Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

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

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

+1 for avoiding morbs-is-old joke
-1 for 'an 100'

no you see I was saying it w/ a british accent

-2

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/ahead-of-its-time-an-icon-goes-digital/

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date Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:42 PM
subject MANH, A, B. C. D. 1 train, Black Eyed Peas Concert

All persons attending the Black Eyed Peas concert in Central Park are to detrain at the 59th Street-Columbus Circle Station for entry to the concert.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/03/soon-l-will-mean-less-crowded-subway-officials-say/

But the report (see below) also offers an inadvertent manual for weary riders trying to beat the crowds. From 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays, for instance, the Brooklyn-bound L sometimes carries up to 35 percent more passengers than the prescribed maximum load. The lesson: midafternoon barbecues in Williamsburg are not recommended.

The good news for riders is that the sardinelike conditions may soon be coming to an end: subway officials have pledged to run more L trains on the weekends, starting in the summer of 2012, according to State Senator Daniel L. Squadron, a Democrat representing parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan whose office requested the study.

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lol, a single extra weekday morning L train between 9 and 9:30 ain't gonna do shit.

I guess they're just at capacity for the 8-9am hour and can't add more trains? Or what?

Maybe the best solution is to expand ferry service.

OTOH, it would not be hard to increase weekend L service from ZERO

most of the time that they're shutting down the l like that it's so they can install the new tech that will allow increased capacity.

and yes hurting I believe it's basically at capacity atm. ferry service is mostly a joke as far as commuting goes. fun tho.

I was just down by those new condos/rentals on the waterfront (where Brooklyn Flea is now) and I saw they were running the ferries pretty rapidly. I was thinking what if they had like five of those docks on each side of the river and maybe included a subway transfer with your $4 fare -- at least some of the more well-heeled nu-Williamsburgers would probably take the option and relieve some of the pressure on the subways.

I.e. five docks on each side just for williamsburg. Obv there are other docks.

subway transfer would be a nice start but still those ferries are seasonal and not super cost effective for the amount of people they're moving

how many of those well-heeled burgers are gonna wait for a ferry outside for 15 minutes in the snow

Hmm, maybe a Williamsburg Bridge express bus then. Not that it would be very "express" in morning traffic, but as someone who does the Graham to Union Square ride every day I can't see how the fuck the L is going to accommodate the even more commmuters who may/may not move into all those bldgs around McCarren that aren't already full. Maybe some will find their way to the M.

the bigger solution is just to upzone around transit lines w/ capacity instead of around what neighborhoods are hot. not that there's a ton of room to build in Brooklyn regardless I guess.

also to build more subway lines

Not that I know the details of it, but I would guess this is partly a byproduct of having a weird city transit authority that is a creature of the state instead of the city, i.e. planning/zoning and transit are probably not as well coordinated? Really don't know though, it's a guess.

Yeah, more lines for sure. At least the area around the area/downtown has a shitton of subways so it actually makes some sense to have higher density there.

nah this kinda shit is poorly planned throughout the country. it's an america problem more than a ny problem.

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Mole People/"police investigation" code/why is the C train so old?? etc.
You can ignore the "protesters should just get jobs" part at the end though!

Anyone have any thoughts on what times are better on L morning commutes? It seems like leaving a little later (getting on the train @9am or after) helps, but i can't always leave that late. What's the earliest things get unbearably crowded?

maybe look at the city-wide commute time distribution for NYC and the l schedule. but beyond 'later is always better' i dunno what you'd find.

or just bike to work? I dunno I feel for you but there's no easy solution. how far are you from the g?

I tried to take the D from Borough Park to LES this morning. I got to the 50 St station but there were no Manhattan-bound trains running, so everyone had to take it two stops and transfer to the northbound train at 62 St. Except once everyone got off there the construction workers told us trains weren't stopping there either, so everyone got back on the next southbound, and I wasn't sure what to do so I just got off at 20 Ave and sure enough there's no trains to Manhattan here, either, and the person in the booth told me I had to just stay on the train until it got to Coney Island and looped around.

What the fuck is going on? Why am I sitting on a train platform in Bensonhurst instead of eating DUMPLINGS! at Vanessa's?

Rerouted trains are the norm at any time other than rush hours. Wage slaves gotta get to work, what else is New York for these days?