Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

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?

i stayed home. i watched 5 unboardably busy 2/3s go by and gave up.

I'm trying to hard to get a job within walking distance of my apartment.

I don't know if I can face going back to the morning Midtown commute.

*SO hard

fuck cuomo

metro-north hit a car on the tracks, first car of the train caught fire, multiple fatalities rumored on twitter

at least 6 dead

oh jesus

My mom messaged me a couple of hours ago asking in a panic if I was on that train. Oh moms.

A bunch of people from my office take that line, although only one or two would be out early enough to be on that train (namely, senior management).

A study of DNA collected in the subway system found that just 0.2 percent matched the human genome and nearly half matched no known organism.

i have GOT to stop biting my nails, that shit is going to kill me

reminds me of the time I saw a dude standing facing the inside of the subway door on the E train and just hocking loogies onto the door, one after another, for like ten minutes

There were not one but two dudes smoking their own joints in the rear car of the 6 train I was on this morning. The other passengers were nonplussed which was weird.

xxxpost Arthur Machen to thread!

a banner week for the L train. Today was the second morning this week I had to give up and take the G to Court Square to the manhattan E to get to work in Chelsea because of an 'investigation' or a signal malfunction.

I might just have to make the G to the E my regular (there's also the M to 23rd but that's starting to get almost too crowded to ride by the time it gets to Marcy).

F train disaster this morning

by the time i got on (9:15ish) there were 3 of them lined up at Ditmas

Wtf with this year?

(xp)Good thing I took E.

Had spurious sick passenger hold us up at 21st/Queensbridge on yesterday's F though.

http://i.imgur.com/dXsmGVq.jpg

this is from 1981 ('The quality of service provided by the New York City subway system has declined sharply over the past year' lol) and assumes an average wage of $8/hr

it's cool tho, an airtrain from willets point will make it all better

i mean i actually think the system works awfully well considering how large and old it is, but goddamn it should have a higher priority

I would actually guess the missed productivity from cuomo deciding to give nyc a de facto snow day probably had more of an economic effect than a year's worth of people being a little late.

it's weird that subway renewal is such a low priority political issue for most new yorkers when like 2 out of 3 people living in the boroughs rely on it more or less exclusively for transportation

F was still running with traffic delays when i took it in at like 1pm

Really feeling this sort of blended Jacob's Ladder/Brazil futuristic/retro bleakness vibe these past few days.

reading about the Boston T to feel better

F(uck) train
F(rozen) train

50 mins of standing at first 3 stops

only G & L lines currently reporting GOOD SERVICE.

And also:

By one of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's measures, the total number of delays in 2014 increased an astonishing 45.6 percent over 2013. Even the MTA's less drastic numbers still point to slower service. More is at work here than meandering crowds of uncivilized cretins sullying the sacred shrine to transportation the the New York City subway once was. But the agency has no clear institutional explanation for the decline.

That 45.6 percent number is officially known as the "12-month average of the system number of terminal delays," and it comes from a report on the state of the subway in December 2014. A "terminal delay" occurs when a train arrives at its final station late, regardless of how long you might have had to wait for the train in the middle of its route. If one train is late to the last stop on its route, then that is one terminal delay.

http://jalopnik.com/you-are-not-insane-the-new-york-city-subway-is-getting-1687817007

C Subway Line Icon train service is suspended the entire line.

Well that's ironic, because today is when Riders Alliance planned their #IWanttoC soc media mobilization around what C riders want from their MTA service.

https://www.facebook.com/ridersny?fref=ts

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_XWNtWXAAI16K4.png

at least we have the G

it's my train, somehow

fucked up that the current blizzard is much worse than the prior SUPERBLIZZARD and people are kinda skidding all over the streeets

i just saw a band of kids on dirt bikes doing wheelies down broadway in brooklyn, dunno if that means everything is cool or if it means we're in mad max times at last