Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

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

My chief problem is the card always gets a crease or pimple in the stripe, often making 5-10 swipes necessary.

Need the contact style very badly, betting on 2025.

I used the same 12 month metro card for an entire year with no noticeable deterioration whatsoever so tbh I don’t even know how one ends up creased or damaged.

And everyone knows you put them through at walking pace right?

I just have bad pockets, apparently.

And what's strange is some readers have no problem, one swipe and that's it.

And excuse me, now I am at 59th Street and this blue wall is literally blocking the N express line. Yet utterly no explaination why? There is not even basic signage. WTF is this? How can anyone plan their trip “accordingly” with a literal wall like that just being there?!? @NY1 pic.twitter.com/5kt1GW6S0k

— Jack Szwergold (@JackSzwergold) July 30, 2018

Here’s what went wrong on the D, N, and R lines this morning and the actions we’ve taken to drastically cut delays moving forward. pic.twitter.com/T76PRNDddb

— NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) July 30, 2018

xp but when I'm in a rush I am too frazzled and terrified of being fired to painstakingly measure the exact speed of swiping a metrocard, sorry

comments like this are why the subway is among the single most anxiety-inducing things in my life, to the point of having actual anxiety attacks on the train on a regular basis. for another example, I have a very poor sense of balance and the rapid jerking of the subway often causes me to fall, as in literally get knocked off my feet, especially if I'm carrying bags or groceries, which is virtually all the time (my laptop bag alone is heavy and bulky, since it has a laptop in it on top of all my other stuff.). but people yell at you if you "hug the pole." they also yell at you, of course, if you fall. there is no way to win

i feel u on the balance issue. the old C trains actively hurt my knee if i'm positioned incorrectly

i was not suggesting that you painstakingly measure the exact speed of swiping; i was noting that experience teaches *nearly* all of us that super-fast or wicked-slow will not work. there are also other reasons why a card won't work -- i guess morbs uses his as a hanky or something

but if you stand there and repeatedly whip the card at the highest possible speed and become incensed at its failure to work -- as the dude who prompted my original post did -- then i don't know what to say

My card works smoothly on the F line, like shit at the Prince St R/W

not gonna go into my hour-plus JUST USED travails tonight with an idiot booth clerk involved

i still think trying to hide a yearlong track work project is goddamn amazing even for the MTA

http://gothamist.com/2018/07/30/surprise_subway_work_here_to_derail.php

seem to be a lot of 'emergency brakes activating' lately

this happened a few weeks ago to a train i was on when it was about halfway into the station. we sat there for 10 or 15 minutes before someone finally went around and unlocked one door on each car by hand. which would not have been comforting in a real emergency

What a commute I had this morning

Excited for flooding content

seem to be a lot of 'emergency brakes activating' lately

I've been noticing this too! Did somebody turn up the sensitivity on whatever activates them systemwide?

my (exhausted, overheated) hunch that the A/C is out on the 1 more than other lines turns out to be correct

http://gothamist.com/2018/06/15/hottest_subway_guide_2018.php

Just experienced what seemed to be an unnecessary emergency brake activation

“Hell is other people”
No, it’s being kicked in the face by a pole dancing subway performer in a hot car while surrounded by other people

fuckin hate the 1 car with the ac off, seems to be the first car i walk into every day

http://gothamist.com/2018/08/09/clark_street_elevators_only.php

lol

L train shutting down completely between Man and Bk this weekend and also several other weekends in the coming months

I thought the shutdown was going to be total from the get-go