I rode the 
to Broad Channel and transferred to the shuttle to Rock Park 116th Street. Returning to Broad Channel, I looked out the railfan window. (The polarized glass doesn't distort reality above ground as it does underground.) The train arrived at Hammel's Wye the same time an from Far Rock approached the wye. Strangely, the went first followed by the shuttle. Passengers for Manhattan getting off the shuttle had to wait for the next . Does anybody know why the instead of the shuttle went first?
After discharging passengers, the shuttle goes to relay and gets out of the way of the . It seems to be a short wait for the and passengers wouldn't have to wait so long for a connection if the shuttle went first into Broad Channel.