Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

I made it in via bus and 3 trains, wimps.

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L = fail
G = fail
B48 -> JMZ -> walk ~1 mile = win

B67 + M + D + F as E

But first I'm making bastard jambalaya w andouille. Sadly, out of shrimps.

-- Laurel, Wednesday, August 8, 2007 1:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

girl, we know you got a bike, GET PEDALING.

4-5-6 still not running, so i dont know if it's even worth bothering to try to get up to the UES yet?

i had no problem with L. F was really backed up but still got me to work. now i am angry because i'd much rather be home getting ready for 6 am departure to buffalo tomorrow.

between this morning and B*adrum, WORST NEW YORK SUMMER SINCE '77

8-8-07, never forget!

it's a damn-you-hadda-be-there urban legend.

No bklyn bound ACE.

God damn the L for being the one running fine, I could be at home right now with the dogs.

i don't know if i bother trying - it sounds like the L is running but i imagine i will be fucked at union square.

Yeah I think you're right.

We failed to give enough props yesterday on Sea Serpent Day so now they're running amok in the tunnels.

Number 7 to Times Square then Number 1 one stop to 34 Street and then I walked downtown.

have fun in your 100-degree afternoon, new yorkers

Where are you now in your travels, Tracer?

white city!

Lisboa?

MTA > viceland > blogger's sense of entitlement

Wait, you live on the 7 line?

I usually take the E or F at Roosevelt Avenue.

eeww it's supposed to be that hot here today? i rly don't know how much longer i can do this. it's gotten to the point where i can't SIT DOWN IN MY OFFICE with HEADPHONES on. i'm actually afraid the humidity will ruin my headphones. it's driving me crazy. where the fuck did the days of central air go? HUH?

I went back to Queens last December, Chris, remember? Or maybe I didn't tell you.

I'll be taking the 7 to Shea for tonight's game (if anyone wants a drink in Jax Heights around 11, talk me into it)...

No, welcome back!

I am not leaving the goddamned air conditioning today.

morbs, after arriving at the office

http://images.worldcupblog.org/ira/P_Rodney_Dangerfield_1.jpg

this summer has not been bad at all, people, stop being so dramatic

i know it hasn't been that bad but listen i'm on the top floor and it's ALWAYS RIDICULOUS humd inside, much more hot and humid than it is OUTSIDE! i HATE that!

i think it's worse than last summer tho

The Fourth Avenue / 9th Street N/R/W platform was a FUCKING TREAT. The air was raising bruises on people.

this is why you never live on the top floor, surmounter

(i live on the 2nd-to-top :D)

GABBNEBD HOW DO I GET TO UES

ARE 4-5-6 TRAINS RUNNING

this is why you never live on the top floor, surmounter

This is why you never live in New York, even.

I am working from home with liv rm AC on -- it is puny but keeps the room totally livable if I wear shorts & don't move too fast. It's kind of a treat, actually, and will give me time to run out my dry cleaning, errands, etc today!

im gonna try to go in now :/

there must be a few buses to choose from if the 456 is down linds

Bell-- no 456 as of 11:45

http://gothamist.com/attachments/jen/2007_08_ihaz2.jpg

I just walked into work with such a massive messenger-bag sweat-sash across my shirt that people awwwwwed at me like an infant.

We should all be praying that terrorists don't ever discover the secret to making it rain FOUR inches.

this summer is more humid but last was by far hotter. it hasn't been that bad. i still wish i'd not been able to get to work, though. instead i'm cranky and i yelled at the new girl.

Hour of rain brings city to halt, C'MON BIN LADEN

i was actually wondering if the rain wasn't a good cover for them to shut everything down because of some supposed terror plot.

