Almost literally?
― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Sunday, 28 August 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
Lol. Once the city is up and running again, we need to get drinks.
― Virginia Plain, Sunday, 28 August 2011 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
With limited exceptions, service will resume across the subway system at 6:00 a.m. Monday morning. Service will be less frequent than normal, and customers should expect longer waits and more crowded trains. Frequency of service will improve over the course of the day. Specifically:
•3 trains will operate between 137th Street/City College and New Lots Avenue; Substitute bus service will be provided between Harlem 148th Street and 135th Street connecting with the 2 train.•C trains suspended; A trains will make all local stops from 207th St. to Lefferts Blvd. •No service in the Rockaways. (Rockaway Blvd. to Far Rockaway and Rockaway Park)•6 trains runs local in the Bronx•7 trains run local•S Franklin Avenue Shuttle (FAS) Suspended•N trains terminate at Kings Highway. Shuttle bus service between Kings Highway and Stillwell Terminal.
The Staten Island Railway will resume normal service at midnight tonight.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2011 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
Fuck.
― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Monday, 29 August 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
cosign
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
what a DELIGHTFUL weekend.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2011 01:36 (twelve years ago) link
metro north still fucked so I don't have to go to work! woohoo
― iatee, Monday, 29 August 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
sorta hope it's not fucked tuesday!
I bet this 'limited' service is gonna be a clusterfuck. But gotta make the donuts!
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
I don't have to be at work until 12:30, but I would greatly prefer not to go in at all.
― Virginia Plain, Monday, 29 August 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
thank god the crucial Staten Island Railway will be back soon
― buzza, Monday, 29 August 2011 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
looks like the subway is running fine? anyone have any problems?
― iatee, Monday, 29 August 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
Nope. Worked great for me this morning
― Don't ask for the steening, ask for the HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 August 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
I had to wait 8 minutes for the 7 which resulted in me being 5 minutes late for work. Most unbeneficial natural disaster ever.
― Virginia Plain, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
I assumed the hamstrung A train would be such a great aggravation that I was better off riding my bike, so I did.
― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
C was running fine when i took it this afternoon!
NJ transit on the other hand
― max, Monday, 29 August 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
totally PERFECT! after all, it was time to deliver the wage slaves to their masters. If this had happened Labor Day weekend, things would've been up Tuesday.
Shutting the city down at NOON on Saturday was balls.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
when would you have suggested shutting it down?
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 August 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
After I saw Mysteries of Lisbon.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2011 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
If it hadn't shut down the water would have carried you to Lisbon.
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 August 2011 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
morns can't nice things just be nice sometimes?
― Cass McCars (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 06:27 (twelve years ago) link
I mean morbs
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
Tracks washed out
― Aerosol, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
This morning's commute saw a hipster with big glasses along with sticky-uppy hair and a dude in John Coltrane shirt. Thought I was trapped in some ILX dreamscape.
― Hipster Shake Boogie (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
to be fair to NJT they got hit way worse than the MTA did
― max, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
beginning of god's plan to wipe out the suburbs
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/09/02/nyregion/JERVIS/JERVIS-articleLarge.jpg
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/nyregion/port-jervis-train-line-will-take-months-to-repair.html?ref=nyregion
― iatee, Friday, 2 September 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
our new public transit system:
http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/09/14/nyc-chooses-alta-to-operate-bike-share-system-with-10000-bikes/
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
Gotta love those water-main breaks for the Monday PM rush
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
it was an 100 year old year old tube
― iatee, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
and funding for 'less than 100 year old' things doesn't exist because people like this are in charge: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/nyregion/governor-andrew-cuomo-eagerly-attends-an-auto-show.html
― iatee, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
+1 for avoiding morbs-is-old joke-1 for 'an 100'
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
no you see I was saying it w/ a british accent
― iatee, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
-2
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/ahead-of-its-time-an-icon-goes-digital/
― iatee, Thursday, 29 September 2011 02:59 (twelve years ago) link
from Subway-✧✧✧@ale✧✧✧.m✧✧.i✧✧✧to MTA Alerts Subscriberdate Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:42 PMsubject MANH, A, B. C. D. 1 train, Black Eyed Peas Concert
All persons attending the Black Eyed Peas concert in Central Park are to detrain at the 59th Street-Columbus Circle Station for entry to the concert.
― mookieproof, Friday, 30 September 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/03/soon-l-will-mean-less-crowded-subway-officials-say/
But the report (see below) also offers an inadvertent manual for weary riders trying to beat the crowds. From 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays, for instance, the Brooklyn-bound L sometimes carries up to 35 percent more passengers than the prescribed maximum load. The lesson: midafternoon barbecues in Williamsburg are not recommended.The good news for riders is that the sardinelike conditions may soon be coming to an end: subway officials have pledged to run more L trains on the weekends, starting in the summer of 2012, according to State Senator Daniel L. Squadron, a Democrat representing parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan whose office requested the study.
The good news for riders is that the sardinelike conditions may soon be coming to an end: subway officials have pledged to run more L trains on the weekends, starting in the summer of 2012, according to State Senator Daniel L. Squadron, a Democrat representing parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan whose office requested the study.
― max, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
a subway conductor answers all your nyc transit questions!
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kx5fa/iama_new_york_city_transit_subway_conductor_ama/
― theosophy b. hawkins (donna rouge), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
lol, a single extra weekday morning L train between 9 and 9:30 ain't gonna do shit.
I guess they're just at capacity for the 8-9am hour and can't add more trains? Or what?
Maybe the best solution is to expand ferry service.
― Disraeli Geirs (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
OTOH, it would not be hard to increase weekend L service from ZERO
― Disraeli Geirs (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
most of the time that they're shutting down the l like that it's so they can install the new tech that will allow increased capacity.
― iatee, Monday, 10 October 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
and yes hurting I believe it's basically at capacity atm. ferry service is mostly a joke as far as commuting goes. fun tho.
― iatee, Monday, 10 October 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
I was just down by those new condos/rentals on the waterfront (where Brooklyn Flea is now) and I saw they were running the ferries pretty rapidly. I was thinking what if they had like five of those docks on each side of the river and maybe included a subway transfer with your $4 fare -- at least some of the more well-heeled nu-Williamsburgers would probably take the option and relieve some of the pressure on the subways.
― Disraeli Geirs (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
I.e. five docks on each side just for williamsburg. Obv there are other docks.
― Disraeli Geirs (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
subway transfer would be a nice start but still those ferries are seasonal and not super cost effective for the amount of people they're moving
― iatee, Monday, 10 October 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
how many of those well-heeled burgers are gonna wait for a ferry outside for 15 minutes in the snow
― iatee, Monday, 10 October 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm, maybe a Williamsburg Bridge express bus then. Not that it would be very "express" in morning traffic, but as someone who does the Graham to Union Square ride every day I can't see how the fuck the L is going to accommodate the even more commmuters who may/may not move into all those bldgs around McCarren that aren't already full. Maybe some will find their way to the M.
― Disraeli Geirs (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 October 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
the bigger solution is just to upzone around transit lines w/ capacity instead of around what neighborhoods are hot. not that there's a ton of room to build in Brooklyn regardless I guess.
― iatee, Monday, 10 October 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
also to build more subway lines
― iatee, Monday, 10 October 2011 22:32 (twelve years ago) link