Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

I didn't know morbz started threads...

he hasn't been in the Queens thread since NYC went hurricane-apeshit, though.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6210/6086067149_5b269e882c_z.jpg

that is like those photos by the la photographer dude who photoshopped out all the cars

Have to admit that I am enjoying these Vanilla SkyAbre los ojos photos of famously crowded famous places in NYC.

haha I wonder if some indie filmmaker took advantage of it

ps something to be bitter about if you wanna be bitter: 2ndavesags: 'As of earlier today, MTA said folks with unlimited ride MetroCards will not get bonus days because of system shutdown.'

WAIT FOR THE C.H.U.D.s

Also reminds me of a sequence in ILB favorite What Mad Universe, by Fredric Brown.

My current unlimited card expires today, it just so happens *nonchalantly examines manicure*

Buses in New York City are expected to be the first form of mass transit that will be restored, but Mr. Walder had no timeline for their return to service. The lack of subway service makes it difficult for drivers to travel to depots to begin operating the buses.

Why don't they just take a bus there

UPDATE: As of 4:30 p.m. the MTA will begin restoring limited bus service in New York City. Full route-by-route details about service restorations will be provided in the Service Status Box at left when available. Restoration will begin in Manhattan and the Bronx, followed by Queens and Brooklyn. Conditions in Staten Island continue to prevent restoration of service at this time. No fares will be charged for service provided today.

http://mta.info/

Noooo, I don't want to go to work tomorrow. Bloomie's advice: take a cab or walk. Always with his finger on the pulse vis a vis the travails of the common New Yorker.

Hahahoohooohoooahahah yeah right.

Why are you hectoring him for reasonable statements? /iatee

Buses running on Coney Island Ave.

VPlain, there is a Mets doubleheader tomw at 4:10, but I don't know if I can get there. (Libraries closed?)

I'm very much hoping the libraries are closed, but I guess they're not gonna announce anything until tomorrow morning.

As much as I'd love to root for the Mets, a free tomorrow would be a windfall in terms of packing.

Almost literally?

Lol. Once the city is up and running again, we need to get drinks.

With limited exceptions, service will resume across the subway system at 6:00 a.m. Monday morning. Service will be less frequent than normal, and customers should expect longer waits and more crowded trains. Frequency of service will improve over the course of the day. Specifically:

•3 trains will operate between 137th Street/City College and New Lots Avenue; Substitute bus service will be provided between Harlem 148th Street and 135th Street connecting with the 2 train.
•C trains suspended; A trains will make all local stops from 207th St. to Lefferts Blvd.​
•No service in the Rockaways. (Rockaway Blvd. to Far Rockaway and Rockaway Park)
•6 trains runs local in the Bronx
•7 trains run local
•S Franklin Avenue Shuttle (FAS) Suspended
•N trains terminate at Kings Highway. Shuttle bus service between Kings Highway and Stillwell Terminal.

The Staten Island Railway will resume normal service at midnight tonight.

Fuck.

cosign

what a DELIGHTFUL weekend.

metro north still fucked so I don't have to go to work! woohoo

sorta hope it's not fucked tuesday!

I bet this 'limited' service is gonna be a clusterfuck. But gotta make the donuts!

I don't have to be at work until 12:30, but I would greatly prefer not to go in at all.

thank god the crucial Staten Island Railway will be back soon

looks like the subway is running fine? anyone have any problems?

Nope. Worked great for me this morning

I had to wait 8 minutes for the 7 which resulted in me being 5 minutes late for work. Most unbeneficial natural disaster ever.

I assumed the hamstrung A train would be such a great aggravation that I was better off riding my bike, so I did.

C was running fine when i took it this afternoon!

NJ transit on the other hand

totally PERFECT! after all, it was time to deliver the wage slaves to their masters. If this had happened Labor Day weekend, things would've been up Tuesday.

Shutting the city down at NOON on Saturday was balls.

when would you have suggested shutting it down?

After I saw Mysteries of Lisbon.

If it hadn't shut down the water would have carried you to Lisbon.

morns can't nice things just be nice sometimes?

I mean morbs

NJ transit on the other hand

Tracks washed out

This morning's commute saw a hipster with big glasses along with sticky-uppy hair and a dude in John Coltrane shirt. Thought I was trapped in some ILX dreamscape.

to be fair to NJT they got hit way worse than the MTA did

beginning of god's plan to wipe out the suburbs

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/09/02/nyregion/JERVIS/JERVIS-articleLarge.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/nyregion/port-jervis-train-line-will-take-months-to-repair.html?ref=nyregion

our new public transit system:

http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/09/14/nyc-chooses-alta-to-operate-bike-share-system-with-10000-bikes/

Gotta love those water-main breaks for the Monday PM rush

it was an 100 year old year old tube