Most overnight buses in Brooklyn die on Sunday.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 June 2010 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I've stopped taking the L in the morning, it's impossible and dreadfully unpleasant
L Train Dubbed 'Most Romantic' Subway Line by Craigslist Love Gurus
― mookinho (mookieproof), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Ways to commute from Spuyten Duyvil to midtown:
} metro-north - Prestigious but lifeless} express bus - best for sleeping. The quietest borough to borough commute } bus to the subway - half price but crowded even during off-peak
― calstars, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 01:56 (thirteen years ago) link
the olive green looks even less green IRL?
for real, it looks beige. looks pretty bad
― dmr, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
it looks like the parks are just big clumps of dirt
― iatee, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 02:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Can we take a minute to talk about the Lexington Avenue-63rd St. station? It is so fucking cavernous and so far underground and every time I use it I feel like I'm stuck in some sort of early 1970's version of purgatory. It's amazing that it's so big and used for just one line! Also, apparently it didn't open until 1989 but looks/feels like it was designed much earlier. I mean, those fucking tiles, oh my GOD! And also the way the signs above the (neverending) escalators are designed and how dirty they are; the whole thing just seems so surreal to me. Do stranger stations exist?
― the aztec mystic pizza (Stevie D), Monday, 12 July 2010 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
This is the F station, by the way.
it's not particularly useful in 2010, but it's going to be when the second avenue subway is finished; it will then serve as a Q stop (the Q is gonna be re-routed to the UES and this will be a pretty useful Q-F transfer.) that half of the station has already basically been built and they're just waiting for the second avenue subway.
it's also being used to get the LIRR to grand central for the east side access project.
― iatee, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
but I agree, it's a really strange place. feels like an abandoned mine or something.
― iatee, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought this thread bump was gonna be about this though:
http://secondavenuesagas.com/2010/07/09/fare-hikes-could-include-metrocard-surcharge-cap-on-rides/
― iatee, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
my new brooklyn-to-midtown commute kinda suxx compared to my brooklyn-to-wall st commute. getting on at grand central and transferring at union sqaure during rush hr is foul
― dmr, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh, I hated going thru GC at rush hours last winter.
I really hate announcements referring to us as "customers" instead of "passengers."
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that rubs me the wrong way too
― max, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
cuz it reminds you we're paying for this shit
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/07/13/2010-07-13_mta_plan_for_limited_unlimited_metrocard.html
I guess 90 is the magic number. this is a really, really bad idea.
― iatee, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
sure, why would people who LIVE AND WORK HERE wanna GO OUT ON THE WEEKEND????
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
or this?:
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/07/14/2010-07-14_mta_plan_250_for_singlerides.html
one-trip rides are the best place to raise fares - hits tourists and infrequent users instead of people who depend on it. also gives people more incentive to buy more than one ride at a time. this would be infinitely better than limiting monthly rides.
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
being dumped on Hoyt-Schermerhorn platform this morning by rerouted F, I simply screamed "NO ONE CAN HEAR YOUR FUCKING ANNOUNCEMENTS!"
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 August 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Saw an Asian lady reading a Chinese newspaper a few days ago and there amidst the black and white Chinese characters were two color pictures of Grace Kelly from Dial M For Murder. Might as well have been in 3D for the eyepoppingness of it.
― Bali Eiffel Tower Hai (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 August 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I was taking the 1 uptown last week and it skipped from 168th to 207th, missing all the stops in between that are in walking distance from my apartment with nary an announcement. I was really pissed.
― Mordy, Friday, 13 August 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
how do you guys stand waiting down there when it's 120 f, and the train's been delayed for an unknown amount of time
blech
― dyao, Friday, 13 August 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I HATE that!!! Why do they keep doing that, like just skipping stops?? Is this normal? My Q turned into an R unexpectedly and I missed the bus because it took 20 minutes longer to get to Manhattan, and I already had to walk so much fucking farther than I should have because the list of upcoming stops was glitching out and listing the stops in the wrong direction, so by the time I realized where the B transfer was the doors had just closed 3 seconds prior...
