Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

Gas leak in JH shut down 7 train

near brawl on the F tonight!

let it go, 62yo italian-american dude

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

What's goin on up there? I've never had a reason to take the Q that far since the new stations opened.

http://gothamist.com/2017/04/17/illicit_brucker_gct_tour.php

knives out at the mta, what's going on?

welp, looks like i chose the right personal day

http://gothamist.com/2017/04/21/mta_subway_power_out.php

you are correct

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/nyregion/new-york-subway-signals.html

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).

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

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

G down for some reason at nights now

bookmark

http://www.straphangers.org/complaints.html

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

glad i missed this one

http://pix11.com/2017/06/05/passengers-stuck-on-f-train-with-no-lights-or-air-conditioning/

I was on a D at exactly the same period going the exact same route

further apocalyptic imagery

http://gothamist.com/2017/06/06/harrowing_a_f_train_video_nightmare.php

surprised people weren't kicking out windows tbh
this is gonna happen with the wrong combination of people in a car one day and somebody's gonna get killed

we're definitely moving toward a casualty event

In case u missed
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/nyregion/how-did-the-subway-get-so-bad-look-to-the-c-train.html

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

MTA is asking employers to tell their workers stay home or work odd hours. pic.twitter.com/J4T3pueqJW

— Danielle Furfaro (@DanielleFurfaro) June 12, 2017

past few months have been markedly worse. system is beginning to grind down where even jaded residents are feeling it.

i'm starting to add a half hour for most trips just in case

on the weekend, an hour

I was a half hour late to something i left a fifteen minutes early to on sunday so i probably should!

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!

courtesy is contagious and so is whatever that guy who is taking up three seats has

Those signal overhauls may not get done in that 100-year timeline

http://gothamist.com/2017/06/14/subway_signals_mta_repairs.php

Craziness on the downtown 6 train @MTA! Watermain break... not today Satan!!! 😧😱 pic.twitter.com/NiBqfwqy2Y

— Nef B (@dreambelieve34) June 14, 2017

Took me a minute to parse that as not being water gushing in through the window

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

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

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...."

“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

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

On the bright side, the new South Ferry 1 station opened today! Ceremony was canceled, however.

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

for your evening

http://gothamist.com/2017/06/27/subway_derailment_blues_harmonica.php#photo-1

NYC infrastructure just crushing it right now pic.twitter.com/yAwVRXZIMT

— Max RN (@MaxRivlinNadler) June 27, 2017

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

Here's an old favorite: The NYC cigarette geyser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1yN0ldPWYE

in a just world this would drive down property values

nothing but crime can do that

sweet, sweet crime

I'm in

the 10 months i lived on the LES (94-95), i was mugged twice

maybe i should look for an apt next time by trying to get mugged

Hahaha

I was just in LA/SF for a week and saw more sketchy stuff than I have in the last 5 years in NYC

SF always seems scary to me! Its homeless are so untrammeled