Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

that app isn't really well suited for the nyc taxi, uhh, ecology I guess. that's what livery cabs are for.

or nyc taxi ecology isn't really well suited for 2012

fuck uber

not for really any other reason than i hate tech people

I hate tech people but not as much as I hate the nyc taxi industry

uber seems inherently dislikeable

I don't have any particular affinity for uber itself but there is really no good reason why we shouldn't be able to easily hail cars w/ a smartphone esp in the outer boroughs and its pretty obv that the medallion holding companies will be fighting this one to the death.

fuckin' shitfuckers

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/transit-shutdown-possible-as-sandy-bears-down-on-city/

I BETTER NOT HAFTA CAB BACK FROM SEEING NIXON HOME MOVIES AT MOMA, I'M SAYIN'

oh no u fuckin don't

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/m-t-a-chief-announces-storm-plan-for-subways-buses-and-commuter-trains/?hp

ergh j was planning on taking the 7:07 metro north to new haven

not official yet

FUCK YOU, ANDY

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered New York City's transit service to suspend bus, subway, and commuter rail service in advance of the massive storm expected to hit the eastern third of the United States.

Cuomo says the system will be suspended starting at 7 p.m. Sunday.

3 day weekend I guess. Is this storm really gonna be that bad?

considering i am not buying any provisions, yes, this one will be very bad. this time last year, hurricane irene turned me into a survivalist sucker...

how long do these outages last, normally?

xp dude there's going to be a massive storm, what do you expect?

FUCK YOU, SANDY

fixed

So I get off work on Monday? How much time do they need to restore service? This is starting to appear serious. I'm going to buy some coffee beans.

Things I won't be able to do thanks to the subway shutdown: buy white knee socks for Halloween at the sock man and attend an old-timey spooky live radio performance in long island city. If I get off work tomorrow, that's a fair trade off.

how long do these outages last, normally?

― 乒乓, Sunday, October 28, 2012 11:02 AM (43 minutes ago)

could be a week or longer depending on where you are

I work in the Starrett-Lehigh building in westernmost Chelsea. They just called off work tomorrow. Yay.

I have tickets to see Blue Oyster Cult tonight in times square though. NOOOOOOOO

Specifically, New York City's infrastructure may take an unprecedented hit. The subway narrowly escaped flooding during Irene, and Sandy (for all the reasons above) is expected to be worse. So... 

"According to the latest storm surge forecast for NYC from NHC, Sandy's storm surge is expected to be several feet higher than Irene's. If the peak surge arrives near Monday evening's high tide at 9 pm EDT, a portion of New York City's subway system could flood, resulting in billions of dollars in damage," Masters concluded. "I give a 50% chance that Sandy's storm surge will end up flooding a portion of the New York City subway system."

http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/why-sandy-has-meteorologists-scared-in-4-images/264198/

There were no "advance shutdowns" in the first 100+ years of the NYC subway.

#fearoflitigation #pussies

I have no idea how bad it's gonna be, but if they had shut it down at midnight, MomA would not have had to cancel Nixon Super-8 Movies.

the shutdown begins at 7 but trains are actually running til 3.

it has less to do w/ litigation and more to do w/ the fact that cautionary measures might be the difference between the system down for a day and certain lines being down for weeks. also it takes a long time to shut it down, hours.

I am healthily skeptical of the probabilities.

Anyhoo, I was to start another cycle of chemo at 2pm tomw, so will depend if the center and the car services are running.

where'd u hear the 3am thing?

secondavenuesagas twitter feed

I feel more skeptical this time than last time for sure. but I think it's easy to discount the fact that irene actually ended up being a super powerful hurricane that knocked out power for half of ct and it was very close to doing serious damage to nyc. it just did it to places we don't care about instead.

they're calling for less rain but more storm surge than irene iirc, and the surge is what has the mta worried

irene also did serious damage in parts of NJ.

Any storm does serious damage to NJ.

so this surge is related to the full moon-tidal factor as well as wind, eh.

Will the Subway Be Closed on Tuesday?

It’s looking pretty likely. Joseph J. Lhota, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said Sunday morning that the authority hoped to restore service by Wednesday. “I do think Monday and Tuesday are going to be difficult days,” he said.

when the MTA shuts down, how do MTA employees go home?

Iirc they drive back to their homes in the far reaches of Queens and Sheepshead Bay.

like a lot of the nyc blue collar class a lot of them have cars parked at the end of a line, some of them don't and might be in a weird situation, some of them prob scheduled their way out.

xp yup basically

that reminds me of my question about who picks up the poop from seeing eye dogs

they are trained to eat their own poop

the mta employees?

no that is beyond their capabilities

good union contracts = you dont have to eat your own poop

just heard a train pass by on the manhattan bridge #cuomolied

bloomie sez no chance transit coming back tuesday

Based on what I've heard on WNYC in the last hour, I think the trains will be patchy to nonexistent through Friday at least.

yeah lhota says trains 'could' be out for a week but at this point they don't know the extent of the damage

the century old 7 train tunnel always has problems w/ water so I am not holding out much hope

God, I have no idea what I or anyone I know is going to do if we're expected to be at work but the trains aren't running, aside from hope our bosses are feeling nice.

Really, a week-long vacation? What about Halloween? What about the children?

best thing about it, cancelling T or T