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Friday, 13 August 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
how do you guys stand waiting down there when it's 120 f, and the train's been delayed for an unknown amount of timeblech
― Bali Eiffel Tower Hai (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 August 2010 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
But yes, I hate that. I hate when I make a brisk but relatively comfortable walk to the station through the hot air outside and then have to stand there with my slightly elevated metabolism in the hotter air of the station while the platform gets more and more crowded and the train is nowhere in sight.
― Bali Eiffel Tower Hai (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 August 2010 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
No way man that's my favorite part of the subway. And when the train pulls up, it's one that doesn't even run on that fucking line, and you get to make the exciting decision of "Where will this E go next!!! Should I get on it??"
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Friday, 13 August 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Uggggggh. My commute is now L to Un Sq and then 4/5 uptown. US is a traffic jam of reatards AND the 4/5 area is a fucking OVEN. It's unbelievable. I'd rather wait 20 mins on the L platform than be stuck behind someone who can't climb the stairs from the 4/5.
― Jesus doesn't want me for a thundercloud (Laurel), Friday, 13 August 2010 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
It really makes me feel for the elderly and/or infirm, they have no other options than to struggle through the subway system and I'm not unsympathetic but DAMN when you miss your train by .7 seconds in August it's enough to make a person forget every compassion.
― Jesus doesn't want me for a thundercloud (Laurel), Friday, 13 August 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
You know the other great thing about the EZ-bake oven platform is that it really brings out the funky terrarium aroma that has permeated the subway system in recent times.
― Bali Eiffel Tower Hai (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 14 August 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
it's kind of amazing how hot the turnstiles are at my stop
― mookieproof, Saturday, 14 August 2010 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Laurel, I feel better to know that I am not the only that experiences rail rage like that.
― Bali Eiffel Tower Hai (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 14 August 2010 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link
There is some great Nabokov quote that I'll never be able to find about there being no greater hate than that for the broad back in front of you in the unmoving queue.
― Bali Eiffel Tower Hai (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 14 August 2010 01:37 (thirteen years ago) link
esp if it's texting
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 August 2010 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Nabokov very ahead of his time
― Loup-Garou G (The Yellow Kid), Sunday, 15 August 2010 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
shameless
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/24/2010-08-24_an_mta_sideswipe_riders_stunned_as_agency_releases_plan_for_whopping_130_monthly.html
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, that would be closing in on my car payment. (tho of course there's gas and insurance etc. still, tho. no wonder i couldn't afford to stay in nyc.)
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
not actually gonna happen
― iatee, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I wd literally jump 'stiles if that happened
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm pretty astonished at how inefficient the MTA is
― dayo, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
like even if they hiked the fare to 2.50, you would need to ride the MTA more than 52 times a month to make it worthwhile
― dayo, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I ride it 2-6 times a day, including weekends, I bet well over 100/month on average.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
you might as well hook the MTA up to one of your veins
― dayo, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
the average unlimited ride use is 59 times a month tho
― iatee, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
it's gonna be $104, I think
― iatee, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:46 (thirteen years ago) link
the real answer is to blow the MTA up and start again
― dayo, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
MTA might not be an A+ operation, but the biggest problems = albany.
― iatee, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Uggggggh. My commute is now L to Un Sq and then 4/5 uptown. US is a traffic jam of reatards AND the 4/5 area is a fucking OVEN.
ooo ttt mmm
my office is in midtown now instead of Wall Street, I've switched up my commute eight different ways to not transfer in Union Square
Grand Central is pretty damn bad too (can't avoid that one, it's where I get off)
― dmr, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
working from home is the best
― max, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Hi, dmr!! I get off at Grand Cent too, I walk through the main room to get to my build instead of going outside. A little beauty never hurt a day.
― Jesus doesn't want me for a thundercloud (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Aargh, Continental Avenue track fire
― Poldark City (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 September 2010 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
surely the flooding from the hurricane will put it out.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 September 2010 00:20 (thirteen years ago) link