Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

ya I was gonna say people should all just get folding bikes or (soon) use bikeshare anyway

I want everything I own to fold into something smaller

Generally, ppl who bring a bike onto the A train at 9am are not worried about anyone else. This bespectacled young dbag didn't give a shit.

pretty common, but it wouldnt make sense in ny, they really slow things down

― iatee, Tuesday, August 7, 2012 11:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe we should stop letting wheelchair-ridden folks on the buses too

that is not really the same thing at all, is it

it's the same thing in that wheelchairs throw off bus schedules, it's not the same thing in that people don't choose to be in wheelchairs

i'm just being a jerk. sorry.

tonight it was a car that made a turn through the stop sign w/o stopping, so i am an equal-opportunity hater of assholes.

I, also, have opinions on cars

but basically you have to think of the system as a whole, in lots of other places w/ shitty transit options, having bike racks on buses is prob worth the cost to system-wide efficiency cause it makes it easier to live w/o a car and public transit doesn't have the same kinda scope. in a place w/ a very extensive public transit system that millions of people rely on, w/ crowded trains and buses and tight schedules, anything that takes up space or slows things down has an effect on a lot of people

I, also, have opinions on cars

boom

7 train delays again today. i swear the 7 train has had problems during evening rush hour quite a lot recently. hopefully it will resolve itself by 5...

whoops, unrealistic. for some reason i thought it was still 4:30.

7 train service "suspended"--might be a good day to call in sick if you're not already out and about. As for myself, I'm on a bus floating eastward on Roosevelt.

I made it to qbp just as they were shutting things down. but I think this will not be the news of the day.

was 20 min late to a job interview cuz of the J train : (

wow, I finally took the E to queens late nite the other night -- it's like bizarro E train! There are like 20 stops between my work and home instead of three!

yeah it doesn't make sense to have as much express service late at night, you gotta take the f instead

I think interviewers here are probably more forgiving of the lateness-due-to-train story d

do u have some sort of alert on this thread y/n

it's the only good thread on ilx

eh, it's no ORNALDO BLOOMPS FOR PRESIDETN

and i will take that as a y

well I have a bookmark and I mostly just pay attention to threads I've bookmarked

ne way a lot of nyc transit news this week, crazy courts threw out a. the payroll tax b. the outer borough taxi plan

irene claim too

I think interviewers here are probably more forgiving of the lateness-due-to-train story d

― iatee, Tuesday, August 28, 2012 8:55 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark

hopefully! I dropped in some info about the mythical 2 ave line, and also mentioned the factoid you told me about how the LED readouts cost $1 mil per station

you shoulda just told them you know me

do u wanna chill dis weekend j is prob gonna be here

goin back to philly for labor day wknd

boo

I was trying to plan a trip and thinking maybe a philly daytrip but she said she wants to stay in the city. would you possibly be free to hang out in philly if we were there for a day tho? that might convince her.

yeah def! lmk

see fb msg, I am going to preserve the sanctity of this thread and not talk about philly

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/nyregion/in-reversal-new-york-city-traffic-fatalities-rise.html

congrats everyone for the broadway-lafayette/bleecker street connection

I actually used that already

if only the 4/5 stopped there too

I used the Barclays Center subway entrance today. Fancy.

i want them to extend the 6 to fulton st

Yeah, no shit! Who cares about Brooklyn Bridge, no one goes there!!

well keep in mind that was the first station of the entire system and there is a nice little loop for the 6 train right now and extending it would cost like 5 billion dollars

i KNOW im just saying

have you guys ever done the secret city hall loop

you can guess my answer

they aren't even supposed to ask you to get off if you just say 'no I just wanna go uptown'

ive never been asked to get off! i dont know that they even bother doing a sweep anymore

Bloomberg goes to Brooklyn Bridge

Yeah, no shit! Who cares about Brooklyn Bridge, no one goes there!!

― purveyor of generations (in orbit), Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:54 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I assume this is ironical (city hall, courthouses, etc.)

I fell asleep on the 6 once and didn't know about the loop -- I got all panicked when I woke up in the tunnel and hit the call box, but they were just like "it's cool, stay on the train until we come around"

I hadn't mentioned this yet, but last Friday I was on the front of the first car on a train that struck and killed a person in Brooklyn. It was very freaky and bizarre. And no, I didn't see a thing (but felt and heard it), and made certain not to turn my head when exiting. The train operator was SHAKEN and in a bit of a panic.
On the mezzanine, I heard another train coming in the other direction and ran down with my friend and hopped on, so that we were strangely at our intended destination as planned that evening, and so the fatality seems sort of dreamlike. Like, I woke up the next day after dreaming about it all night, and it took a little convincing myself that it actually happened.
Not to be a downer.
The 6 train loop rules.

wow that's crazy. was it an accident or a suicide?

Both ends of my E-train commute now have extremely narrow walkways on the platform (due in part to elevator rehab, I think), and I'm always afraid I'm either going to trip, get pushed or accidentally push someone else onto the platform, but I keep doing the walk to be that much closer to my exit when I get off.

Seems like it was an accident. The only news story I found about it was this:
http://www.news12.com/articleDetail.jsp?articleId=334484&position=1&news_type=news#fb_jump

I think there was another incident at Broadway Junction later that same night.