Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

Off-topic somewhat, but has anyone here ever been on a train that hit a "jumper"?

Two weeks ago (June 23) my F train hit a jumper at Jay St. The guy died. It was the second time I've had that experience. Don't know exactly how common this is, but it seems that in such cases if no details about the victim come forth immediately the story gets buried.

I was on a train that hit someone while I was in the front of the front car. It wasn't a jumper, but someone who was on the tracks trying get out I think (there was some map of subway accidents that I found that had a listing for it at a much later date).

It was pretty shocking - motorman laying on the horn, swearing, slamming brakes, the sound of the impact, more swearing, yelling that it was 'a 12-9', police walking us off, me and my friend choosing to stare straight ahead to avoid seeing anything gruesome.

This eve the train I was on laid on the horn super hard at one point coming into a station - it still really unnerves me.

I just use Google or Apple maps when I want to find the fastest route fyi.

But Kickmap is what I use for a subway map-specific app because it is more legible and attractive.

Yeah, with this last incident the brakes were slammed on abruptly and there was an unnerving delay of five minutes or so before the first announcement - "we have a possible injured passenger at the front of the train," this repeated about 10 times before they finally evacuated us through the car second from the front.

i promise not to do it during rush hour

it's a pretty distinct experience for sure

i think i mention upthread about when i jumped on the tracks to help get a woman who fell in out. that's distinct too.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEpY1DtUMAAy8PI.jpg:small

otm

managing expectations

MTA reconsidering an age-old New York tradition: eating on the subway https://t.co/Y9kX6kgBd2

— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 19, 2017

Guys, you got bigger things to worry about https://t.co/fJDXySN4sP

— David Marcus (@davidimarcus) July 19, 2017

another derailment today

http://gothamist.com/2017/07/21/q_train_derails_brooklyn_mta.php

and these jokers

http://gothamist.com/2017/07/21/cuomo_lhota_subway_de_blasio.php

Exact quote @NYGovCuomo "it's the city's legal obligation to be funding" the subway system "even though we stepped in on a moral level."

— Zack Fink (@ZackFinkNews) July 20, 2017

that's a simple lie, right?

Str8 up

Andy's moral level is lower than the 1 platform at 191st Street.

who will sponsor YOUR station?

Cuomo now announcing that he will allow corporations to sponsor subway stations, much as corporations can sponsor public park upkeep

— Dana Rubinstein (@danarubinstein) July 27, 2017

anything to prevent raising taxes on the rich. https://t.co/gpcHnzsMiE

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) July 27, 2017

"due to a police investigation at AT&T 59th street..." etc doesn't really seem like an appealing look to me but who knows

also would pay peanuts comparatively

i was late for my drinks w/ j0rdan tnite bcuz there was "a person on the tracks" way uptown

1) turn up the juice so he/she frys on the third rail
2) run express trains over the corpse

2 train uptown was fucked this afternoon, so I got to sit underground with a group of punks who were talking about how they wanted to beat the shit out of me. Apparently my gut is my main weak point.

Got out at next stop to the A, and that was fucked, too. I've had worse commutes this summer.

gut is my main weak point too tbh

Ditto

good luck, BdB

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-propose-taxing-rich-pay-subway-repairs-article-1.3388722

https://www.chariot.com
van ridesharing for hipsters, what could go wrong

most of the comments ive seen on the blas tax hike scheme took it as a chess move to get cuomo to propose something else. who knows but cuomo then suddenly came out in favor of congestion taxes for cars entering manhattan which he'd never touched with a ten foot pole before. no doubt by the time any such plan actually gets enacted it'll be down to a nickel toll (or be wiped out by reductions on the tolls at crosisngs that already have them) and none of it going to the subways.

Just heard a new announcement: MTA had to "isolate" a car of my F train for "unsanitary conditions." I cannot even begin to imagine ...

— OracleofCalamities (@bethmachlan) August 23, 2017

I can begin to imagine

they should do that more often

Bond villain style, Cuomo's hidden new cars found

http://gothamist.com/2017/09/06/prototype_ghost_trains.php

http://gothamist.com/2017/09/11/monday_l_train_delay.php

yeah i missed a doctor's appointment this morning bc of this shit (saw L platform, said hell nah, hurried to M station, got fucked)

So when there is a doublewide stairway my assumption is that the protocol is that the far right hand side is the ascending side ( when one is at the lower level) and the left-right side serves as a passing lane. Sometimes people will try to sneak an endrun when this lane is empty but that seems dodgy.

Or do the two sides around the center rail actually constitute two separate stairways, each with its own up and down lane?

Asking for a friend

I think your first description is correct, but people often fall into the second pattern, especially when a crowded train has emptied a lot of passengers into the station.

oh, the anarchy at the ludicrously under-staircased Whitehall St station

chinavision otm

fucking up the wage slaves' Sunday

http://gothamist.com/2017/09/17/power_outage_causes_subway_chaos_on.php

my gal got locked down at jay street for about two hours

"I mean, I hear from people who say the tracks look cleaner or the service seems better. So I'm hearing it already."

Andy tot ready for Trump

http://gothamist.com/2017/09/20/here_try_these_rose_colored_glasses.php

17,000 minor defects

http://gothamist.com/2017/09/21/no_subway_blood_no_foul.php

As Jimmy Breslin used to say, beautiful.

“We’ll be able to see what can be done, what can’t be done, if we’re unsuccessful in getting the full amount of money,” Lhota told the MTA board Wednesday.

He vowed not to “spend one penny more” than what’s now in this year’s budget.

Lhota refused to say what work could be derailed....

“I hope the mayor will come up with the money to work in partnership with the governor, because it’s a city-state issue,” said Larry Schwartz, a former Cuomo aide and MTA board member.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mta-cut-836m-subway-repair-work-de-blasio-doesn-pay-article-1.3526227

my Q was effed

http://gothamist.com/2017/10/16/the_f_is_effed_again.php

http://nypost.com/video/heres-how-much-new-yorkers-hate-slow-walkers

i guess i'm a real new yorker now

obvs point perhaps not so obvs for non-urban dwellers but it's not so much that you are walking slow as it is that there is a limited amount of sidewalk/stairs/crosswalk and you are actively and unnecessarily blocking the flow of traffic. I don't mind slow walkers if they hover to one side or the other; my main issue is motherfuckers who take up the whole sidewalk with a conversation or walk three deep. Or, worse, sections of town in front of hotels, bars, restaurants, etc where people treat the sidewalk as if it's a patio and set up a human wall in the middle of a walkway.

in general, it's just that lack of situational awareness is exhausting for anyone who has to make their way around the city in a hurry. You can assume everyone is late to something (the MTA has seen to that) so maybe please don't crawl or sprawl out in public space

the phone-starers who stand right in front of stairways and turnstiles are the fucking worst

we all know when we missed a train specifically because of one specific stairway slow-walker

power move

https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2017/10/31/mtas-use-of-emergency-order-raises-eyebrows-115380