http://secondavenuesagas.com/2012/12/18/report-mta-chairman-lhota-to-resign-on-friday/
― iatee, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 03:09 (eleven years ago) link
hahah leave before the fare hike, perfect
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
fare hike was gonna happen even before he came into office
― iatee, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 03:13 (eleven years ago) link
sure but it's good politics regardless
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 03:14 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― iatee, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 03:14 (eleven years ago) link
^ A Giuliani deputy mayor?!? Are u outta yr fuggin mind???
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 December 2012 02:26 (eleven years ago) link
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
― iatee, Thursday, 27 December 2012 03:09 (eleven years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/2012/12/27/man_fatally_struck_by_7_train_in_qu.php
my train! my stop!
― iatee, Friday, 28 December 2012 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
btw f the airtrain
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 December 2012 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
Subways are for killing
― buzza, Friday, 28 December 2012 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
buzzas are for reviving
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 December 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
ahhh this bothers me greatly
― iatee, Friday, 28 December 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― iatee, Friday, 28 December 2012 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
Lordy.
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 December 2012 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
it would be cool if the MTA got a billion zillion dollars and could install platform doors in all their stations
http://i.imgur.com/ZI9ez.jpg
― 乒乓, Friday, 28 December 2012 12:56 (eleven years ago) link
lotsa cops and news vans here
fewer people on the yellow line
― iatee, Friday, 28 December 2012 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
in other news
http://secondavenuesagas.com/2012/12/28/real-time-subway-location-data-theres-an-app-for-that/
― iatee, Friday, 28 December 2012 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
I know I mentioned it before, but I'm sticking to the center columns on platforms from now on.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 28 December 2012 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/video/2012/12/28/nyregion/100000001977924/suspect-in-subway-killing.html
― iatee, Friday, 28 December 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
chinavision OTM.
― Q-Tip—blessed Q-Tip! (Jon Lewis), Friday, 28 December 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://sunnysidepost.com/2012/12/29/woman-in-custody-following-subway-murder/
― iatee, Saturday, 29 December 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
Iirc don't like 100 ppl die from getting struck by MTA trains every year? Is it just now being widely reported bcz of sensationalism?
― nicki mINOJ (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 29 December 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
almost none of those are homicides
― iatee, Saturday, 29 December 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
A 31-year-old woman will be charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime, according to a source within the Queens district attorney’s office.
The woman, Erica Menendez of the Bronx, is in custody after making statements that implicated herself in the death of Sunando Sen on Thursday night.
The New York Times reported that a law enforcement official said that Ms. Menendez had “told the cops it was an act against Muslims,” and cited the Sept. 11 attacks. The victim, Sunando Sen, was born in India and, according to a roommate, was raised Hindu.
― iatee, Saturday, 29 December 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
“The defendant is accused of committing what is every subway commuter’s nightmare,” Mr. Brown said in an interview. “Being suddenly and senselessly pushed into the path of an oncoming train.”
Mr. Brown quoting Ms. Menendez as telling the police, “I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I’ve been beating them up.”
― iatee, Saturday, 29 December 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
God damn. Living here, walking down the street or riding the subway, there's an extent to which it's not even useful to me to distinguish between whether someone is mentally ill, incredibly stupid or just a fucking asshole.
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 29 December 2012 23:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/nyregion/erika-menendez-suspect-in-fatal-subway-push-had-troubled-past.html
― iatee, Monday, 31 December 2012 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
reagan is laughing at us
― 乒乓, Monday, 31 December 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
reagan say hi to me
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Monday, 31 December 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
fuck that story is deeply depressing
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Monday, 31 December 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
re Lhota for mayor.... BEVARE
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/nyregion/for-giuliani-a-chance-to-put-new-stamp-on-city.html
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
idk nothing in there too shocking
like I said I don't think he has a chance in hell, how hard is it to run against 'the MTA'.
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://secondavenuesagas.com/2013/01/09/wrestling-the-rail-option-away-from-queensway/
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
― iatee, Tuesday, January 1, 2013 10:56 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I just told a friend of mine the other day that I think his opponents should literally just run ads that say "Joe Lhota is running for Mayor of New York City. BUT HE'S THE HEAD OF THE MTA." and that's it.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
it's hard to imagine a worse starting point. as far as most New Yorkers are concerned, the MTA is an evil demon force that occasionally shuts down the subway system, which otherwise functions completely on its own. or Bloomberg, maybe he runs it.
― iatee, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
It's like a parasite running for mayor of its host
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
it's how i became mod iirc
― What am I, in France? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
Most New Yorkers know the subway is kept functioning by the Deros:
a race of mal-formed subhuman creatures called deros (from detrimental robots) who inhabited a vast system of underground cities all over the world. The original name of their habitat was Lemuria, and they had once been slaves of the Lemurian master race. But the master race had long since disappeared from the earth, leaving the ignorant and malicious deros in control of the great cities and wonderful machines it had built. Since then the deros occupied themselves mainly in persecuting the human race who lived on the crust of the earth above them.
The deros were responsible for much of the evil in the world. Catastrophes, from shipwrecks to sprained ankles, were attributable to their influence. They often appeared on the surface of the earth and were sufficiently human in appearance to pass unnoticed in a crowd. But they performed most of their harassment by telepathy, rays, and other remote control devices from their subterranean homes.Their underground cities communicated with the surface through various caves which were extremely dangerous for human beings to enter.
(Source: d@v1d 1cke)
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
But the master race had long since disappeared from the earth, leaving the ignorant and malicious deros in control of the great cities and wonderful machines it had built.
this is actually a pretty good description of ny state politics
― iatee, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/transit-union-slow-trains-save-lives-article-1.1239898
7 train has been terrible this week, wondering whether it's been on purpose
― iatee, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
what a terrible idea
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
mid-1960s subway twinbill at Film Forum today:
http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/dutchman_and_the_incident
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://news.yahoo.com/one-man-dies-one-hurt-minutes-apart-york-023803832.html
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/q-polllhota/
― iatee, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/drunk-new-jersey-man-leg-severed-subway-train-nap-tracks-article-1.1243520
― iatee, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
"But he wasn’t completely safe. A train came roaring into the station and cut off his leg."
what the fuck??
― Yo! MTV La Tengo (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 03:06 (eleven years ago) link
― iatee, Wednesday, January 9, 2013 3:07 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
forget NY State ... this is actually a pretty good description of american politics in general these days.
― 機電工程署署長luriqua在2016年和內特 - 銀的預測山體滑坡,這是我的理解 (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.imagekind.com/New-York-subway-map_art?IMID=5b79b632-2b7d-4718-bca7-45b38525a376
possibly unsafe for work, but not really
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 January 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
things could always be worse: http://gawker.com/5980981/im-certain-more-than-one-person-had-pissed-themselves-every-straphangers-worst-nightmare
― mookieproof, Friday, 1 February 2013 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
N/Q/R still screwed by broken water main.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 February 2013 22:18 (eleven years ago) link