for me I guess times changed majority of my interest has went to automotive but I do have that sweet heart spot for my transit.  I'm trying to just say that I don't get that broken heart type of feeling if I don't see a R40 rolling down Brighton.  Best way for me to explain it.
I was very young when I was riding the R40 Slants daily, so it was a very different dynamic for me. Literally the first thing I really encountered in my life as something that I called "fun" was that big window up in the front. My earliest childhood memories come from that piece of glass they slapped on the storm door.

Those daily rides down to Brighton Beach were quite literally everything and the only thing I looked forward to back in those days.
For some people, they had their stuffed bear or blanket that they carried everywhere and absolutely adored, for me it was that window.
 
So when they retired the R40 Slants, it was almost as if that childhood object that you always had with you was simply destroyed.