Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

it's all hurting's fault

sorry, hurting, but as a parent you have destroyed planet earth and also the nyc subways.

obv I am talking about just one genus of parent, the selfish fucks

yeah iatee, you and your permanent-rush-hour never-a-seat idyll welcomes spacehog parents.

honestly, the real enemy on the subways is students. teenagers and college students alike. they're loud, they lean against the pole, they don't let riders off before they trample into the train, they run and cause a ruckus on the platform, they've got backpacks swinging all over the place, and they have absolutely no regard for anyone else.

also smelly hobos

of course. let's not forget the hobos.

people who play games on their cell phones w/ the sound on are actually the true enemy

they're bad. but there's significant overlap with students there. see also: people who play music on their iphone speaker.

did we say "fucking breeders" yet?
fucking breeders

they don't let riders off before they trample into the train

yet to notice which part of the population doesn't do this

sorry, but a third of em clearly think they are the upper caste

F train derails in Woodside, minor injuries

http://gothamist.com/2014/05/02/f_train_derailment_in_queens.php#.

it's crazy that this weird world is underneath us EVERY DAY

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8232/8477003948_43896bcfca_z.jpg https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8391/8475915099_5ab6b2c96e_z.jpg https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8229/8477004644_41d80828a3_z.jpg

I love photos of subway tunnels being dug.

awesome

Wo.

http://www.policymic.com/articles/88761/what-new-yorkers-don-t-realize-about-their-subway-musicians

ha, i'm judging at that on Tuesday! and am in that photo!

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10:01 AM (2 minutes ago)

ALL BOROUGH, ALL LINES, Power Dip

Due to a temporary power loss system wide, expect delays on all lines. Allow additional travel time.

gonna be a long summer

borough's trains to be pulled by burros

I just took the F at 11am, no perceptible delays

(also only hour the F is not SRO)

Post here when you ride the G train shuttle bus.

I ate some overpriced artisanal pasta place near the bus stop. Won't be doing that again anytime soon.

i'm doing everything possible to avoid G madness

I rode it Saturday night, to get to the gay bar in Wmsburg after the Mets game. Not bad at that hour.

Sometimes I take the A train at the same time a baseball game has gotten out and people are going home, and then I curse the parents that bore me.

So many ways to be annoyed on the subway, so little time.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bedbugs-found-3-n-line-subway-trains-article-1.1893220

where is baseball affecting the A train?

http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/96700509489/how-memorizing-19-05-can-help-you-outsmart-the-mta

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/23/new-york-subway-homesick-london-underground-mta-map

lolololol it seems fairly clear that she was living on the ACE.

if she was confused about which train was the local vs. express that resulted in 3 extra stops before reaching hoyt schermerhon, then she was getting on at nostrand, where the express and local are *on different floors*

and the train letter and number is on the side of every car at least once, except for me today since I was on a train with some dead electronics: no signboards and no air conditioning, the latter giving me a nice taste of the london underground.

her complaints: air conditioned cars, express trains, color coding by manhattan trunk lines, and too many fonts (?? should just be helvetica aside from some odd ancient signs)

her legit complaints: dilapidated stations, cluttered map, no countdown clocks

I am a willing victim of any and all nyc subway trolling. I'm ashamed.

otm

the map isn't needlessly complex, it needs to be complex, because there are just a lot of weird things going on in the system

legit complains: 'I ask the unimpressed, triumphantly unhelpful MTA staff.'

I can't believe she's complaining about AC, it's almost like there were zero typical NYC summer days this summer.

NB I have come close to passing out on the F platform at Herald Sq before.

not that it doesn't have its problems too, but I like something closer to the map on the right, just for clarity (and for separating local and express lines):
http://www.kickmap.com/images/7_wholemap_comparison.jpg

a movable icy tundra

this is the best part!

YES. cv, where is that map hosted?? I used to have a bookmark on something hosted by Columbia but it went down years ago and I never replaced it. I want to look at that one.

I miss the affordability of the days when NYC was as dilapidated as the worst stations. Redilapidate promptly!

that map still has the W and V trains
xp

Thought revive would be about E train slowdown this morning.

that map is this: http://www.kickmap.com
it only exists in full as an app, but it's the one I tend to use.

http://www.kickmap.com/about.html