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― kings of leoncie (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 5 June 2011 11:31 (twelve years ago) link
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
― iatee, Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
- 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.
― iatee, Monday, 20 June 2011 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/07/19/curb-jumping-motorist-severs-leg-of-pedestrian-in-midtown/
I go to that subway.
― iatee, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
The G running normally thru Pk Slope? MTA site makes it look like work was cancelled.
― you call it trollin' i call it steamrollin' (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 23 July 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― iatee, Saturday, 23 July 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
using 'tho' too often tho
http://www.panynj.gov/press-room/press-item.cfm?headLine_id=1401
bummer for PATH riders
― iatee, Saturday, 6 August 2011 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
tho tolls going up always good, obv
― iatee, Saturday, 6 August 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
Trying to go from one part of "south Brooklyn" to another on a weeknight after 11:
A JOKE
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 04:41 (twelve years ago) link
well the service isn't really set up for that particular trip
― iatee, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 04:43 (twelve years ago) link
NO? Like the G EVER running its entire route all evening?????
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― iatee, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 04:51 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 11:31 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― iatee, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― iatee, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 12:30 (twelve years ago) link
what the fuck have they been fixing on the G line for the last 5 years?
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― iatee, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
been taking two g trains, switching at bedford-nostrand, several times per week for the last 3-4 months. weeknights, weekend days too.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
this is why brooklyn needs this: http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/05/07/streetcars-for-brooklyn-a-new-life/
― iatee, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
What really pisses me off is when they don't even mention the truncation of the line til the last stop.
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.straphangers.org/statesub11/
congrats j/z
― iatee, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not sure I buy '70% of passengers on the 7 get seats at most crowded point during rush hour'.
― iatee, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
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, Friday, 26 August 2011 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
iatee, present!
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― iatee, Friday, 26 August 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
just wait.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
lulz
― Mordy, Friday, 26 August 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
WAIT FOR THE RATS
― mark s, Friday, 26 August 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
The mayor said he expected the transit system would be shut down sometime Saturday afternoon. He said it was unlikely buses, subways and trains would be available again until Monday or later.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
good grief. i'll be in NYC this weekend -- but now i'm wondering if it's such a good idea
― geeta, Friday, 26 August 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
haha mark s have you seen this?!?!?
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/08/25/2011-08-25_giant_rat_killed_by_pitchfork_in_marcy_houses_is_believed_to_be_.html
― geeta, Friday, 26 August 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
really though, i am not in ny atm & imagining all of this relies on using a huge bank of images culled from disaster movies & demolition manesque dystopian futures & sci-fi mutant rats etc etc. the way it unfolds in my imagination is just terrifying. canal st under 6 feet of water is crazy to me.
― (Chris Isaak Cover) (schlump), Friday, 26 August 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
fucking ay man, this has me hella pnoid nowthey shut down the parks, no shows.
― dozens, maybe even hundreds, of vagina related screen names (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 August 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
if the 40mph winds aren't starting til early Sunday, this is classic Cover Your Ass excess.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
mets pretty much have to cancel saturday's game without any transit
― mookieproof, Friday, 26 August 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah they're banging the drum so hard that my wife's sister (who lives right on the wburg waterfront) wants to come stay with us TONIGHT. It might not even be RAINING tonight!
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Friday, 26 August 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/nyregion/mass-transit-shutdown-for-irene-is-complex-job.html
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
cry me a river
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 09:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/nyregion/new-yorkers-warned-of-possible-electrical-shutdown.html
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said that mass transit was “unlikely to be back” in service on Monday. The mayor also said that electricity could be knocked out in Lower Manhattan if Consolidated Edison to shut off the power pre-empt the problems that flooding could cause for its cables.
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ morbz taking over every single NYC thread to complain
― dayo, Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
tbf he started this one to complain
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
plus ça change ...
― Murdered plants communicate with a bowl of shrimps in another room! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't know morbz started threads...
― dayo, Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
he hasn't been in the Queens thread since NYC went hurricane-apeshit, though.
― Murdered plants communicate with a bowl of shrimps in another room! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6210/6086067149_5b269e882c_z.jpg
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
that is like those photos by the la photographer dude who photoshopped out all the cars
― dayo, Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
Have to admit that I am enjoying these Vanilla SkyAbre los ojos photos of famously crowded famous places in NYC.
― Don't ask for the steening, ask for the HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
haha I wonder if some indie filmmaker took advantage of it
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:45 (twelve years ago) link