Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

yeah it's a pretty stupid idea but it has to be put in the context of 'NYC just trying to get those billions of fed $ that NJ just threw away'. at this point a C+ transit project that has funding is better than an A+ one that doesn't. but anyway, it doesn't look like it's much more than a pipe dream at this time.

wait what fed $ did we just throw away?

Gov Chrischrischristie pulled the plug on a new NY-NJ rail tunnel

omg I can't even begin deal with what a fucking douchebag he is

http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/11/12/quotes-chris-christies-wife-told-him-to-axe-hudson-tunnel/

that stupid woman earned her place in history

ed koch bridge

I never knew the 59th Street was a racist, closet-case reactionary bridge.

but no trains run over it surely?

grisly F/G delays this morning

http://gothamist.com/2010/12/13/police_investigating_another_train.php

I was at Union Station the other night when this happened:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/train_suffering_39bd6X65KyYQ50xtFobNGJ

I didn't actually see it, but friends of mine who had been at the same event and left minutes later than us were there -- one of my friends tried to pull the guy up when he fell but he was completely stuck and pulling only would make it worse.

I always wonder how much it would cost to set up a plexiglass wall w/ automatic doors. they have it on one line in paris, but that's the futuristic computer-driven line...so it's easy for the train to line up perfectly w/ the doors.

obv it would be unfeasible system-wide, esp w/ the elevated trains, but maybe someone could think up a way to do it for cheap. it's just walls and doors ffs. but then again, nyc subway is getting countdown clocks 20 years after the rest of the world, so this would be 2120 technology regardless.

so wot's running? the 2/3 and...?

NY1:

...Service has been restored on one A train that was stalled in Queens since 1 a.m.

New York City Transit spokesman Charles Seaton says that snow drifts and
ice on the third rail stalled trains at the Broad Channel and Aqueduct stops in Queens, north and south of JFK Airport.

NY1 art director Christopher Mullen was among those stranded and said a rescue train arrived shortly after 8 a.m. and got the train moving. He, and about a dozen others were without food, water or heat throughout the night.

:O

hence, fare increase on Thursday.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/215666555.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&Expires=1293510299&Signature=dr2MnpN74EkrDq%2FnAFOWyQ%2FD1Mw%3D

O_O

has anyone taken a ride this morning? F train listed with "delays," Q not running at all.

just took the A down to 59th and then back up to 181st. ran okay

oh, Manhattan doesn't count!

just took the A down to 59th and then back up to 181st. ran okay

Like, just for shits and giggles??

What's that one station up in the 100's that's styled like it was hit by an earthquake or something? And there are these weird black
bench seats on the platform

Like, just for shits and giggles??

Uh, no.

Oh, I read that as, like, "I just rode the subway down and back again; I love to ride the subway!"

the n was a pain in the ass for me today

Q seems to be back. Rode from Union Square to 7th Av in Brooklyn tonight with no problems.

2/3 has been solid throughout.

hence, fare increase on Thursday.

did they decide not to put in the limit on "unlimited" rides? can't find anything about that on the MTA site. if they did put that in on top of a $15 (!) hike for a monthly card that's fucked up.

no, the monthly remains unlimited.

thank jesus

I think a lot of people underestimate how much would change if their cards weren't unlimited (and also how cheap the subway is on a per-ride basis)

I'm trying to remember if a car-wide ad campaign has disgusted me as much as the current one for Aruba. "We are happy natives to serve Bwana!"

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/01/26/2011-01-26_congestion_pricing_no_longer_taking_detour.html

thank fucking god

i still remember a van ride along canal street - from the manhattan bridge to hudson street - that took 1hr and 15 minutes

haha "canal street" god i am so not a new yorker any more.

you picked a good time.

Damn you, Tracer Hand!

I know this subway thread but I just had mad beef with njtransit conductor. So heated right now! This fool trying to tell me he won't honor a buss pass when there is a goddamn cross transit ticketing in effect today. I was asking for only one extra stop btw

I took his number down and got on the phone with c/s and he got shook

tell him you'll get chris christie to chew him out on youtube

Um how do you argue that?

I wonder if it was te asshole w the gross mullet that always used to yell at me for bringing my bike on the train

Bikes on the subway make me see red. (I also believe they're banned during rush hour)

not technically banned during rush hour, but I think most people realize the futility

xp well yes, but I mean off-peak NJ Transit is not the same thing as subway

yeah, i remember, vaguely

snow day, of course. wonder if i can get to Film Forum on the F.

i have successfully ridden the F

good riddence!

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/01/31/2011-01-31_cuomo_may_cut_funding_to_transit_system_without_raising_fares_new_route_for_mta.html

this guy's gonna be great!