borough's trains to be pulled by burros
I just took the F at 11am, no perceptible delays
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
(also only hour the F is not SRO)
Post here when you ride the G train shuttle bus.
― Who Loves The Three Suns (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 01:23 (nine years ago) link
I ate some overpriced artisanal pasta place near the bus stop. Won't be doing that again anytime soon.
― Who Loves The Three Suns (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 01:40 (nine years ago) link
i'm doing everything possible to avoid G madness
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 03:41 (nine years ago) link
I rode it Saturday night, to get to the gay bar in Wmsburg after the Mets game. Not bad at that hour.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 03:43 (nine years ago) link
Sometimes I take the A train at the same time a baseball game has gotten out and people are going home, and then I curse the parents that bore me.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 04:10 (nine years ago) link
So many ways to be annoyed on the subway, so little time.
― Flan O'Brien, bibliotecario de Babel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 04:11 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bedbugs-found-3-n-line-subway-trains-article-1.1893220
― who cares? the moon sucks. (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 7 August 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link
where is baseball affecting the A train?
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 August 2014 16:06 (nine years ago) link
http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/96700509489/how-memorizing-19-05-can-help-you-outsmart-the-mta
― 龜, Monday, 8 September 2014 13:34 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/23/new-york-subway-homesick-london-underground-mta-map
lolololol it seems fairly clear that she was living on the ACE.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 13:09 (nine years ago) link
if she was confused about which train was the local vs. express that resulted in 3 extra stops before reaching hoyt schermerhon, then she was getting on at nostrand, where the express and local are *on different floors*
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 13:14 (nine years ago) link
and the train letter and number is on the side of every car at least once, except for me today since I was on a train with some dead electronics: no signboards and no air conditioning, the latter giving me a nice taste of the london underground.
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 13:16 (nine years ago) link
her complaints: air conditioned cars, express trains, color coding by manhattan trunk lines, and too many fonts (?? should just be helvetica aside from some odd ancient signs)
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 13:18 (nine years ago) link
her legit complaints: dilapidated stations, cluttered map, no countdown clocks
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 13:19 (nine years ago) link
I am a willing victim of any and all nyc subway trolling. I'm ashamed.
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
otm
― zero content albums (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 13:22 (nine years ago) link
the map isn't needlessly complex, it needs to be complex, because there are just a lot of weird things going on in the system
― iatee, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
legit complains: 'I ask the unimpressed, triumphantly unhelpful MTA staff.'
― iatee, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link
I can't believe she's complaining about AC, it's almost like there were zero typical NYC summer days this summer.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link
NB I have come close to passing out on the F platform at Herald Sq before.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:02 (nine years ago) link
not that it doesn't have its problems too, but I like something closer to the map on the right, just for clarity (and for separating local and express lines):http://www.kickmap.com/images/7_wholemap_comparison.jpg
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
a movable icy tundra
this is the best part!
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:13 (nine years ago) link
YES. cv, where is that map hosted?? I used to have a bookmark on something hosted by Columbia but it went down years ago and I never replaced it. I want to look at that one.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:16 (nine years ago) link
I miss the affordability of the days when NYC was as dilapidated as the worst stations. Redilapidate promptly!
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
that map still has the W and V trainsxp
― mizzell, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link
Thought revive would be about E train slowdown this morning.
― Dear Catastrophe Theory Waitress (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
that map is this: http://www.kickmap.comit only exists in full as an app, but it's the one I tend to use.
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
http://www.kickmap.com/about.html
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
xxxp Well it is from 2007. I can't blow it up anymore on my tiny screen so I can't see the station details.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link
did you pay for the full thing or just get the free ap?xp
― mizzell, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
With all the non-subway information that the current MTA map does show - like the location of all the heliports in the city - it doesn't offer this simple but important piece of subway information indicating what station stop to get off to turn around in case you miss your stop.
Delightful!!!! I want this!
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, separating the express and locals as distinct visual lines makes a LOT of sense. Sometimes I feel like the mapping is caught between practical-mindedness and hardcore transit blogger types who resist any change that would further obscure the physical geometry of the tunnels and their roots in the "IHT Nth Avenue Line" or whatever. I don't care, I basically want a network of warp zones where I can glance at the map, pretty quickly, and see what gets me where, with the fewest stops. I dunno if the Kickmap is nailing that 100% but it's better, and wayyyyyy less ugly. NYC is this viper's nest of graphic designers, it must be miserable for them to see the thing every day.
Weirdest thing about the Kickmap: it purges commuter trains! I guess that doesn't matter most of the time, but it's an important route option on weekends. Taking the subway to, say, Flushing Meadows is a real drag but for $1.50 more you can get there from Penn Station in like twenty peaceful minutes.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
I think most transit nerds prefer the simplified map, to be honest! I mean, we've always got nycsubway.org if we want to look up track and yard maps or whatever.kickmap does a some things that annoy me in a few places: there's a really dumb curve shown the G train between Fulton, Clinton, and Classon for instance, and the display of a lot of the streets is sort of nonsensical and might be better omitted a lot of the time. I have the pay version fyi... I like the neighborhood breakdowns (more to argue about)
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
Neighborhood breakdowns also just make it more fun to stare at the map while killing time at the platform IMO. They could make it a fundraising thing - pay a buck to suggest a change to your neighborhood's boundary, other people are paying to try and push it back or delete the made-up neighborhood entirely.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, September 24, 2014 10:02 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
Waiting for the F at West 4th once half an hour delay I got off the subway 20 pounds lighter from water loss
― 龜, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
I am convinced that the downtown F is 2x-3x as frequent as the uptown and my friend disagrees
― 龜, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
not at PM rush, it doesn't seem
and for weekend interborough travel i always forget to ADD AN HOUR
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
if you have not been at the west 4th station at 1am on a Friday night you are missing out
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
Every time I catch a train at 1 AM there the train stops in between stations to let off MTA workers
― 龜, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
that stop is a serious melting pot crowded full of hipsters, homeless, businesspeople, dates, meatheads, tourists, kids, MTA workers and buskers round that time
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
It's mostly been NYU fratbros and their dates when I've been
― 龜, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
i may be getting there a bit later than 1 to be fairbut there's always rasta guitar player and sometimes tap dancer and dulcimer player and always always some dude with a full fucking drum kitand a lotta full-on fabulous queens and cranky old men and a churro cart lady and the dude who really should've taken an uber and is realizing that now
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
hey, some of these subway movies def worth seeing on the big screen (Pelham 123, obviously)... i've never even seen Style Wars or The Incident, among others.
http://www.bam.org/film/2014/retro-metro
http://www.villagevoice.com/2014-09-24/film/bam-retro-metro-review/
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
style wars is super great
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
I'll be seeing Pelham for surr
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
I've never seen a churro cart lady day or night at w 4 and that was my stop for a year
― 龜, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
Minnelli's The Clock is really great.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
dayo i'm back of the F train; i see churro carts out there about mid platform.The Clock is A+, yes
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link