Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

they're running so many trains on the l line now. during morning rush hour, they're going once every minute or so, which seems to be leading to congestion.

and i have to admit, i've been pretty lucky in terms of delays. nothing worse than waiting for 3 or 4 minutes between stations, which is no big deal.

I never saw all that gross stuff on the E train mentioned above. Maybe people were riding on the Jacob's Ladder undertunnel ghost train version?

The ACE is nasty as hell man. The A train always smells like someone put a bunch of hobo rags in front of a fan and the whole time it's blowing in your face.

youre fucking crazy dude i take that train all the time and it doesnt smell like anything

like not even "its not that bad burt" literally that train has no smell except normal train and subway smells

The best part about the A, I think, is that it goes CRAZY FAST between Manhattan and Bk. Way faster than any other train I can remember being on. I definitely feel like the cars are hurtling through the tunnel like a Chinese dragon in a bad cartoon, and I always enjoy that.

I love the announcners on that thing. NEXT STOP, CROOKLYN! Sure beats the L train's "please stand away from the closing doors. boom boom"

the A is my favorite train cause it goes everywhere that i go

based on my daily commuting experience, A > C >>>>>>>>> F

though the one C conductor who wishes us a happy day and hopes we enjoyed riding the C, "the best subway line in the system," is pretty rad

i love both the A and the C but i gotta say whenever i ride the 4 5 6 it makes me feel like im in a different city

I hate the 4/5. 6 is admissible only because no one wants to take the local so it's not too crowded.

Laurel otm about the 6.

Re: Conductor announcements. Best things I ever heard them say were
"Attention passengers: we are being held in the station due to a delay in service"
and
"Thank you for your inconvenience"

i dont know about the crowding i just mean that the 4/5/6 feel like future trains to those of used to taking the a/c

also, from brooklyn bridge/city hall to grand central in two stops (on the 4/5) is a kind of magic

There's an uptick in track repair? always feels like the same enormous fuxup 52 weeks a year to me.

omfg last year the L-4/5-2 combo nearly killed me.

waiting for the L in manhattan to take me to the G at 4am every night this week has been a TREASURE

Catching the G at Court Square isn't bad because they're basically always there. Anywhere else after 10:00 pm and you might as well sleep in a cardboard box somewhere until the morning.

Court Sq is almost intolerable now during the morning rush because there's only one small stairway for EVERYONE, thanks to the construction. The crowding leaving the G station is infuriating.

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the a train entrance i use at 14th street is kind of a little side one with only one gate. last night a crazy homeless guy was purposefully blocking it by hugging the metrocard reader. as people lined up behind me i was like 'cmon dude' and was considering physically shoving him aside. he looked up at me with bright insane eyes and remnants of something unpleasant in his beard and blurted out, 'you're a big fucker!' and stepped away.

after i went through he leaned back on the card reader. i could hear the next guy arguing with him but i don't know what happened because my train was coming.

The ACE is nasty as hell man. The A train always smells like someone put a bunch of hobo rags in front of a fan and the whole time it's blowing in your face.

The best part of the ACE is then getting off at West 4 and going down to the BDFV platform in the middle of summer. OMG... nasty doesn't even cover it. :P

I usually just get out at W4 and walk the rest of my way when it's a really hot and humid day rather than face that lower platform. AND they opened a dunkin donuts on W3rd near Sullivan a few months ago. Hooray.

BTW.. NYC Transit survival skills: learn to use your elbows and you'll be fine.

Lyra I join you in celebrating the Dunkin Donuts over by Thompson, not just for easy access to bad donuts, but because the DD ground coffee in the stores is somehow better than the DD ground coffee sold in supermarkets.

getting off at West 4 and going down to the BDFV platform

Lyra I join you in celebrating the Dunkin Donuts over by Thompson, not just for easy access to bad donuts, but because the DD ground coffee in the stores is somehow better than the DD ground coffee sold in supermarkets.

I thought I was the only one who could taste the difference! My guess is the stuff in the stores is just fresher or something. I've been in love with DD coffee since college, we used to drink it originally because it was closeby and better than dining hall sludge coffee and I kind of got hooked. Playing with my wall E toy and DD from Thompson at my desk this summer:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3256/2661673635_eb1a517d73_m.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3212/2662587240_afce8b3495_m.jpg

and with a Pearl River chopstick ;-)

wddll

that lower platform at W4 is like my second home. That which does not kill me...

wddll

WTF is wddll?

Also I had no idea that W4 was such a secret ILX nexus. crazy.

Dear D train: You suck. Thanks for stalling out this evening, messing up my carefully timed commute to my train home.

On the bright side, fuck going to the gym for a few days, I ran like crazy and made it from the uptown CE platform in Penn to my train with like 30 seconds to spare. Weaving through that crowd is like playing hockey.

I thought this revive was gonna be about this article

Hahaha Lyra I think the joke was "What Dunkin Donuts Looks Like."

W4 seems like a secret nexus of all things, really. I am going to be a jerk and start referring to it as "downtown's own Columbus Circle."

P.S. It's true, there is no place that "beer-flavored Doritos" sounds like a worse idea than on the freaking subway

Hahaha Lyra I think the joke was "What Dunkin Donuts Looks Like."
I'm starting to hear an Afghan Whigs song with these lyrics. Although I can't reallly hear exactly what they would be, maybe nabisco will write them, like he did for "BLT" on The logic of the setlist

With that title, I mean.

i'll warn you
if hungry
i'll eat the weight of ten strong men

tell you a secret
they shared a donut once or twice
she loved him
he loved food
went back for seconds a couple of times

f train breaks down every night
this must be what dunkin donuts looks like

Thr F was monstrous yesterday morning

Took nearly 2 hours to get from Greenpoint to Union Square. If I were driving I'd be near Albany by now. and this is -before- the service cuts?

it is lol to me that when waiting @ the 3rd ave. L you can smell dunkin donuts wafting down to the platform.

third ave L is a travesty and sure sign of the laziness of the american. fuckers can't walk to either union square or first ave? get real.

right? most useless stop ever.

literally 1 block from the easternmost exit @ union square!

need Ave B stop

:(

xp

or shift 1st ave to a and then put a line that goes all the way down to essex/delancey f/jmz

lol, you don't think we're getting any new stops in our lifetimes w/ this alleged state budget crisis? I'll be amazed if we see that 2nd Ave subway before 2030.

i don't think tza had any notion that was actually possible morbz don't worry.

lol!

or let's just all meet on 14th St after work, w/ shovels.