Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

tunnel has water in it is what I hear

hmm, express bus vs f train tomorrow (as only line running) seems like a tossup. I guess I just have to bite the bullet and go in super early.

you will have to be aggressive to get on the f, but you're prob better off than people who don't live in forest hills, because by the time the trains get to western queens it's gonna be hopeless. I would go that route unless the rumors I hear about carpooling ends up being true.

I have a potential carpool set up just in case

http://www.mta.info/sites/default/files/pdf/HurricaneRecoveryMapOct312012.pdf

and bloomie sez the 4 East River bridges restricted to vehicles with 3 or more people for Thursday and Friday, 6AM to midnight.

ugh just spent 40 mins in a bus basically going nowhere. didn't want to walk but no choice really.

yeah friend who works in times square basically had to walk from times square to long island city before he finally got a cab home. hoping the F tomorrow will alleviate things a little but I'm not hugely optimistic.

I wonder why the 7 isn't running from queensborough plaza to flushing? I think I'll try and bike it tomorrow--even reverse commute, I'm not sure about the buses.

With schools out, the libraries are going to be packed with kids (if they somehow find out we're open--ssshhhh).

no idea why, but it sure makes my morning less fun

I'm gonna have to walk from wburg to penn station on friday I think : (

Debating just walking from here to work -- it could be about the equivalent of a car ride (2.5 hours)

VP, saw big sign on front of my branch, but tried to block it so kids wouldn't see

vp you should work for the brooklyn library -- their website is down, so know one will know that they're open tomorrow

idk where you work but 2.5 might even be an underestimate xp

I would prob just take the subway if I were you

Just this second got QBPL email "We're Open to Serve You During the Storm Recovery"

Haha, me too. And why are they promising homework help? There's no school so there shouldn't be too much homework and we are no doubt going to be short staffed.

you should give them the wrong answers as revenge

I do that sometimes by mistake, and then the next day they come to me and reproach me and tell me that its my fault that they got their homework wrong . . . If I wanted to spend my afternoons doing kids' homework for them, I would have had my own kids. At least then their perfect answers would reflect well upon me.

You should refer those kids to Random homework googler memorial thread

anyone have a map of this shuttle bus route? don't need til next week, probly

ok:

http://www.mta.info/sites/default/files/pdf/nyct%20sandy%20day%201_rev2.pdf

not good enough imho

Got on the F at 71st Ave with no problem a little before 7am. It filled up on the way (running local) but it really wasn't bad. More worried about getting home -- thinking about even possibly walking all the way to 34th/HS just to make sure I get on.

omg

http://instagram.com/p/RfTaDNykQP/

fkin A!

why don't they just walk across the bridge? jeez

omfg

people go to ridiculous lengths just to show up at work when I'd guess at least a good portion of these people's bosses would understand if they stayed home

My boss isn't going in, so....

Had a lovely bike ride to work this morning. My boss encouraged my coworker to try to make it in (against my better judgment) from South Brooklyn. After 2 hours, he had made it to the Brooklyn Museum (not sure how that's even possible that it was that slow). I told him to go back home.

At Roosevelt Ave you have to wait upstairs before you are allowed to go through the turnstile down to the platform. It's like trying to get into a trendy nightclub, only instead of the velvet rope there is a twisted strand of crime scene tape.

all the nightclubs I go to use crime scene tape

... And the bouncer in an on duty cop.

lol iatee

any reports on return trips?

(manhattan to brooklyn or queens)

I took the N from herald sq to qbp and walked back to sunnyside. I got a seat but the N was def crush load at and after times sq.

going to work it was crowded but not crush load, so I was surprised at the difference. maybe a lot of people didn't even know the subway was running this morning but took it on the way back.

Only report is I went about 5 to Roosevelt to check it out and the people all of a sudden started piling up behind the turnstile. The authorities said something about "stopping" for a while, it wasn't clear whether this meant no trains or full platforms.

Weird thing is it if you didn't know ant better it looked like people lining up for a funicular

loling at everyone running out of gas

I think I remember those 'nightclub' lines from the short transit strike.

I do not go to ridiculous lengths just to show up at work, esp when bldg is closed.

MTA saying 4-5-6-F tunnels are 'close' to operational... all they'll need is power!

Is there some kind of partial E service? On the F tonight at Roosevelt Ave the train conductor said "transfer for the E train" but maybe that was out of habit

does not appear to be the case

7 is up from 74th to flushing tho

east river ferry lines should be bad on manhattan side, not brooklyn side, at this time of day right?

I mean, theoretically, but who knows. are you still in wburg trying to get back? I would just walk.

yeah - it would be nice to take it to 34th since leaving from penn station. I guess I should just give myself a lot of time

you can walk to the station and keep walking if it looks like a mess

It should be manageable at this time of day, just allow at least double the time you'd normally allow. My F commute took about an hour today to do what normally takes maybe 25 minutes. Going back last night around 8:30 pm was a breeze though, even got a seat.

I am slowly floating towards manhattan

just walked by park on 34 and saw
a huge line - maybe for the ferry???

Line round the block for f at 63 and lex