Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

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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

cool mad max times iirc

all-underground runaround for me i guess

my sister asked me what line i want my next apartment to be near. "the Portland trolley"

Due to a rail condition at W 4 St-Washington Square, the following service changes are in effect:

Southbound A trains are running express from 59 St-Columbus Circle to Canal St.

Southbound E trains are running express from 42 St-Port Authority BusTerminal to Canal St.

Some southbound E trains are running on the F line from W 4 St-Washington Square to 2 Av.

C train service is suspended.

Southbound F trains are running with delays.

anyone who made it back to Brooklyn, plz SAY HOW

Walk the bridge

About to jump on the E/M line towards Queens, which MTA does not say is fucked up. P sure it will be fucked up anyway, even on half of good days it's fucked up.

Hurting, did track fire at 36th affect you this morning?

an F train went out of service at bergen this morning, so Fs and Gs were stacked up in a holding pattern. got on a packed F at carroll, sliding past this ian holm-looking motherfucker who was, of course, camped in the doorway like a bbenbag. ('it's cool; he was there first!') everyone's sardined in their coats and it's getting warm. ian holm -- who was carrying a briefcase despite not being dressed like a briefcase carrier -- pulls a scrambled-egg sandwich out of his coat pocket, tears it in half, and starts eating it.

or trying to -- he's high, or drunk, or somehow otherwise disabled, and there's egg on his face and his shirt and he's wiping his fumbling, eggy fingers all over the pole, swaying over the increasingly alarmed woman sitting beside/beneath him. we're finally moving at this point, and the doors are closed and the moist, eggy smell is becoming overwhelming.

curiously, i don't really question the series of random events that led to my living in nyc. it's cool here. but i can't take much more ian holm

xp: who ever really knows? There were delays. There are always delays. We never know what they are really about. I feel it is unreasonable at some point to call them delays when they are routine.

I blame Cuomo.

xp: who ever really knows? There were delays. There are always delays. We never know what they are really about. I feel it is unreasonable at some point to call them delays when they are routine.

― five six and (man alive), Friday, March 6, 2015 9:51 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hearing this to the tune of a hold steady track

Due to @MTA signal problems @ World Trade Center, MN, service changes & delays on A,C,E,F & G Trains citywide. Info: mta.info.

why is the G, which doesn't go to manhattan, delayed

https://subwayrecord.wordpress.com/2015/03/26/a-guinness-world-record-diary-dr-strangeline-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-about-the-amateur-new-york-subway-riding-committee-and-love-the-mta/

One of my favorite transfers was at Park Place/World Trade Center. I found this transfer interesting due to the layout of the station. In order to transfer normally from the E to the 2/3 train, you have to take the stairs at the far north end of the E platform, walk several blocks north through a long passageway to the A/C platform, and then walk that same distance back south to take a stairway up (followed by several flights of stairs down) to the 2/3 platform (path marked in blue below). However, subway patrons who have unlimited passes, as I did, can ascend those same stairs from the E train platform, exit at the turnstiles, cross the hallway, and swipe back in at the stairs to the 2/3 platform (path marked in red below).

i had to go from the 2/3 to the 4/5 at Fulton in a rush-hour clusterfuck earlier in the week, my god, what a joke

fulton station is my life

that's a fun read caek

I've got it open but can't read if I want to get my work done today

even as someone who knows virtually nothing about the MTA it was a really fun read

I LOVE THIS!!!

http://harpers.org/archive/1956/03/subways-are-for-sleeping

what the

http://cdn-sas.secondavenuesagas.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/63-Street-Tiles.jpg

too much time on ilx + wtf with that font

omg that is my favorite subway station!!

bcz of insane long escalator?

Can we take a minute to talk about the Lexington Avenue-63rd St. station? It is so fucking cavernous and so far underground and every time I use it I feel like I'm stuck in some sort of early 1970's version of purgatory. It's amazing that it's so big and used for just one line! Also, apparently it didn't open until 1989 but looks/feels like it was designed much earlier. I mean, those fucking tiles, oh my GOD! And also the way the signs above the (neverending) escalators are designed and how dirty they are; the whole thing just seems so surreal to me. Do stranger stations exist?

― the aztec mystic pizza (Stevie D), Monday, July 12, 2010 5:39 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbh that typeface matches the gritty dated feel/design of that station quite well

not just the escalator but how high the ceilings are, it feels SO BIG

these signs tho

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tNtrJWoYwjs/TiMcWkV9fqI/AAAAAAAAFAE/xIMCyu-26Is/s1600/IMG_6251.JPG

ok that's a pretty wild piece of signage