"Armed with a new strategy for dispatching trains, rail traffic controllers at the MTA are now using various tools - including holding trains at select stations - to speed up the R line through Brooklyn. "If a train is scheduled [to arrive] every six minutes, and customers are waiting 10, that's not good service," Bill Amarosa, NYC Transit's head of subways, said last week."
""We started a new dispatching strategy on the R line to keep more even service coming into the Brooklyn end for riders returning to Sunset Park and Bay Ridge," he said. "By looking at the train sequencing in Manhattan on the downtown trains, we can keep those trains more even, and avoid big gaps in service that customers were seeing on the Brooklyn end.""
NYC Transit implemented a dispatching strategy to speed the R line through Brooklyn by evening southbound headways and reducing bunching. Data collected by NYC Transit shows riders boarding trains in Brooklyn bound for Bay Ridge and Sunset Park experienced average waits about two minutes longer than scheduled. Tower operators and rail controllers are using tools such as one- to two-minute holds at Whitehall St. and granting right-of-way at switches while crossing over other lines to maintain even spacing through the Montague St. tubes. The approach aims to deliver more consistent train intervals into Jay St., DeKalb and southern Brooklyn stations, avoiding long gaps followed by closely spaced trains.
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