our fury is justified
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/12/nyregion/subway-complaints-straphangers-fuming.html
https://www.6sqft.com/as-subway-delays-double-cuomo-may-cut-mta-funding-by-65-million/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 February 2017 20:32 (seven years ago) link
scruffy presumably homeless young dude lying prone on the subway seat yesterday kept dispassionately yelling FUCK YOU every eight to ten seconds for an hour punctuated by occasional moments of hysterical laughter and "next stop: GUANTANAMO"at one point someone must've challenged him because I overheard "FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. Not you. Them. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU."which inevitably brought to mindhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcuYZCv3cKM
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Monday, 13 February 2017 20:37 (seven years ago) link
https://medium.com/sidewalk-talk/new-map-demo-how-the-l-train-shutdown-will-impact-your-commute-6a1dc74f65f5#.bppanf144
e.g. east williamsburg to 1st ave by public transport goes from 18 mins to 71 mins
https://transit.sidewalklabs.com/#{"origin":{"lat":40.70641128564592,"lng":-73.9284670949707},"options":{"bus_multiplier":1},"center":{"lat":40.71211783143387,"lng":-73.95443208447267},"zoomLevel":12,"mode":"compare-settings","options2":{"bus_multiplier":1,"exclude_stops":["L06","L05","L03","L02","L01"]},"dest":{"lat":40.73190929073145,"lng":-73.98262023925781}}
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 23 February 2017 21:43 (seven years ago) link
that link again goo.gl/QH38DU
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 23 February 2017 21:44 (seven years ago) link
link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 23 February 2017 21:45 (seven years ago) link
jfc this is the link and if it isn't i give up
i heard this is amber coffman's fault
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 February 2017 21:46 (seven years ago) link
Gas leak in JH shut down 7 train
― Nesta Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 March 2017 18:52 (seven years ago) link
near brawl on the F tonight!
let it go, 62yo italian-american dude
― mookieproof, Thursday, 9 March 2017 00:46 (seven years ago) link
the mosaics t the 72nd and 86th St Q stops are some of best and most wonderfully executed examples of public art I've ever seen
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 10 March 2017 21:41 (seven years ago) link
What's goin on up there? I've never had a reason to take the Q that far since the new stations opened.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 March 2017 21:55 (seven years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/2017/04/17/illicit_brucker_gct_tour.php
knives out at the mta, what's going on?
― 龜, Monday, 17 April 2017 20:51 (seven years ago) link
welp, looks like i chose the right personal day
http://gothamist.com/2017/04/21/mta_subway_power_out.php
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 April 2017 15:19 (seven years ago) link
you are correct
― mookieproof, Friday, 21 April 2017 15:20 (seven years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/nyregion/new-york-subway-signals.html
― 龜, Monday, 1 May 2017 18:19 (seven years ago) link
Three major power failures in 18 days, two at rush hour.
80 minutes between 2 stations is my new personal record (Prospect Park/7 Ave on the Q).
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 14:58 (six years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/2017/05/09/mta_power_outage_at_dekalb_avenue_p.php
B, D, N, Q, R and W service has resumed as of 9:40 a.m., according to the MTA
hahahahahahaha
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link
Con Edison spokesman Sidney Alvarez said there was a "voltage dip." The utility company got no report of a power outage, he said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/b-train-system-flub-throws-rush-hour-subway-commute-chaos-article-1.3149762
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
G down for some reason at nights now
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
bookmark
http://www.straphangers.org/complaints.html
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
lmao the MTA runs fewer trains than scheduled and slows/stops them without reason and thinks this pleases riders https://t.co/5SzSPZlJKG pic.twitter.com/bDiQ1DiIAH— slackbot (@pareene) May 23, 2017
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 21:40 (six years ago) link
glad i missed this one
http://pix11.com/2017/06/05/passengers-stuck-on-f-train-with-no-lights-or-air-conditioning/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 11:11 (six years ago) link
I was on a D at exactly the same period going the exact same route
― 龜, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
further apocalyptic imagery
http://gothamist.com/2017/06/06/harrowing_a_f_train_video_nightmare.php
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 16:17 (six years ago) link
surprised people weren't kicking out windows tbhthis is gonna happen with the wrong combination of people in a car one day and somebody's gonna get killed
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 16:35 (six years ago) link
we're definitely moving toward a casualty event
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
In case u missedhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/nyregion/how-did-the-subway-get-so-bad-look-to-the-c-train.html
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 21:48 (six years ago) link
a city budgeting vet delivers some castor oil (first of a series)
This isn’t just the subways, you’ll see it in all American infrastructure over the next decade. There was a major build in the 30s, and then again in the 60s. (New York and the whole northeast are especially susceptible to this schedule) Things like bridges are sold under 30 years bonds (sometimes 40) which reflects their useful life. This can be pushed to 50 or 60 years, but at some point, as with any maintenance (like your car), you’re paying more to fix it than just throw it out and get a new one. So since our infrastructure was last really built in the 60's, that “some point” is basically now, where we can slap on all the duct tape we want, but it’s rebuild time.
