Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

There are a lot of buses that run every 30 mins after 9, then stop at 12.

You don't expect much from NY, do you?

the B68 runs every 9 minutes on weekdays at 11 pm, B35 every 7 minutes, B16 every 20 minutes. in what other american cities could you expect to have so many bus routes running at that frequency late night on a weekday? that's downtown rush hour frequency somewhere else.

I'm not trying to troll you, really, I just don't think it's really that hard to get around this city if you know the schedules, stops and are sorta flexible. getting from park slope to kensington late at night might require a transfer or might be a bummer w/ service changes, but that's not a trip the system can be built around. how many people need it?

I mean, the service should be more frequent and reliable, it's true, but blame politicians / people for taking public transit for granted / constantly bitching about the MTA while not really paying attention when the state takes money away from it. but even in a world where it were better funded, there would sometimes be some late-night services changes, and your ideal bus route might not exist.

what the fuck have they been fixing on the G line for the last 5 years?

tbh I don't know if there's something particularly wrong w/ the crosstown line tracks. it's a priority thing on some level, g has the lowest ridership (by a good margin) so it's always the easiest the justify shutting down, either for work or for budgetary reasons. at the same time it serves a unique purpose and has no express tracks (which would allow more flexibility in the trackwork) so it's always gonna be extra unpleasant when it is shut down.

been taking two g trains, switching at bedford-nostrand, several times per week for the last 3-4 months. weeknights, weekend days too.

this is why brooklyn needs this: http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/05/07/streetcars-for-brooklyn-a-new-life/

What really pisses me off is when they don't even mention the truncation of the line til the last stop.

http://www.straphangers.org/statesub11/

congrats j/z

I'm not sure I buy '70% of passengers on the 7 get seats at most crowded point during rush hour'.

NYT has chairman of the MTA saying that it could take up to 8 hours to shut down the system. BULLSHITIACO! You shut it down instantly in the blizzard, pretty much, so what's the difference? There will be lolz if hundreds of thousands of oblivious shoppers are stranded in Manhattan at noon tomorrow.

Fuck the MTA up the ass with a slow G train.

they didn't shut the system down during the blizzard, the blizzard shut them down. if they're organized and prepared for this, there will be fewer problems a week from now.

8 hours in total doesn't seem that ridiculous if they're bringing every single train back to its yard (some of them are going to be going in the wrong direction when that decision is made).

I dunno why the narrative always had to be 'the MTA is out to screw me' - do you really want them running trains w/ flooded stations underground and potentially deadly winds above ground?

iatee, present!

I'm just confused as to how you can frame something like this as 'the MTA is out to get me'

this is pretty shitty, a large hurricane could cause serious damage to the system and being as cautious as possible is prob a good idea at this point. there are examples of the MTA being poorly run. this is not one.

just wait.

lulz

WAIT FOR THE RATS

The mayor said he expected the transit system would be shut down sometime Saturday afternoon. He said it was unlikely buses, subways and trains would be available again until Monday or later.

good grief. i'll be in NYC this weekend -- but now i'm wondering if it's such a good idea

haha mark s have you seen this?!?!?

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/08/25/2011-08-25_giant_rat_killed_by_pitchfork_in_marcy_houses_is_believed_to_be_.html

WAIT FOR THE RATS

really though, i am not in ny atm & imagining all of this relies on using a huge bank of images culled from disaster movies & demolition manesque dystopian futures & sci-fi mutant rats etc etc. the way it unfolds in my imagination is just terrifying. canal st under 6 feet of water is crazy to me.

fucking ay man, this has me hella pnoid now
they shut down the parks, no shows.

if the 40mph winds aren't starting til early Sunday, this is classic Cover Your Ass excess.

mets pretty much have to cancel saturday's game without any transit

Yeah they're banging the drum so hard that my wife's sister (who lives right on the wburg waterfront) wants to come stay with us TONIGHT. It might not even be RAINING tonight!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/nyregion/mass-transit-shutdown-for-irene-is-complex-job.html

cry me a river

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/nyregion/new-yorkers-warned-of-possible-electrical-shutdown.html

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said that mass transit was “unlikely to be back” in service on Monday. The mayor also said that electricity could be knocked out in Lower Manhattan if Consolidated Edison to shut off the power pre-empt the problems that flooding could cause for its cables.

lol @ morbz taking over every single NYC thread to complain

tbf he started this one to complain

plus ça change ...

I didn't know morbz started threads...

he hasn't been in the Queens thread since NYC went hurricane-apeshit, though.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6210/6086067149_5b269e882c_z.jpg

that is like those photos by the la photographer dude who photoshopped out all the cars

Have to admit that I am enjoying these Vanilla SkyAbre los ojos photos of famously crowded famous places in NYC.

haha I wonder if some indie filmmaker took advantage of it

ps something to be bitter about if you wanna be bitter: 2ndavesags: 'As of earlier today, MTA said folks with unlimited ride MetroCards will not get bonus days because of system shutdown.'

WAIT FOR THE C.H.U.D.s

Also reminds me of a sequence in ILB favorite What Mad Universe, by Fredric Brown.

My current unlimited card expires today, it just so happens *nonchalantly examines manicure*

Buses in New York City are expected to be the first form of mass transit that will be restored, but Mr. Walder had no timeline for their return to service. The lack of subway service makes it difficult for drivers to travel to depots to begin operating the buses.

Why don't they just take a bus there

UPDATE: As of 4:30 p.m. the MTA will begin restoring limited bus service in New York City. Full route-by-route details about service restorations will be provided in the Service Status Box at left when available. Restoration will begin in Manhattan and the Bronx, followed by Queens and Brooklyn. Conditions in Staten Island continue to prevent restoration of service at this time. No fares will be charged for service provided today.

http://mta.info/

Noooo, I don't want to go to work tomorrow. Bloomie's advice: take a cab or walk. Always with his finger on the pulse vis a vis the travails of the common New Yorker.

Hahahoohooohoooahahah yeah right.

Why are you hectoring him for reasonable statements? /iatee

Buses running on Coney Island Ave.

VPlain, there is a Mets doubleheader tomw at 4:10, but I don't know if I can get there. (Libraries closed?)

I'm very much hoping the libraries are closed, but I guess they're not gonna announce anything until tomorrow morning.

As much as I'd love to root for the Mets, a free tomorrow would be a windfall in terms of packing.