Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

it must be running on the e line?

Something doesn't make sense. Surely it was running through the F tunnel at the end of last week. So why should the F notification mention M/E train stops?

Oh, that notice is for the M train. M, F, B and D are grouped together as far as service changes.

argh argh argh, why are they closing those stations again? My commute was finally down to a reasonable 1.5 hrs.

ah ok wait, n/m, they were closed all along. But I assume they didn't mean to link those to the F, cuz they're not F stops.

today's map is claiming a lot of things. F and M are running in lower manhattan? Can anyone confirm this first-hand?

I took the F uptown this morning - it was PACKED.

even during normal times like 2 downtown Fs come for every uptown F - today it was more like 4 downtown Fs for every uptown F.

E was running, and it was express, hooray!

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/11/black-market-for-gasoline-is-booming.html

E was running, and it was express, hooray!

OK should I, like, flee work now? How long until this blizzard shuts down my one meager connection to wburg (namely the J/M)?

G back, dammit

How that happen?

Obama

lol

Barry did 11-7?

G is back but 'with considerable delays'.

so in other words, the G is back

There is some kind of Zen Koan about "If the G train is delayed, does it require a service advisory?"

"Is it possible that the G came, but no one saw it?"

Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.

Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept on pouring.

The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. "It is overfull. No more will go in!"

"Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless the G train has already passed?"

Beautiful.

Any one get caught in the slush on the way home?

of course. I had to take babysteps everywhere

The L is back, says mta.info

just in time for me to go buy a drum machine in bushwick

I got on possibly the most crowded bus of my entire lifetime, last night, rather than wait for the next when at god knows when. It all worked out.

Not exactly on topic but doesn't belong in quiddities and agonies either. This happened right in front of my building this morning. Two people mowed down, and someone was killed the same way there earlier this year. Deadly Borinquen.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/15/one-dead-and-one-seriously-injured-in-brooklyn-hit-and-run/

http://secondavenuesagas.com/2012/11/20/the-many-mistakes-of-new-jersey-transit/

I wonder if I can even get to where I'm supposed to go for Thanksgiving. Should probably check.

oh yeah that borinquen intersection is fucked up

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2012/11/6538994/now-andrew-cuomo-governor-who-talks-about-transit

xpost Neighborhood guy told me the woman in the hospital also died, but weirdly there's no word of that in the news.

What happened was the two people had halfway crossed and were standing in the 'island' in the middle of Borinquen (not a raised island but defined only by yellow lines) and the hit-and-run guy was coming fast toward Union and decided to pass someone by veering into said 'island', knocked both people into the bridge-bound lane where they were struck by the second vehicle (whose driver didn't flee the scene).

Since the incident there are suddenly cop cars on my block just hangin' out watching traffic for the first time in my 9 year experience of this block. Usually parked in the 'island' which I guess sort of makes it a real island, grim lol.

Almost missed my flight home as the path to newark simply stopped working

http://nymag.com/news/features/traffic-2012-12/

http://instagr.am/p/Svx4vsv0MU/

^^ what was going on here?

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http://www.mta.info/metrocard/promos/Vintagetrain/index.html

thnak u for holding up the F train

a friend invited me to that but I'm in new haven

the people on it looked pretty sad

in fact I think the S stands for sad train

they were probably just being nostalgic sometimes that looks like sad

heyyyyyy still no PATH after ten PM what the fuck america

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/man-pushed-in-front-of-midtown-subway-train-witnesses-say/

so grim :(

the NY Post really went for it with that cover today huh

yeah I can't believe they did that

Post freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi — who had been waiting on the platform of the 49th Street station — ran toward the train, repeatedly firing off his flash to warn the operator.

“I just started running, running, hoping that the driver could see my flash,” said Abbasi, whose camera captured chilling shots of Suk’s tragic fight for his life.

The train slowed, but a dazed and bruised Han still wound up hopelessly caught between it and the platform as it came to a halt.

A shaken Abbasi said the train “crushed him like a rag doll.”

holy shit how is this even real

might as well just say that the using-the-flash-to-get-the-operator's-attention explanation sounds like total bullshit. there's no way the operator wouldn't have seen the man on the tracks, and there's no way having a flash fired at him would clarify anything about the situation/alerted him to anything he didn't know, etc.

yeah, I don't think he needed to give that bullshit explanation. otoh I don't think he necessarily did anything wrong.

whether it was right or wrong to take the picture depends on a lot of things I have no way of knowing, but the explanation stinks of some kind of ugly guilt & justification attempt and is ridiculously implausible. doesn't cast the guy in a good light.