Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

i can also see your run-of-the-mill juvenile delinquents having fun slashing tires, stealing seats etc. i haven't looked up close at the bikes so i dunno how protected they are against stuff like that. i imagine the ingenuity of youthful enthusiasm will be able to overcome most obstacles.

stuff happens but these things are built like tanks

this raises an important point -- nice as public bike racks are, how much better would public toilets be!?

paris also has public toilets and that experiment has been less successful I think

we have public toilets in nyc, they are called "mcdonalds"

also "starbucks"

yep

don't forget barnes & noble.

looking in fear for another type of vehicle that might run me over = suckage

R train tunnel to close for 12 to 14 months

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324563004578525602849939578.html

sometimes i wish the mta would end 24 hr service in favor of night buses, if that meant better service

says someone who lives in manhattan

=)

those tunnels had better not flood again this season. and I MEAN it.

I posted upthread at some point about the 3 pedestrian deaths in the past year on my block (Borinquen Place leading up to the Williamsburg Bridge).

This week they started work on the creation of a permanent center island and plaza thingy and other permanent obstructions to address the situation. I'm glad to see it.

The timing of the R thing is weird for me because I've just taken it twice recently for random things, after never using it at all. Uh...oh well, I guess?

will never not lol @ "Borinquen"; it sounds like shade a Jamaican lady would throw at a drag queen

Borinquen is the indigenous name for Puerto Rico

Literal translation 'Land of the Gods' according to my super.

ugh http://gawker.com/two-men-caught-on-video-assaulting-lgbt-youth-group-aft-654452831

quite a shitfight out there today w/broken rail on the a/c at fulton st

a conductor straight up *lied* to me when he said there was another f train directly behind this one ;_;

i'll never vote for lhota now

Oh is that what happened?? I had the longest wait for an A and when it finally came it was running local and they never explained.

Uptown E train taking forever because of police investigation at Fifth Avenue.

so so so glad i'm not dealing with the mta this summer

Yup the effed A train is why I took a Z to gates and hoofed it from there. Now I have more dry cleaning to do.

I was carrying a lot of stuff.

on the bright side i took a nice new c train last week as opposed to the wrecks that normally run on that line. probably just a glitch

if you hadn't gotten off the train would have gone straight to heaven

only if heaven is euclid ave

young lady randomly stabbed by crazy person at lex and 59th station this morning--scary

C trains will be switching back after summer btw. Which makes me happy sine I prefer the old cars.

What a lovely evening to be scrambling around for alt routes.

A cautionary tale via the Post:

A drunken man was electrocuted and killed relieving himself on the third rail in Brooklyn this morning, sources said. Matthew Zeno, 30, was walking with a friend along the tracks for the southbound G train around 3:10 a.m., at Union Avenue and Broadway in Williamsburg when the horrific accident occurred, cops said. His 26-year-old pal tried saving him and was also shocked, police added. The friend was able to flag down MTA workers, who in turn called for help, sources said. Both men were rushed to Woodhull Hospital where Zeno died and the second man was listed in stable condition.

has no one seen 'beat street'?

i've always wondered what would happen if you poured water onto the third rail

i'm sure he'll be buried in his skinny jeans.

kind of a dick comment there morbs; we've all been drunk and stupid at one point

spose so

some have a running start on one of em

Anyway, there are skeptics.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/07/it-really-possible-die-peeing-third-rail-investigation/66950/

E train to Queens took me over an hour for the second time in two weeks last night. Around 8pm seems to be a bad time to ride.

(normally takes less than 30 mins)

Yeah, it took forever last night. They said it was a police investigation although I don't know what really happened. E train used to be pretty fast in the evening rush, up until about 2009. Usually take the 7 on the way home which ends up only being a little slower on a normal day and is gnerally more pleasant.

Pray, pray that the MTA never deactivates your 30-day MetroCard, because for starters, they can't figure out why. It's like a Kafka-Dumb & Dumber mashup.

not sure if I can hotlink an image from Instagram but this dude was on my subway car last night o_0

http://distilleryimage2.ak.instagram.com/0a811a4a103411e3bb5722000aeb3e27_7.jpg

i love praying mantises. they are so boss.

just hangin on the ceiling, no big whoop

praying mantises are cool but the people who were sitting in the seats right under him were maybe a little overconfident in his gripping ability I thought

Kittens Run onto Subway Tracks in Brooklyn, Trains Shut Down

cutest service outage evar

Has anyone done any serious writing on the "Showtime" phenomenon with the boom box and the death-defying dance moves? The history of it, the risks, behind-the-scenes interviews with the performers, which stretches of the line have the most performances, what the MTA thinks, etc.? Yesterday I was on the D between 59th and 125th and a "show" began which devolved immediately into what felt like three to four agonizing minutes of the speaker cutting in and out from silence to a thunderous beat based on some 80s song I now can't place, and the guy trying to fix it by various means.

Ha, I was just talking about that with H recently. If I were a journalist I'd love to follow a group of those kids around. We get a lot of them on the E train in Queens and it's interesting to watch the variations in style, talent-level, etc. Certain moves seem to become memes, and they also tend to use a similar kind of music (and I can't really place the style, sort of hip-hop based club music) and I wonder whether they come from the same area, or whether they might even work for someone. Certain things are staples -- the hat-tricks, the pole swinging, etc., and lately I've started to see some contortionist-type moves, a few really impressive.