Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

That reads like a chemical compound

Oh look the candidate was on my train! She’s talking to the other stuck commuters. Debating now what to do — do we walk? Or wait and hope the train comes? pic.twitter.com/nQZMQPkn1B

— Laura Nahmias (@nahmias) March 20, 2018

Apropos of nothing I recall Cynthia Nixon played the role of subway vigilante in a Law & Order reworking of the Bernie G0etz story

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZ8QJZtWkAMIR6f.jpg

glad i'm unemployed

loose or formed? i need a longread on this

where's the poop chart, I'm not googling it at work

ICYMI Friday

Earlier today, we identified a critical fix to the Bergen St signal and made the call to do repairs during midday, with the goal of preventing a major interruption during the evening rush. Unfortunately, rush hour service was still impacted, and we apologize, truly. (1/2)

— NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) April 6, 2018

"no problem, Harry, how could it possibly take that long?"

they apologize, truly, madly, deeply; the train will lay like this forever until the sky falls down on me

this morning the Husky Busker was playing 'creep'

not the tlc song

he's a noticeably better singer now than he was a few years ago, but i don't need to hear that shit at 9am

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2016/02/most-complex-transit-subway-maps-world-tokyo-new-york-paris/470565/

scenes from 145th st/broadway. @NYCTSubway @MTA @NY1 #justalittlerain pic.twitter.com/vUYed8Se6g

— josh guild (@jbguild) April 16, 2018

Times Square wasn't much better

my feet were tragic when i got to the office. currently wearing the pair of crocs I keep hidden under my desk, with no socks

dry and jobless at home here

update: the results have been as expected pic.twitter.com/PADIfLNylq

— brand new season of bosh.0 only on comedy central (@boshj) April 25, 2018

the only good thing about the subway is when a local unexpectedly goes express and people with enormous noise-canceling headphones miss it

god forbid that one might ever be called upon to interact with or pay attention to the world at large

How 2 M.T.A. Decisions Pushed the Subway Into Crisis https://nyti.ms/2KLsdqM

handy guide

https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/05/10/how-the-l-train-shutdown-will-screw-over-each-subway-line/

An elevator is out of service @ every Second Avenue Subway station this afternoon. They began service 1 year, 4 months, and 10 days ago. #AccessDenied @MTA @NYGovCuomo pic.twitter.com/MPRl1w0qQE

— Colin Wright (@cbw623) May 11, 2018

http://gothamist.com/2018/05/15/thunderstorm_causes_commuter_chaos.php

a widdle wain deways the twain

I never realized how much I would miss gothamist.

my new workplace destination is Broadway-Lafayette, and wow i hate it. I got on the D (doesn't take me home) just to get the hell off the platform.

@NYCTSubway Hey this is the situation under ground at Times Square. Please respond. What is up? @ny1 @WNBC @WCBSTV pic.twitter.com/xYbrhqciSW

— Wendy Rich Stetson (@WendyStetson) May 15, 2018

Hi friends. I've obtained the MTA's L train shutdown service plans. They can only run three more trains per hour over the JMZ, and will run approximately 12.5 fewer trains total across the East River. This is gonna be really bad. https://t.co/mym8COIIGq

— Aaron W. Gordon (@A_W_Gordon) May 17, 2018

lots of new swimmers

Joseph Lhota, tapped to fix New York's subways, has quietly picked up several other lucrative jobs. It's a web of potential conflicts https://t.co/lz0hMCCI3d

— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 22, 2018

jeez he gets up early

I might've missed a Q by a few minutes but there were at least 15 minutes between them. The B that arrived was too crowded for everyone to board. Nothing on the website.

— Official Centrism (@pareene) May 23, 2018

the F was hell this morning too

gave up on the L this morning and took the G to the E. The G also took forever and a half to arrive

Some trumpster was asking me if I would rather have money go to fighting MS-13 or money go to fixing the subways. Like that was even something that I had to think about.

icy

MTA spokesman Jon Weinstein responds to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s comments on the subway plan 🔥 pic.twitter.com/Yic59skOBj

— Emma G. Fitzsimmons (@emmagf) May 23, 2018

a former spokesman for Cuomo, who insisted he didn't control the MTA, now works at the MTA, where he insists the MTA is not responsible for the fucking subway

— Official Centrism (@pareene) May 24, 2018

http://gothamist.com/2018/05/24/lirr_subway_meltdown.php#photo-1

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DeWYRNbWsAAGs-n.jpg:small

uh oh

A brief thread: Hard to believe we're down to an average weekday ridership of under 5.6 million, but here we are. This is bad for NYC one way or another. pic.twitter.com/wAkJ0d4YrU

— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) June 18, 2018

PHOTO: Ceiling collapse in subway station at Court St & Fulton St. pic.twitter.com/kdbPtip3Jj

— New York City Alerts (@NYCityAlerts) June 20, 2018

The ceiling just collapsed at Borough Hall. @MTA @ny1 pic.twitter.com/Pmlo9wkEC5

— James Giovan (@JamesGiovan) June 20, 2018

"signs held up by duct tape"

http://gothamist.com/2018/06/21/borough_hall_ceiling_collapse.php#photo-1

When the NYC subway vending machines go down, there's apparently only one guy who knows how to fix them.

His name is Miguel, he lives in Port Jarvis (3 hrs from NYC), & apparently he likes to turn his cell phone off on the way home.

Via William Finnegan https://t.co/7Zbg3mgyMd pic.twitter.com/YFCaCpI9wY

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) July 9, 2018

andy byford sounds like a good dude

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DiZXxLEW4AECw3S.jpg

What if all our infrastructure work costing 1000% of the international average wasn't only due to incompetence but was also part of an organized scheme of corruption and kickbacks? I mean, hypothetically https://t.co/Xt2HzTZlzb

— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) July 18, 2018

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Cuomo now touting the MTA's experimentation with facial recognition technology at bridges and tunnels, and then adds: "They're now experimenting with technology that just identifies a person by the ear, believe it or not" cc @Steph_Beasley

— Dana Rubinstein (@danarubinstein) July 20, 2018

seems right https://t.co/SEhBpvbVZu

— alex pareene (@pareene) July 23, 2018

i keep saying this, but people, including our leaders in government, literally do not understand that the subways carry more people than the bridges do. they do not understand the numbers https://t.co/Y5ameZXrJb

— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) July 24, 2018

i know the metro card readers are shitty and temperamental but peoples' behavior with them is so often mindboggling

you cannot whip the card through as fast as humanly possible (it will even tell you to slow down!)
you cannot move the card one millimeter per second
you don't have to wait 10 seconds after the person in front of you has gone through
show some common fucking sense