http://gothamist.com/2016/05/05/mta_l_train_nightmare.php
― 龜, Friday, 6 May 2016 14:41 (eight years ago) link
lol
― 龜, Friday, 6 May 2016 14:42 (eight years ago) link
this will not be fun
― ulysses, Friday, 6 May 2016 16:03 (eight years ago) link
Times on Wednesday had a "crowded trains" piece incl mention of those "platform controllers" I've been seeing whenever i take the Lexington hell line.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 May 2016 16:06 (eight years ago) link
the guys with the flashlights?
― 龜, Friday, 6 May 2016 16:18 (eight years ago) link
yep
they mentioned London closes tube stations when they get crowded, lol
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 May 2016 16:41 (eight years ago) link
article is reminiscent of 'zone one'
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 May 2016 16:56 (eight years ago) link
wow even the covens had to move to Queens
NYCT Subway @NYCTSubway #ServiceAlert: 34 St bound #7 trains local from 74 St to Queensboro Plaza, due to witch problems at 33 St. See http://mta.info
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 May 2016 13:41 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alDP7r4M7FM
― Old Familiar Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 May 2016 13:52 (eight years ago) link
Middle village is in the grip of dark sorcery iirc
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Monday, 9 May 2016 14:32 (eight years ago) link
For a second there I read that as "Little Village."
― Old Familiar Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 May 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eShtZSx4kWc
― 龜, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link
unpleasant for me
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/05/f-train-express-coming-this-summer.html
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 20:40 (eight years ago) link
not too bad for me out in Little Ukraine
tho i'd prefer to get the hell out
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 20:54 (eight years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/NewYorkFingCity/photos/a.384422408343161.1073741826.384405841678151/974708332647896/
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Thursday, 19 May 2016 00:29 (eight years ago) link
well after that shitty commute i am going to hatefuck a tunnel on my way home
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
So I got my motorcycle permit for my 40th birthday, and have been riding my scooter to school every day that it doesn't rain. Sorry, MTA! (No fucks were actually given in the making of this awesome decision.)
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
Nice, I used to commute to work by scooter from Astoria to the Flatiron district. Loved that ride.
Be careful with just your permit though -- periodically mc/scooter "safety" checkpoints are set up around the city and they'll impound your scooter if they catch you without a mc license (they also check for inspection sticker and current plate registration sticker). I often got pulled over on 2nd Ave just south of the Queensboro Bridge.
― early rejecter, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 17:09 (seven years ago) link
Due to an unruly passenger at York St, southbound F trains are running with delays.Allow additional travel time.
Allow additional travel time.
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 June 2016 23:25 (seven years ago) link
F/G have been fucked for weeks
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Saturday, 4 June 2016 15:40 (seven years ago) link
we all need to get unruly
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 June 2016 01:03 (seven years ago) link
i'm inclined to agree with you. i predict a riot.
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Monday, 6 June 2016 00:54 (seven years ago) link
what with the recent "three men save a guy who fell on the tracks" feelgood video making the rounds, i am sorta grumpy that i can't work in "heck _I_ did that" into conversation anywhere but ilx.
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Thursday, 16 June 2016 16:00 (seven years ago) link
Q train ~= bad blowjob
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 July 2016 14:16 (seven years ago) link
not perfect but still pretty cool?
― mookieproof, Friday, 1 July 2016 14:21 (seven years ago) link
sloppy, takes forever
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 July 2016 14:47 (seven years ago) link
https://cwhong.carto.com/viz/6dfca01c-47e5-11e6-9fd3-0ee66e2c9693/public_map
― 龜, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 15:01 (seven years ago) link
^^^ very cool. Would love to see it incorporate population density somehow, so you can really see where people are underserved... though I guess there are other maps for that.
― 'they pelted us with rocks and garbage' (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 15:06 (seven years ago) link
I think 15 min walk is still pretty reasonable but maybe I'm thinking too much in young healthy person terms.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
it seems insane to me that according to that map I am in a subway desert
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 15:10 (seven years ago) link
10 minutes isn't that much. i could hit a passing M train with a tomato from my window and it still takes 5-6 minutes to walk to the station.
― adam, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
Fifteen minutes can be a long time with regards to physical safety, depending on your situation in life. Plus, adding thirty minutes round-trip to a daily commute, over a lifetime, is a lot of lost time with the family, sleeping, etc. Hours a week! We build transit systems in the hope of enhancing everybody's quality of life so it all seems reasonable to me. But maybe it's also something that transit types have come to a consensus on as a good number.
― 'they pelted us with rocks and garbage' (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 15:20 (seven years ago) link
3rs Street & 7th Ave in Park Slope is in a "desert."
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 15:23 (seven years ago) link
15 minutes seems forever during a heat wave
― 龜, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
NEW YORK - The MTA is reporting systemwide subway delays in Manhattan due to power issues.
Spokesman Kevin Ortiz says the electrical problems started around 1 p.m. Wednesday at the system’s rail control center. Backup power was being used.
Ortiz said there were no reports of stranded passengers. He says the trains were moving, but with delays.
WCBS Newsradio 880 reported around 2 p.m. that electricity was back on at the control center but residual delays continued.
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 20:10 (seven years ago) link
NYC Transit on the 1 2 3 4 5 6 has resumed with residual delays due to earlier signal problems.We apologize for any inconvenience. Monitor Service Status on this page or follow @NYCTSubway for the latest updates.
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/7U6B6Lf.jpg
― 龜, Sunday, 17 July 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/2016/07/22/one_poop_train_uniting_all.php
i don't get this 'critique' at all
― 龜, Friday, 22 July 2016 14:34 (seven years ago) link
That's not how smells work
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 22 July 2016 14:35 (seven years ago) link
Although that is a classically New York bit of complaining while lacking basic understanding about facts of the physical world.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 22 July 2016 14:36 (seven years ago) link
some new yorkers really do think the 20th century was as good as it got for industrial design and mass transit huh?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 22 July 2016 16:35 (seven years ago) link
Yes
― chinavision!, Friday, 22 July 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
Combined with a New York transit exceptionalism that Second Avenue Sagas often points out... where whatever idea gets proposed, no matter how many other systems have it, it'll never work in New York, usually because the population here is comprised largely of destructive maniacs who will smash anything useful to pieces with chains and crowbars, and then become homeless and go to sleep (heaven forfend). No other city on the planet has any similar constellation of problems.
― we're gonna live in spatula city (Doctor Casino), Friday, 22 July 2016 17:16 (seven years ago) link
We must not let them sleep. Dear god no.
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Friday, 22 July 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
why does it take 7 hours to get to gowanus from union square
― Treeship, Friday, 22 July 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link
i sorta wish i had a car tbh
― Treeship, Friday, 22 July 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
booming post doctor
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 22 July 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
At the moment I am wishing there was a bus running down the west side hway to gwich village
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Friday, 22 July 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
I'm sure I've complained about it before ITT, but it's still galling how hard it is to get anywhere other than Midtown Manhattan or the handful of Queens neighborhoods on my subway line from where I live, especially to Brooklyn neighborhoods that are like 10 mins drive away.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 22 July 2016 19:55 (seven years ago) link
yeah and going into the city just to change trains and head right back out is very draining somehow
― adam, Friday, 22 July 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link