Of course, there is no rebuild coming. You can call up your local government contact and ask them for the rebuild rates on roads and bridges and watermains and sewers, you’ll soon discover that many are on 200 and 300 years cycles. This isn’t re-paving roads, this is “tear it up and build a new one.” You’ll have to trust me that bridges are only good for 50 years, but common sense should tell you that a road probably needs to be rebuilt more often than every 200 years. We can blame the GOP and tea partiers all we want, but there’s not a single Democratic politician proposing anywhere near the infrastructure funding we need, even if there were, there’s not a single voter out there who would vote for the kinds of tax hikes we’d need to address it, we’re just not close....
http://fusion.kinja.com/how-the-mta-got-so-broke-1795903465
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 June 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
MTA is asking employers to tell their workers stay home or work odd hours. pic.twitter.com/J4T3pueqJW— Danielle Furfaro (@DanielleFurfaro) June 12, 2017
― mookieproof, Monday, 12 June 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
past few months have been markedly worse. system is beginning to grind down where even jaded residents are feeling it.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 12 June 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
i'm starting to add a half hour for most trips just in case
on the weekend, an hour
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 June 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
I was a half hour late to something i left a fifteen minutes early to on sunday so i probably should!
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 12 June 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
My J back from the airport just ... stopped at the Norwood Avenue platform, no action for a few minutes, then an announcement that there's a problem with the doors, driver (?) comes through the cars with another technician, fiddling with each door for a sec, more time passes, new announcement that because of an electrical problem they can't open the doors or really, do anything. Eventually the doors open and we're all dumped out onto the platform, no further announcement, train is just sitting there. Will it leave and be replaced by a working train? Or should we just give up and figure out the bus home from here? Thankfully this last part was only five minutes or so but in total we were probably at this one stop for fifteen minutes. All anecdotal of course but it seems hard to avoid the conclusion that we are all living in the Inferno of Dante or perhaps of DOOM. Better yet, add a smile!
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Monday, 12 June 2017 23:06 (six years ago) link
courtesy is contagious and so is whatever that guy who is taking up three seats has
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 06:32 (six years ago) link
Those signal overhauls may not get done in that 100-year timeline
http://gothamist.com/2017/06/14/subway_signals_mta_repairs.php
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
Craziness on the downtown 6 train @MTA! Watermain break... not today Satan!!! 😧😱 pic.twitter.com/NiBqfwqy2Y— Nef B (@dreambelieve34) June 14, 2017
― 龜, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
Took me a minute to parse that as not being water gushing in through the window
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 20:25 (six years ago) link
Things got so bad on a delayed subway this AM that people jumped from the emergency exit and walked along the track https://t.co/DJZYDFsyJT— Tom Gara (@tomgara) June 20, 2017
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
The Riders Alliance is not impressed. "The problem is absence of leadership," they say. pic.twitter.com/5NEKIdzgKT— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) June 20, 2017
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
lol I know someone who works for Riders Alliance She was recently ON a train that stopped for so long that passengers walked through tunnels to escape. She posted to facebook like "IRONICALLY this is the first time I've had to evacuate from the MTA!" and the first comment was, "Hey, I can recommend a good organization for that...."
― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 16:43 (six years ago) link
“I will vouch for reports that the train left the rails,” said Mary Hodges, who was on the A train. “No doubt. We were in the air. I’m pretty sure we scraped the sides of the tunnel wall. But I couldn’t swear it.”
“We were going fast and all of a sudden I felt this big bump, like it went up in the air and rocked side to side in the air, off the tracks,” said Carrie Courogen, of Washington Heights. “I flew up off my seat and onto the ground. It came to a screeching halt. We saw sparks. It smelled so bad, like burnt rubber.”
“A couple of people tried to open windows or doors to get out. We were just sitting there and no one tried to tell us over the intercom,” she added. “We had no idea what was going on. Finally after ten minutes the conductor gets on and she’s like, ‘We have a derailment, we’re coming through the cars.’ It was very terse.”
“I landed on my butt in the middle of the car, the lights went out and people freaked out,” said Ritch Duncan, 44. “There was a four foot gash in the floor. People were discussing getting on the tracks, others were warning of the third rail. The main things I was afraid of then were other people panicking and smoke which we started to smell.”
http://gothamist.com/2017/06/27/a_train_mta_possible_derail.php#photo-1
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
We usually get these alerts only in the event of blizzards and hurricanes. Now my company is declaring a subway emergency. @NYGovCuomo pic.twitter.com/ND9zbMtXf7— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) June 27, 2017
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
On the bright side, the new South Ferry 1 station opened today! Ceremony was canceled, however.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
i like that cuomo's mentions are just "fix the subway" now
I call on all New Yorkers to make their voices heard and join me in opposing this terrible legislation.— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) June 26, 2017
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
for your evening
http://gothamist.com/2017/06/27/subway_derailment_blues_harmonica.php#photo-1
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
NYC infrastructure just crushing it right now pic.twitter.com/yAwVRXZIMT— Max RN (@MaxRivlinNadler) June 27, 2017
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
yeah a sewer main beneath the building I work in (W 26th + 11th) broke last night so there's been no water here all day
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
Here's an old favorite: The NYC cigarette geyser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1yN0ldPWYE
― jenkem street team (carpet_kaiser), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link
in a just world this would drive down property values
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 20:49 (six years ago) link