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
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.'
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
WAIT FOR THE C.H.U.D.s
― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
Also reminds me of a sequence in ILB favorite What Mad Universe, by Fredric Brown.
― Don't ask for the steening, ask for the HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
My current unlimited card expires today, it just so happens *nonchalantly examines manicure*
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 27 August 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 August 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
Why don't they just take a bus there
― Cass McCars (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 28 August 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 August 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Virginia Plain, Sunday, 28 August 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
Hahahoohooohoooahahah yeah right.
― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Sunday, 28 August 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
Why are you hectoring him for reasonable statements? /iatee
Buses running on Coney Island Ave.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 August 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
VPlain, there is a Mets doubleheader tomw at 4:10, but I don't know if I can get there. (Libraries closed?)
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 August 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Virginia Plain, Sunday, 28 August 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
Almost literally?
― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Sunday, 28 August 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
Lol. Once the city is up and running again, we need to get drinks.
― Virginia Plain, Sunday, 28 August 2011 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2011 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
Fuck.
― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Monday, 29 August 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
cosign
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
what a DELIGHTFUL weekend.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2011 01:36 (twelve years ago) link
metro north still fucked so I don't have to go to work! woohoo
― iatee, Monday, 29 August 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
sorta hope it's not fucked tuesday!
I bet this 'limited' service is gonna be a clusterfuck. But gotta make the donuts!
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
I don't have to be at work until 12:30, but I would greatly prefer not to go in at all.
― Virginia Plain, Monday, 29 August 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
thank god the crucial Staten Island Railway will be back soon
― buzza, Monday, 29 August 2011 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
looks like the subway is running fine? anyone have any problems?
― iatee, Monday, 29 August 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
Nope. Worked great for me this morning
― Don't ask for the steening, ask for the HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 August 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
I had to wait 8 minutes for the 7 which resulted in me being 5 minutes late for work. Most unbeneficial natural disaster ever.
― Virginia Plain, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
I assumed the hamstrung A train would be such a great aggravation that I was better off riding my bike, so I did.
― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
C was running fine when i took it this afternoon!
NJ transit on the other hand
― max, Monday, 29 August 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
when would you have suggested shutting it down?
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 August 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
After I saw Mysteries of Lisbon.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2011 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
If it hadn't shut down the water would have carried you to Lisbon.
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 August 2011 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
morns can't nice things just be nice sometimes?
― Cass McCars (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 06:27 (twelve years ago) link
I mean morbs
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
Tracks washed out
― Aerosol, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Hipster Shake Boogie (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
to be fair to NJT they got hit way worse than the MTA did
― max, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
beginning of god's plan to wipe out the suburbs
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
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
― iatee, Friday, 2 September 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
our new public transit system:
http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/09/14/nyc-chooses-alta-to-operate-bike-share-system-with-10000-bikes/
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
Gotta love those water-main breaks for the Monday PM rush
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
it was an 100 year old year old tube
― iatee, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
and funding for 'less than 100 year old' things doesn't exist because people like this are in charge: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/nyregion/governor-andrew-cuomo-eagerly-attends-an-auto-show.html
― iatee, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
+1 for avoiding morbs-is-old joke-1 for 'an 100'
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
no you see I was saying it w/ a british accent
― iatee, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
-2
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link