Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

I'm giving up and buying a scooter, I can't handle this shit anymore. And I'm not even upset about the N line, my station will still be fine! It's just a ridiculous commute.

ok, just don't get killed!

My commute is a dream these days. Two stops on the b after the morning rush hour. Several plan bs if the b is screwed up but it's been solid since I started this commute 4 months ago.

Atlantic Ave hub signal problem makes me 50 mins late today, but hey at least

WIFI IS COMING, RIGHT?

http://www.mta.info/status/subway/NQR/24214603

here we go.
http://abc7ny.com/traffic/14-month-shutdown-of-some-n-train-platforms-in-brooklyn-begins-monday/1160567/

and the other shoe falls in my nabe

Beginning 12:01 AM Monday, Jan 25

The Coney Island-bound F platform at Ditmas Av will close for renovation until Spring 2016.

You can't make this stuff up. Just today, service alerts have included (BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO):

Delays in Bk-bound 3, 4, 5, due to a broken rail at Utica
M and R disrupted in Queens due to FDNY action at 71st St
N, R, Q trains suspended, then delayed, due to FDNY at Prince St
2 and 5 suspended, then delayed, due to signal problems at Nereid Ave
2 service suspended between Franklin and Flatbush due to unauthorized person on tracks at Winthrop St

IN ONE MORNING.

finally read this; the stuff about interlockings is p. cool

Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks

Often, a can or a piece of aluminum foil is enough to fool a track circuit. “Something as simple as that can create a Conga line of trains,” Habersham says.

This is adorable. Or would be if it weren't infuriating.

don't worry, the Cuomo Plan will save the day in 2116.

https://i.imgur.com/A4XrCiS.jpg

oh god help us

you know i love you, mook, but as on ILB yer allowed to link to the story

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Streetcar-System-Brooklyn-Queens-Proposal-Mayor-de-Blasio-367602431.html

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/02/04/nyregion/04STREETCAR-3/04STREETCAR-3-superJumbo.jpg

many of those areas are indeed poorly served by the subway, but i'm not too sure that connecting them to each other is worth $2b

and ugh, stop with the ferries

granted that i get most of my information/opinions from Second Avenue Sagas but my take-away is that de Blasio, like Cuomo basically, wants achievable, sexy-sounding projects that can be launched while he's still around to be associated with them, and that this is more important than the efficacy or cost-benefit of those projects. ferries are the ultimate scam in this sense but this doesn't seem far off from that.

it's not a crazy route for some kind of transit system - although it is striking how much of it duplicates the G for no good reason, and how much of it isn't THAT far off of the N/R- but just as when it was a glimmer in the eye of the NYT's architecture "critic," a streetcar that is not separated from traffic will not solve any transportation problems along that route. and for $2 billion you could get Triboro RX and probably throw in the lost 10th avenue 7 station as a bonus. or do at least the next phase and probably the next two phases of the second avenue subway.

also striking how that very map shows how many other areas desperately lack transit. really the entire only stretches of this that are really necessary in terms of serving large populations that have no access save buses are the red hook to navy yard part, and maybe from navy yard to the williamsburg bridge. the north williamsburg stretch is a big prize goodie for ultra-gentrifying real estate developers but not needed given the closeness of the G, L, and J/M. mark my words, if this gets built, the stuff north of there will be first to go if there is any sanity in the world. but meanwhile, you gotta think, why not crosstown lines in manhattan (again not shared with traffic). why not the utica avenue line? why not anything but this?

iirc there might be some legal issues w/ triboro rx, though it would be sweet

I would probably take this stupid streetcar but it is still stupid

i'd walk a little more for AFFORDABLE HOUSING

walk 2 queens

a street car doesn't require approval from Cuomo which is probably the biggest factor in DeBlasio pushing for this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/nyregion/mayor-de-blasio-to-propose-streetcar-line-linking-brooklyn-and-queens.html?_r=0

"Subways are not for sleeping."

http://gothamist.com/2016/02/04/subway_sleep_nypd_policy.php

many of those areas are indeed poorly served by the subway, but i'm not too sure that connecting them to each other is worth $2b

aw yeah finally a line that connects all the high rises

moneyed wheels get the grease

delays on all outdoor lines

kill everyone

gutsy move by andrew c. not to close the subway

no notable delays on the Q/R... MTA is now issuing delay warnings just as a corporate condom most likely.

crane down affecting the 123?

a street car doesn't require approval from Cuomo which is probably the biggest factor in DeBlasio pushing for this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/nyregion/mayor-de-blasio-to-propose-streetcar-line-linking-brooklyn-and-queens.html?_r=0

― jbn, Thursday, 4 February 2016 12:55 (Yesterday) Permalink

OTM. Subway system so much needs a divorce from the MTA, but I can't imagine how that would realistically happen.

http://www.streetsblog.org/2016/02/04/4-reasons-a-2-5-billion-brooklyn-queens-streetcar-doesnt-add-up/

stalled train + signal problems on the Manhattan Bridge clusterfuck

a sick passenger short of the trifecta

my trains go nowhere near the manhattan bridge, and yet . . .

door-dragging death in Kew Gardens

http://pix11.com/2016/02/16/investigation-into-safety-underway-after-man-caught-in-subway-doors-dragged-to-his-death/

http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2016/02/19/w-train-is-coming-back-.html

kinda "no doy" but still interesting

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/02/mta-one-day-625-delays.html

@Gothamist
L Train Advocates Demand A New Tunnel Before MTA Shuts Down Current Ones

good idea

lol

where is my self driving car goddammit

b/d F & G trains exp b/t Church Av and Smith St due to an investigation of a person struck by a train at Fort Hamilton Pkwy

huh i thought they had euphemisms for this

"sick passenger

https://0075397ca1480a6422a6-373ec2a9a8c1bd0dc32a6d880ae07ded.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/MX350BL_PRODUCT.jpg

broke new ground tonight -- one of these, on the train, at rush hour

it was probably no bigger than some of the more extravagant strollers, but it's motorized ffs

omg

fucking hell, fort hamilton is my stop; now i know why my girl was late getting home.

http://gothamist.com/2016/03/15/hudson_yards_fail.php

good luck usa

those were intentional design choices. it's all about creating a uniform nyc transit experience

gothamist, nypost in straight ripping off benjamin kabak shocker

good luck to me getting to Astoria this morning; the changes on the Weekender map basically say "Just try it."

somebody got hit by the F train today and died

http://gothamist.com/2016/05/05/mta_l_train_nightmare.php