Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

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

NO? Like the G EVER running its entire route all evening?????

can't you take a bus? there are lots of buses and they are pretty frequent in this city. I don't know what trip in particular you are complaining about.

There are a lot of buses that run every 30 mins after 9, then stop at 12.

You don't expect much from NY, do you?

the B68 runs every 9 minutes on weekdays at 11 pm, B35 every 7 minutes, B16 every 20 minutes. in what other american cities could you expect to have so many bus routes running at that frequency late night on a weekday? that's downtown rush hour frequency somewhere else.

I'm not trying to troll you, really, I just don't think it's really that hard to get around this city if you know the schedules, stops and are sorta flexible. getting from park slope to kensington late at night might require a transfer or might be a bummer w/ service changes, but that's not a trip the system can be built around. how many people need it?

I mean, the service should be more frequent and reliable, it's true, but blame politicians / people for taking public transit for granted / constantly bitching about the MTA while not really paying attention when the state takes money away from it. but even in a world where it were better funded, there would sometimes be some late-night services changes, and your ideal bus route might not exist.

what the fuck have they been fixing on the G line for the last 5 years?

tbh I don't know if there's something particularly wrong w/ the crosstown line tracks. it's a priority thing on some level, g has the lowest ridership (by a good margin) so it's always the easiest the justify shutting down, either for work or for budgetary reasons. at the same time it serves a unique purpose and has no express tracks (which would allow more flexibility in the trackwork) so it's always gonna be extra unpleasant when it is shut down.

been taking two g trains, switching at bedford-nostrand, several times per week for the last 3-4 months. weeknights, weekend days too.

this is why brooklyn needs this: http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/05/07/streetcars-for-brooklyn-a-new-life/

What really pisses me off is when they don't even mention the truncation of the line til the last stop.

http://www.straphangers.org/statesub11/

congrats j/z

I'm not sure I buy '70% of passengers on the 7 get seats at most crowded point during rush hour'.

NYT has chairman of the MTA saying that it could take up to 8 hours to shut down the system. BULLSHITIACO! You shut it down instantly in the blizzard, pretty much, so what's the difference? There will be lolz if hundreds of thousands of oblivious shoppers are stranded in Manhattan at noon tomorrow.

Fuck the MTA up the ass with a slow G train.

they didn't shut the system down during the blizzard, the blizzard shut them down. if they're organized and prepared for this, there will be fewer problems a week from now.

8 hours in total doesn't seem that ridiculous if they're bringing every single train back to its yard (some of them are going to be going in the wrong direction when that decision is made).

I dunno why the narrative always had to be 'the MTA is out to screw me' - do you really want them running trains w/ flooded stations underground and potentially deadly winds above ground?

iatee, present!

I'm just confused as to how you can frame something like this as 'the MTA is out to get me'

this is pretty shitty, a large hurricane could cause serious damage to the system and being as cautious as possible is prob a good idea at this point. there are examples of the MTA being poorly run. this is not one.

just wait.

lulz