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Jason Rabinowitz
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AirlineFlyer. From Twitter. Airlines, airplanes, trains, transit, travel. #AvGeek co-host of Flightradar24's AvTalk podcast. https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/avtalk-podcast/ email: [email protected]
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · Nov 12
Just realized I never properly re-introduced myself. Hi, I’m Jason, aka @airlineflyer. I post about airplanes, airports, trains, public transit and travel. I co-host @flightradar24.com’s AvTalk podcast with @petchmo.bsky.social.

Looking forward to reconnecting with familiar names meeting new ones.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 8h
The Long Lines equipment has been offline for decades. The towers themselves host all sorts of other stuff now, including modern microwave links
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 8h
Nice
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 9h
Probably. But the Long Lines antennas are just there now. They don’t do anything.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 9h
It’s kinda nuts how there’s still demossiomed AT&T Long Lines facilities in NYC, even in dense areas like 53rd Street. They just never get taken down.

These antennas need line of sight to others and had to be way up high, which they were in the 1950s. Now they’re dwarfed by modern high rises.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 9h
Yea it really should just say D at that point. Nobody cares that it was a B train since it’s now effectively a D. But this is a common thing for MTA.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 10h
I got my $2.90 worth. Transportation and a show.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 10h
They sorted it out at DeKalb bsky.app/profile/airl...
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 10h
Welp, my first R211 B train ride was an interesting one! It turned into a B train via the D line at my home station, which was perfect. On the old trains you would’ve just had to hear the broken PA and figure out yourself. But this new train is full of digital information. A++
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 10h
Shenanigans!

bsky.app/profile/airl...
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 10h
Welp, my first R211 B train ride was an interesting one! It turned into a B train via the D line at my home station, which was perfect. On the old trains you would’ve just had to hear the broken PA and figure out yourself. But this new train is full of digital information. A++
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 10h
Welp, my first R211 B train ride was an interesting one! It turned into a B train via the D line at my home station, which was perfect. On the old trains you would’ve just had to hear the broken PA and figure out yourself. But this new train is full of digital information. A++
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 10h
Oooo neat feature
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 10h
And yet not a peep about that on board. Displays still all day regular B routing as we cross the bridge.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 10h
As long as it stops at DeKalb, that’s fine.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 10h
Yesss finally snagged an R211 B train and it’s is FLYING on the 34th to W 4th express stretch.

This train is so clean, it must be brand new.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 11h
I saw emergency vehicles using that bike lane to bypass the traffic. So good.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 11h
I have been watching this closely recently. Bus drivers routinely depart their first stop 2-5 minutes early, predictably. It’s like they operate on a schedule totally different than what’s public. It’s maddening.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 11h
Doooo ittttt
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 11h
You can always count on United to host a fantastic “we just announced new international routes” celebration in NYC, featuring food and drink from those destinations. Love it.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 12h
The traffic headed to the Lincoln Tunnel on 11th Ave today is INSANE.

Congestion pricing is $9 now? Triple it! Crossing 11th I almost got run over a few times with the green light, including by a horse drawn carriage in the bike lane. Wtf lol.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 13h
And I’m trying again in a few weeks!
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 13h
Flex-post, bike lane, bike share dock protected painted sidewalk extension.

What a combo.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 13h
Hey yea we do business with alternativeairlines. They’re great!
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 14h
Oh the irony of advertising an AI pendant “friend” in the subway, a place where the lack of data connectivity makes said Friend literally useless.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 14h
I can’t even remember the last time I got a flight booking a fraud alert from Chase. It basically doesn’t happen.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 15h
Ohhhh the rush of booking a flight so out of the ordinary that even Chase is like "whoa whoa whoa, this doesn't look right, I'm gonna stop you right there buddy"
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 17h
can't tell if usual EWR ATC staffing issue Fry from Futurama squinting or government shutdown ATC staffing issue
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