Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

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.

and I get it that a photojournalist will operate on the principle that you shoot first and evaluate later, and I'm not impressed with the evaluation the guy made that suggested to him that he should sell the photo to the Post.

he was a NYPost photographer iirc

In all news reports he's referred to as a freelance photographer, who had been working on a contracted job for the post earlier in the day.

unless I misunderstand how the freelance photojournalism world works, I think he would have still had to sell the photo to the post if it wasn't for the assignment he'd been contracted for? I could be totally wrong about that though.

posts in the grand tradition of [stated fact] + [I might not know what I'm talking about]

yeah I mean I have no idea what the terms of his contract was, like which specific photos he takes on a freelance contract are the property of the post or not. the post was definitely tremendously, egregiously wrong in publishing the photos, but I don't know if the act of taking the photos itself (regardless of what he did with them afterwards) was necessarily wrong.

It is probably the case everyone who associates with the NY Post ends up with a mark or stain that they can't remove.

Or maybe they just feel like their hands are always covered in filth or blood.

http://ginavergel.com/2012/12/04/advice-should-you-ever-fall-or-get-pushed-into-the-subway-tracks/

http://secondavenuesagas.com/2012/12/18/report-mta-chairman-lhota-to-resign-on-friday/

hahah leave before the fare hike, perfect

fare hike was gonna happen even before he came into office

sure but it's good politics regardless

no idea what his campaign/platform will look like but if its him vs quinn I might vote for him. don't think he has a chance regardless.

^ A Giuliani deputy mayor?!? Are u outta yr fuggin mind???

he's prob gonna be more progressive than Quinn on lotsa stuff and w/o a doubt on transportation

not voting for him yet cause who knows how he's actually gonna run this

http://gothamist.com/2012/12/27/man_fatally_struck_by_7_train_in_qu.php

my train! my stop!

btw f the airtrain

Subways are for killing

buzzas are for reviving

ahhh this bothers me greatly

By 10:30, the victim’s mangled body had not been removed from the tracks.

“I heard the train screech as it was stopping and then heard this loud scream,” said Linda Santini-Tripodis, the owner of Merit Group & Associates, who was beneath the 40th Street station at the time.

“I’m never going to forget that scream for as long as I live,” Santini-Tripodis said.