Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

Why would you regard that as a civilized or appropriate response, to call for someone's erasure like a fascist? Is it that difficult for you to either confront in substance or ignore the ideas and arguments that I present? I could come up with an equivalently horrible thing to say in return, but I'll pass.

"no. "

Yes. Do you think you have a right to ask someone to stop sitting in their seat because you would like to use it yourself? I get out of the way as long as people need to use the space to enter/exit, but I am otherwise going to use that space unless and until someone pushes me out of it. I'm not sure where the odd "spread eagle" non-sequitur comes from, but I guess some strawmen do come in that position.

i was talking about ppl who don't move, motherfucker

trip home from what was otherwise a very enjoyable and uplifting day was somewhat depressed by stepping into an F train car with one indigent dude with a ski hat pulled over his face completely laid out on a bench laying in a puddle of what appeared to be his own urine which was spilling out onto the floor and keeping everyone else on the car at safe distance. guy proceeded to idly masturbate through his pants at random intervals and everybody kinda pretended that wasn't happening. it was sad.

hey why is everyone crowding back here when the front of the car is practically empty? hey, what's that smell? OH DEAR GOD

Uptown 6 express from brooklyn bridge -> 14 street today because of medical emergency @ canal

xpost u rode the O train brah

mook you have to choose btwn that and the DC metro being on fire

minor but amusing scene this morning -- if anyone is familiar with the E/M platform at Lex/53rd, there's this thing that confuses the shit out of everyone where you can connect to the 6 train but only from one side of the platform, so you have to walk all the way to the end of the platform to get to the right escalator, and also if you enter on the E/M side you have to go down, across, and back up to get to the 6.

This morning, couple standing at the bottom of the escalator

Man: "It's right here!"
Woman: "It's the other end of the platform!"
Man: "Come on, it's right here!"
Woman: "No, it says right there on the sign, walk to the other end of the platform!"
Man: "Whatever, it's the same thing!" *gets on escalator WITHOUT WIFE*
Me (also on escalator): "Uh, excuse me sir, but she's right"
Man: "Whatever, it's all the same platform!"
Other woman on escalator: "Sir you have to go back down and walk to the end of the platform:
Man: ...
*man gets to top*: "See, it's the same platform!" *realizes there's just some exit turnstiles in front of him* "Ah, shit."

felt kinda bad for the woman in question -- people coming in the doors, looking revolted and running away, people 30 feet away breathing through their shirts -- but damn

hadn't smelled anything like that since having to ask a guy who appeared to have shit smeared on his face to leave my bookstore 15 years ago

i think that with the cops being less broken windows-y and the weather being intermittently killing cold, the subways are feeling particularly halfway house and carnival for the past month.

@2AvSagas
Cuomo just announced a Laguardia AirTrain via Grand Central Parkway to the 7 at Willets Point.

ready by 2030 y/n

Oh, I drove through the rutted byways of Willets Point last weekend. 2030 is generous.

that's fantastic are they going to have the 7 run express at all times to not make such a trip an endless nightmare?

lol at them just plain giving up and accepting the terms of, like, three blocks' worth of NIMBYs in astoria, to the point of deflecting the train off in the wrong direction entirely. the 7 express is a totally reasonable commute to midtown, but the 7 local is about twice as long as the N/Q.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/nyregion/mta-raises-fares-subways-and-buses.html

Fuck off and die

I dunno, seems reasonable

Prince Andy says there will be limited subway service after 7pm, and there could be a complete closedown of roads, MetroNorth and the LIRR as of 11pm. An announcement about such a shutdown will be made after 4pm today.

MTA will decide at 4pm whether subway service will be suspended later (after 7, presumably).

subway closing entirely at 11pm

F was running on a half hour schedule by midday, whole lot of "QUIT FUCKING PUSHING" on overfull trains

Half hour schedule? As in one train every half hour? Good thing I took the R.

yeah, one train every half hour.

Matt Flegenheimer of the NYT:

@mattfleg
MTA chair says this is the 1st full-scale subway shutdown due to snow in history. Have been shutdowns for other extreme weather, like Sandy.

MTA chair earlier, asked if underground service might stop: "I don’t believe so b/c there’d be no reason for us—we’d be able to run trains."

subway shutdown is stupid and I blame cuomo

punishing us for voting for Teachout and Hawkins

http://secondavenuesagas.com/2015/01/26/after-cuomos-surprise-overnight-subway-service-continues-without-passengers/

amazin'

MTA Long Island Rail Road, MTA Metro-North Railroad, MTA NYC Transit Bus and Subway Service -- including Staten Island Railway (SIR) -- is suspended for the duration of Winter Storm Juno.

Incredible

I mean I am going to enjoy my day off work as much as anybody else but this is incredible

"Winter Storm Juno"

Subway service resuming at 9 AM

His Majesty says to expect "Sunday service" (not peak weekday) by noon.

Yeah this is somewhat silly. And it's nice to have a snow day and all but I have a toddler so I have to figure out how to entertain her.

subway shutdown is stupid and I blame cuomo

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I mean I am going to enjoy my day off work as much as anybody else but this is incredible

― 龜, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 7:21 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'll stop mindlessly posting second avenue sagas links after this one, but the wnyc excerpt here does a good job of explaining how the mta has existing plans in place that are designed to keep the subways running in large blizzards, which were being prepared for implementation before cuomo's decision.

http://secondavenuesagas.com/2015/01/28/a-postmortem-on-cuomos-questionable-subway-snow-decision/

fuck cuomo

those two words run through my head all the time

Was just thinking that I've been in HK during typhoon season and trains usually still run unless it's like the very highest typhoon grade?

the 7 to laguardia plan is the more important fuck cuomo issue of the month really

http://www.mtr.com.hk/en/customer/main/passenger_guide_typhoon.html

Looks like the HK MTR runs their underground trains even during T10 (most serious) typhoons

choosing to stay on the F when the A platform is full at Jay = smoke condition on the F

the jay street conundrum

The L smelled bad and burn-y last night

Maybe from that warehouse fire??

I was thinking that must be it somehow

"smoke condition" at Lex/59th this morning too. Really whole commute was pandemonium, E train seemingly not running or running very infrequently, took the R, got stuck at my station, then got stuck in the tunnel. People pushing, yelling, some lady who obviously couldn't fit on the train wailing like she was trying to catch the last shuttle off earth before nuclear Armageddon.

some eejit pretty much ran right through me on the stairs at Canal St too. If I'd had an extra 3 seconds I'd have thrown my bag at her head.

(don't push me i'm close to the edge)

I wish I stayed home today

we all agree it's getting worse since the new year, yes?