Dear D train: You suck. Thanks for stalling out this evening, messing up my carefully timed commute to my train home.
On the bright side, fuck going to the gym for a few days, I ran like crazy and made it from the uptown CE platform in Penn to my train with like 30 seconds to spare. Weaving through that crowd is like playing hockey.
― lyra, Thursday, 22 January 2009 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought this revive was gonna be about this article
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 January 2009 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Hahaha Lyra I think the joke was "What Dunkin Donuts Looks Like."
W4 seems like a secret nexus of all things, really. I am going to be a jerk and start referring to it as "downtown's own Columbus Circle."
― nabisco, Thursday, 22 January 2009 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link
P.S. It's true, there is no place that "beer-flavored Doritos" sounds like a worse idea than on the freaking subway
― nabisco, Thursday, 22 January 2009 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Hahaha Lyra I think the joke was "What Dunkin Donuts Looks Like."I'm starting to hear an Afghan Whigs song with these lyrics. Although I can't reallly hear exactly what they would be, maybe nabisco will write them, like he did for "BLT" on The logic of the setlist
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 January 2009 23:31 (fifteen years ago) link
With that title, I mean.
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 January 2009 23:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i'll warn youif hungryi'll eat the weight of ten strong men
tell you a secretthey shared a donut once or twiceshe loved himhe loved foodwent back for seconds a couple of times
f train breaks down every nightthis must be what dunkin donuts looks like
― mookieproof, Friday, 23 January 2009 04:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Thr F was monstrous yesterday morning
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 January 2009 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Took nearly 2 hours to get from Greenpoint to Union Square. If I were driving I'd be near Albany by now. and this is -before- the service cuts?
― burt_stanton, Friday, 23 January 2009 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
it is lol to me that when waiting @ the 3rd ave. L you can smell dunkin donuts wafting down to the platform.
― tehresa, Friday, 23 January 2009 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
third ave L is a travesty and sure sign of the laziness of the american. fuckers can't walk to either union square or first ave? get real.
― ian, Friday, 23 January 2009 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
right? most useless stop ever.
― tehresa, Friday, 23 January 2009 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
literally 1 block from the easternmost exit @ union square!
― tehresa, Friday, 23 January 2009 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
need Ave B stop
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 January 2009 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
:(
xp
― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Friday, 23 January 2009 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
or shift 1st ave to a and then put a line that goes all the way down to essex/delancey f/jmz
― tehresa, Friday, 23 January 2009 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link
lol, you don't think we're getting any new stops in our lifetimes w/ this alleged state budget crisis? I'll be amazed if we see that 2nd Ave subway before 2030.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 January 2009 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't think tza had any notion that was actually possible morbz don't worry.
― ian, Friday, 23 January 2009 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
lol!
― tehresa, Friday, 23 January 2009 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
or let's just all meet on 14th St after work, w/ shovels.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 January 2009 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
wait til spring when the ground has thawed.</contractor>
― ian, Friday, 23 January 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
or a time machine! we could supervise the original construction.
Do you know when the G was called the GG, it REGULARLY ran from Coney thru Wburg to Queens?!
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 January 2009 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Was that back when the R was called the RR?
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 January 2009 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link
― tehresa, Friday, January 23, 2009 10:08 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^^ that would be the 28th st. 1/9
― JtM Is Ruled By A Black Man (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 23 January 2009 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link
And the RR went to Astoria, while the N went the other wayinto Queens? There were some other double letters too- the C or the A maybe.
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 January 2009 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
actually, I'm wrong. But the GG was extended to Church Ave for rush hours (still wd be helpful).
http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1972.jpg
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 January 2009 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks, that brought me back, way back.
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 January 2009 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ that would be the 28th st. 1/9Yeah, pretty much. I also love the automated sign over the police desk in Penn Station that points people to the 1,2,3,9. It's a digital sign and they can't update in a few years?
I'm glad it's finally thawing a bit outside. The sign at Houston and Lafayette with the temperature on it has been taunting me in the morning all week with like 12F on it.
― lyra, Friday, 23 January 2009 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
― dmr, Friday, 23 January 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I use that 28th St stop for work.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 January 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha the "9"
― nabisco, Friday, 23 January 2009 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link
mourn you til I join you, 9paws
Oh wow, look at that. I used to visit my brother in Brooklyn yeaaaaaaaaaaars ago and I always wondered what the hell that was.
― burt_stanton, Friday, 23 January 2009 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
http://masstransiscope.wordpress.com/
― dmr, Friday, 23 January 2009 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's when I used to go out to Boro Park all the time. What a weird neighborhood
― burt_stanton, Friday, 23 January 2009 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha the "9"― nabisco, Friday, January 23, 2009 3:18 PM (13 minutes ago) mourn you til I join you, 9paws― nabisco, Friday, January 23, 2009 3:18 PM (13 minutes ago)
― nabisco, Friday, January 23, 2009 3:18 PM (13 minutes ago)
I had forgotten about the "K" until I started investigating the AA and CC (not to mention the EE).
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 January 2009 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link
G is running to my house on f line again this weekend, wonder what I'll do...
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 30 January 2009 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link
NYC Subway twitter:http://twitter.com/nyc_mta
Not sure where the get the info from, although it might be from official MTA alerts originally.
― lyra, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 00:05 (fifteen years ago) link
At least they finally got the robot announcers to stop announcing the 9 train. That took them a while.
― burt_stanton, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 00:08 (fifteen years ago) link
More love for the W4th subway station- there was someone playing a huge upright bass on the uptown ACE platform this evening. I was listening waiting for my train, he was actually pretty good. And just to make this New York, about three firefighters in full gear (oxyen tanks, carrying axes, everything) came up from the lower level platform & stood near the stairs and listened for a bit as well. And then my train came. The end.
― lyra, Friday, 20 February 2009 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Friend has a theory that busking has improved dramatically because all the musicians from the closed Broadway shows are doing it.
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 February 2009 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link
so F was running every 20 mins all morning?
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 March 2009 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
i got a snowcaked D, so i can vouch for the absence of an F for like five minutes.
― schlump, Monday, 2 March 2009 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
How are the buses if anyone knows?
― burt_stanton, Monday, 2 March 2009 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
terrorist-proof
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 March 2009 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I waited about 2 minutes for a Queens bound F train, so I guess I got lucky.
― Virginia Plain, Monday, 2 March 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
MTA claims "minor" bus delays.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 March 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf is this shuttle btw jay and utica bs
― homie bhabha (max), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Dear Rider –
On March 25th, the MTA will be forced to enact a "doomsday budget" calling for 23% higher fares and existing tolls, as well as devastating service cuts!
We're asking for your help. Please call the key legislators listed below and tell them:
* You rely on transit and cannot afford a 23% fare hike – or 23% higher tolls at existing facilities; * You are counting on them to stand up for riders; and * The fairest way to fund transit is with all sectors of the economy fairly contributing to the solution, including riders, drivers and businesses.
Please call these key state legislators. Please be sure to leave your name and tell them what borough you live in.
If you live in the Bronx please call Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr. at (718) 991-3161If you live in Brooklyn please call Senator Carl Kruger at (718) 743-8610.If you live in Queens please call Senator Frank Padavan at (718) 343-0255.If you live in Staten Island please call Senator Andrew Lanza at (718) 984-4073.If you live in Manhattan, please call any of the above.
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― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link