I dunno -- they seem to have been pretty consistent over the past years about, you know, any kind of rain, simultaneous air-conditioner leakage, excessive urination, or unpredicted dog-drool shutting the whole thing down.

i was only half an hour late; took bus. amazingly angry crowd.

of course our phones are fucked up at work again, like they are after any major storm.

i dunno man i didn't think last summer was that bad. there was that hot 10 days or something. i erally don't know i get my heat and humidity confuse.d

yes, top floors -i went to a friend's on the first floor the other day and it was so friggin cool. ugh

i took the L to the R, which was stopping at 57th & 7th ave, walked over to madison, took a local bus up 20 blocks. not too bad and i probaaably should have done that a few hours ago. shrug

i hope they fix it by tonight though.

I hope I don't have to take a ferry to Shea Stadium.

Amid the commuter havoc, M.T.A.’s website, mta.info, shut down. It was the second time in several weeks that the website was not able to function during a transit crisis. The last one was during a minor blackout on the east side of Manhattan several weeks ago.

Haha I am working from home!

this summer is a notch warmer on average than last year, despite the absence of sustained ridiculous heat, but it's nothing like '05 (or '02 (or, especially, '99))

reminds me of this NYT graphics classic, from 2018:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/09/nyregion/subway-crisis-mta-decisions-signals-rules.html

Let us now praise famous delays

https://www.amny.com/transit/week-of-hell-nyc-subway-disruptions-july-2024/

https://files.mta.info/s3fs-public/inline-images/011022_BRC%20Existing%20Conditions-01_0.png

this would be so sweet :(

I have a vague memory of this going all the way to the east side of the bronx.

The concept for the IBX dates back decades. The Regional Plan Association in 1996 initially proposed a “Triboro” line, which would connect Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx over the Hell Gate Bridge. Hochul scaled back the idea in 2022, proposing the line as a Brooklyn-Queens connector only.

I think dealing with Amtrak on the Hell Gate would be too complicated.

I guess the claim is that the planned Penn Station Access project would make the Bronx connection unfeasible, but I dunno. I think only two of three tracks over the bridge are actually heavily used and there's room for a fourth.

That said, while the Brooklyn and Queens sections run perpendicular to and connect many subway lines, a theoretical Bronx section mostly runs parallel with existing lines, so the main advantage seems to be the Bronx/Queens connection.

https://i0.wp.com/welcome2thebronx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_0454796A053C-1.webp

Those Bronx lines are pretty far apart - but yah, if the new Penn Station Access stations are completed as planned (and shown in gray on that map) then maybe there's some redundancy. Probably the bigger question is where exactly the tracks run and whether anyone will plausibly walk to the stations.

But I do think the Bronx-Queens-Brooklyn connection is pretty compelling - not to mention a subway link to Randall's Island!

Took the subway home from Penn last nite, boarded the back car and a guy in a horned demon skull mask got on at 42nd st & sat down next to me. He was constantly sticking his hand down his pants and started blowing coke on the train. It was like 8 pm.

NYC is... alive? "back"?

But I have to admit this made me slightly uncomfortable.

What is “blowing coke?”

Got on one of those soon-to-be-decommissioned orange-and-yellow cars the other day, which I enjoyed.

Some kind of weird A train switcheroo this weekend where it runs on the F line and ends at Bryant Park.

I've been back I new york and commuting on a mixture of the Q train and the east river ferry for a while and I just want to say I think public transit is lovely, and those two services in particular (the Q and the astoria line on the ferry) are outstanding. it's falling apart and it looks like shit but my experience of transit is better than 10 years ago!

platform barriers are starting to go up at my station (flushing) and i am flabbergasted at how cheap and bad they look

ours haven't been painted yellow yet but basically this

https://pix11.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2024/03/subway-guard-rails.jpg?w=900

hahahaha

https://gothamist.com/news/the-nyc-subways-electrical-equipment-is-so-old-it-frequently-explodes

https://gothamist.com/news/a-state-of-collapse-how-the-mta-put-riders-on-the-fast-track-to-ruin

gothamist with some mta infrastructure stories today

🫡 metrocard 🫡

Rip my my metrocard

I had no use for you but RIP anyway
End of an era

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IhilcddEjg

All kinds of delays tonight