Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/nyregion/03bus.html?_r=2

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/nyregion/06sadik-khan.html?_r=1&hp

strange hit job from the times / don't vote for weiner

I would never vote for SchumerMiniMe Weiner, and I really don't like pedestrian tourist plazas on Broadway

sent the transportation commissioner the following email:

Dear JSK -- This story in the Times is bullshit. Please carry on with your dictatorial yet awesome plans. And fuck Anthony Weiner.

apparently nyc.gov does not have profanity filters

tourism is pretty amazing tbh, people from around the world want to come to your city and throw their money at it. it creates lots of jobs that can't be outsourced. the downside is so small "lol...tourists are annoying! they don't even live here!"

morbs, you don't drive, you don't take taxis - how does shutting down broadway affect someone like you negatively beyond 'too many tourists'? I feel like you associate the tourism boom/urban improvements w/ gentrification and the unaffordable cost of living, and I mean there's a certain correlation in that there is strong demand for visiting/living in 'nice places' and making nyc a nicer place to live in will continue to increase that demand and the cost. that is not a good reason to want to make nyc a worse place to live in or return to grungy/dangerous nyc. the city getting safer and more walkable isn't a problem, the problem is that we're not expanding the city fast enough to meet the demand.

at the botttom of this there's the weirdo american conservativism that has a knee-jerk reaction to *any* change.

not too invested in it, i avoid midtown whenever i can, but when i have to it's HELL ON EARTH

look I don't spend my weekends hanging out in midtown either, but I still don't want to get hit by a taxi on my way to work.

anyway bloomy comes off v. differently here than in the article:

http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/03/04/bloomberg-on-his-transpo-commissioner-keep-coming-up-with-new-ideas/

what a shitty article

any article that uses the formulation "some say" should be banned from the new york times

i wonder who is trying to take her out?

well not to be all conspiracy-theorist but schumer recently came out against the PPW lanes almost definitely due to pressure from his wife (who used have JSK's job)

i dont think it makes you a conspiracy theorist to think that article is just weed-carrying for some faction of the political class

Schumer lives on PPW btw

he'd also towed a different line until recently:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-charles-e-schumer/exploring-new-york-by-bik_b_218468.html

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/we_janette_6ZhwHlxPxnIZzli8wjNrTM

ugh

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/03/22/2011-03-22_mta_board_members_chew_over_banning_food_and_drink_cite_track_fires_rats_garbage.html

eating on the subway c/d

it's one of those things that I do but also think should be made illegal

isnt it already illegal? i feel like i know people who have been ticketed for eating on the subway

no it's legal. in a lot of ways eating *on the train* causes less harm than eating in the station. easier to clean a car than to get your mcdonalds cup out of the subway tracks.

dc metro suckkkks but the one nice thing is no food wrappers or bottles rattling around.

the other day I saw some woman tuck her trash in the crack under the train as she was getting on. the trash cans were SO CLOSE to her, she just wanted to be an asshole.

if only ppl weren't such savages about it xp

http://culture.wnyc.org/blogs/gallerina/2011/mar/28/notes-from-underground/

the other day I saw some woman tuck her trash in the crack under the train as she was getting on. the trash cans were SO CLOSE to her, she just wanted to be an asshole.

Dear god, I saw a woman do exactly this last week. I hovered on the verge of saying something but she and her bf were both HUGE and v much telegraphing do-not-give-a-fuck-will-hurt-you.

same people get loud and bitchy when there are delays cause of shit like track fires

http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/markets/newsfeeditem.aspx?id=138501958189789

(locked wsj article)

Was on loooong Q train ride Sunday night with a drunk Russian motherfucker who kept harassing a girl sitting across from him. Why she let him get that bad or didn't just move, I don't know. He sang her songs and offered to pay her money to be his girlfriend all the way from 14th St to Midwood, telling her how sexy she was and how he was ready to get married. Really, really loudly. Then when she got off, he tried it on me for a second, and then switched to a woman next to him, who ALSO didn't get up or object, idgi.

Guy was like mid or late 40s and the girl he was hitting on was a tiny young thing. Gross.

Did she just giggle and ignore it or something? What did you do?

I told him to be quiet for another two stops, which just made him complain to everyone else on the train that I wasn't very nice.

There was a total bro on the train who tried to deflect the guy's attention to himself and was borderline heroic about it without introducing any addl conflict. I don't have that kind of toleration, I was too fed up/mad at the older guy's rudeness and his assumption of control over all of our train rides and the discomfort levels of women in public. He's a big man, I guess, because no one will stop him from forcing his attentions on girls who are traveling alone at night. Even if it pretends to be "friendly" interest, it's not. It's controlling.

http://feeds.gothamistllc.com/click.phdo?i=e2ee11c3e7236932ebd38e0f6dabce86

http://gawker.com/5800433/berserk-naked-racist-wig+out-marks-another-day-on-the-nyc-subways

http://m.nypost.com/p/news/local/mike_cab_boost_to_no_man_land_kuqka1bpbY2Vg9fjvtKioO

6000 enough? too much? I guess it's hard to
to measure the demand at this point. also matters how strict the livery crackdown will be.

so we were in the corner seats today (6 train in the bronx) and watched two dudes get between the moving cars and stay there for like 10 minutes, smoking.

gf kept expecting them to die, I was maybe rooting for them to just get a little hurt

Oh yeah I've seen that exact thing, too. It's nutty.

uh

http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/06/08/advocates-ethical-standards-demand-zero-tolerance-for-traffic-deaths/

http://www.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/CityFatalityComparisonGraph.jpg

speaking english has a pretty high correlation w/ poorly planned, dangerous roads

- spent at least an hour waiting for the east river ferry. I guess a lot of people decided this was a good day for a free boat trip. apparently it's 'okay' on weekdays.

- in other 'surviving transit news' on our way home, saw (a block from our house) the aftermath of an accident where an old lady in an SUV hit a woman who had a baby stroller. baby seemed fine, woman was bloody and could only move her head.

old lady was just sitting in her SUV looking bored. this city's really got the most callous drivers in america.

http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/07/19/curb-jumping-motorist-severs-leg-of-pedestrian-in-midtown/

I go to that subway.

The G running normally thru Pk Slope? MTA site makes it look like work was cancelled.

that's what it looks like, not sure I'd risk it if it could be avoided tho

I didn't bump this thread w/ the jay walder news cause I bump this thread too often. important new tho.

using 'tho' too often tho

http://www.panynj.gov/press-room/press-item.cfm?headLine_id=1401

bummer for PATH riders

tho tolls going up always good, obv

Trying to go from one part of "south Brooklyn" to another on a weeknight after 11:

A JOKE

well the service isn't really set up for that particular trip