Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

you might as well hook the MTA up to one of your veins

like even if they hiked the fare to 2.50, you would need to ride the MTA more than 52 times a month to make it worthwhile

the average unlimited ride use is 59 times a month tho

it's gonna be $104, I think

the real answer is to blow the MTA up and start again

MTA might not be an A+ operation, but the biggest problems = albany.

Uggggggh. My commute is now L to Un Sq and then 4/5 uptown. US is a traffic jam of reatards AND the 4/5 area is a fucking OVEN.

ooo ttt mmm

my office is in midtown now instead of Wall Street, I've switched up my commute eight different ways to not transfer in Union Square

Grand Central is pretty damn bad too (can't avoid that one, it's where I get off)

working from home is the best

Hi, dmr!! I get off at Grand Cent too, I walk through the main room to get to my build instead of going outside. A little beauty never hurt a day.

Aargh, Continental Avenue track fire

surely the flooding from the hurricane will put it out.

*fingers crossed*

THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER PASS BETWEEN CARS

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/man_falls_from_train_dies_GJcrJrhN46Dl5aYtpDF8LN

A man was killed by a 6 subway train in Manhattan early Saturday morning, according to MyFoxNY.com.
It happened at the Lexington Avenue & E 96th Street station on the Upper East Side.
1010 WINS reported that the man had tried to pass between cars of the train. He apparently fell and was dragged by the train.

ohhhh god

Every time something like this happens I think about being that actual person, and trying to go between the cars, and actually falling and realizing that you were probably about to die and actually being dragged by a subway car knowing your life was about to end in a matter of seconds

hey guys the Q train only comes once a half hour and they're cutting back service left and right but at least you'll be able to talk on the phone like a douchebag

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_localnyc/six-subway-stations-to-get-wifi-in-months-the-rest-to-follow-soon-says-mta-boss-jay-walder

not that this will not come in handy at times

but come on

"For too long the subway system has been an information black hole in our lives," Walder said in a statement.

Haha what
thank god for internet saving us all from total void space

can you imagine the jabber? "hi honey, I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be"

"I just checked the mta website and the train is being held in the station due to a delay in service."

now what will happen to the tradition of everyone pulling out their phone when they get to the Manhattan Bridge to text "I'm on the bridge"

Overheard on Times Square 7 platform:
"A skillful conductor can manipulate those doors so that they are either in or they're out"
"I'm not that skillful yet"
"Soon you will be. You will be the master, you will be the SENSEI!"

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/10/07/2010-10-07_mta_set_to_approve_subway_bus_and_commuter_train_fare_hikes.html

$2.50 a ride

The monthly is what I care about. I need my unlimited card, not a limited monthly.

well enjoy your $104 monthly

fuck this -- let's tax cigarettes an extra $5 instead

lets execute the mta board

I shrug at the raise, but I heard they were EITHER going to offer an unlimited for $104 or a 90-trip card for less, which wd fuck ppl who like to leave home on the weekends.

lets execute the mta board

mta board sure isn't responsible for killing congestion pricing, isn't in control of how much dedicated transit $ albany decides to steal and...it's run by relatively competent people! not that MTA is blameless but this was basically inevitable.

$104 monthly card is still the best transit deal in america.

ps I steal all my arguments from benjamin kabak (secondavenuesagas.com/) but there seriously isn't a better informed dude on this subject and everyone should read that blog regularly

but yeah w/r/t 'best transit deal' - I mean, ask people in the bay area or LA if they'd be willing to pay...$3.50 a day...for an extensive 24/7 subway and bus system. one where you can go from the rockaways to the bronx for the same price as going anywhere else. I have friends in the bay area who have a $8 daily commute - and they don't have an unlimited pass to show for it.

although $104 sucks and def is gonna hit me, the fact that they're keeping it unlimited is 10x more important in the long run.

$104 monthly card is still the best transit deal in america

yeah, but, what with new york being so far and away the most public-transport-utilising city in america, isn't it self defeating to start fucking with the ridership like this? there were some pretty good discussions on ilx amid the fare increase debacle last year about the cyclical nature of keeping costs down (leading to increased ridership and revenue) versus increasing costs (lower ridership, more transport on the road, less efficient buses, etc etc). it should be ringfenced to some degree because it's so overwhelmingly and positively used by the people in the city.

i know nothing about this kinda thing so going to check out the blog link btw, i accept corrections on the above.

it's not 'fucking with the ridership' it's 'trying to pay the bills'! there's nobody at the MTA who's secretly gleeful that they get to screw the riders, and it's not like they get raises w/ every fee increase.

like the large majority of transit operations, fees only pay a fraction of the costs, so money is either gonna come from the state/new taxes or from ridership. the state underfunds the most public-transit-utilising city in america - this is a political problem.

oh sure, and i'm not laying anything on mta as i have no idea how things work; i just mean that it's unfortunate that, as something that might have the sheer volume of participants to avoid a lot of the difficulties of financing a sprawling, comprehensive network, it isn't able to do so neatly. i have no idea whose fault this is.

http://www.streetsblog.org/2010/10/07/fare-hike-2011-its-official/

anyone else get fucked by the N/Q today? was stuck on a train under the east river for 30 mins before they figured out they couldn't progress further cause of a broken track, and took the train in reverse. buses were filled so I ended up walking across the qb bridge, as did quite a few others.

I ain't never walked across SHIT, that would be a sign for me to stay the fuck home for the day.

http://www.streetsblog.org/2010/11/18/cuomo-on-mta-raids-transit-funds-are-fungible/

during the campaign it seemed possible that cuomo's MTA bashing was just posturing, but so far it seems that no, actually he's planning on being pretty horrible for NYC transit

hate the bastard

but hey, we might be able to take the #7 to Secaucus in ten years.

yeah it's a pretty stupid idea but it has to be put in the context of 'NYC just trying to get those billions of fed $ that NJ just threw away'. at this point a C+ transit project that has funding is better than an A+ one that doesn't. but anyway, it doesn't look like it's much more than a pipe dream at this time.

wait what fed $ did we just throw away?

Gov Chrischrischristie pulled the plug on a new NY-NJ rail tunnel

omg I can't even begin deal with what a fucking douchebag he is

http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/11/12/quotes-chris-christies-wife-told-him-to-axe-hudson-tunnel/

that stupid woman earned her place in history

ed koch bridge

I never knew the 59th Street was a racist, closet-case reactionary bridge.

but no trains run over it surely?

grisly F/G delays this morning

http://gothamist.com/2010/12/13/police_investigating_another_train.php

I was at Union Station the other night when this happened:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/train_suffering_39bd6X65KyYQ50xtFobNGJ

I didn't actually see it, but friends of mine who had been at the same event and left minutes later than us were there -- one of my friends tried to pull the guy up when he fell but he was completely stuck and pulling only would make it worse.

I always wonder how much it would cost to set up a plexiglass wall w/ automatic doors. they have it on one line in paris, but that's the futuristic computer-driven line...so it's easy for the train to line up perfectly w/ the doors.

obv it would be unfeasible system-wide, esp w/ the elevated trains, but maybe someone could think up a way to do it for cheap. it's just walls and doors ffs. but then again, nyc subway is getting countdown clocks 20 years after the rest of the world, so this would be 2120 technology regardless.