Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

I clicked a bunch just because it's literally impossible that I've never gotten off the A at 23rd street in over 15 years, I just didn't bother to make a mental note of it any of the 175 times.

i have no idea -- probably not very many, tho, considering i've been here nine years

a long time ago i went to some lengths to visit a whole bunch of montreal metro stations

When this challenge is exhausted, the next pinnacle is every entrance of every subway station

Ended up at about 170 but I think that might be a little short, can't remember one-off trips here or there. But not bad! lololol I clicked almost everything just to see what level you can get up to, and it's "MTA Employee."

i gave up after a hundred, this is making me remember one night stands and plays i was in and shit i'd rather not think about

i made sure to visit every station in HK but the thought of trying to do that in NYC fills me with terror and dread

with good reason

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/thewarriors/images/8/8a/Punks.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140123071619

fucked-up R train bullshit

So the N line in South Brooklyn runs on two outer tracks, served by old and decrepit station platforms, with two apparently defunct inner tracks going unused.

Right now at my station they're building a wooden deck over the unused inner tracks, apparently to make a temporary passenger platform while they work on the old ones? Excited to see this happen one day at a time! I should start taking pics so I can get some enterprising ilxor to make them into a time-lapse gif later, obviously.

I hope everyone saw the article that said updating the signal system on all the tracks will take A CENTURY.

the g at broadway has stalagmites as well as stalactites.

a great morning for switch problems going into lower Manhattan

i know you've transported me for a long time
somehow i'm not impressed

oh, G train

http://gothamist.com/2015/09/11/g_train_service_limited_after_thurs.php#photo-1

(nothing to do with the Q/R crawl this morning)

g train last night
a train track fire last night
signals this morning
? this evening

lmao how can the g train derail when it never even fucking runs

when i'm waiting for an F there can be 2 or 3 in a row

I was on the G to Greenpoint right before the one that derailed. Phew

after weeks of incapacity, i finally tried a subway trip to acclimate to motion and see how difficult going to a doctor tomorrow will be
random dude comes on the f train in rush hour splays out on a bench and starts jerking off
the fuck new york
i just got back

when i gave him a "what the fuck?" look he said "don't look at me homeboy"
and it's like, i think you give up the right to complain about people staring at you when you masturbate in public
fairly sure that's in the constitution

why we're a capital of the world, as the Blaze said yesterday.

anyone tried the Hudson Yards 7 terminal yet? that got done "fast," huh?

what's been wrong w u forks? :(

I work in the Starrett-Lehigh building (11th and 26th) so the hudson yards is now the closest stop to my work. I did it yesterday and today. (Lorimer G to Court Sq 7 to Hudson yds).

The station itself is nice, idk if they are planning shops or anything but rn it's basically big and empty. And it's hella deep-- the escalator to the lobby level is one of the longest and steepest I've been on.

If you're headed inland you can exit right into civilization on 10th etc; as for me the walk down 11th from 34th to 26th is boring and bleak, all construction with no real sidewalks, just those safety divider things.

A creep on the 7 this morning got some of his sandwich on my leg. But better mayo than 'mayo' (cf forks)

Jon: spinal injury that started as a herniated disc in my neck then led to what's been diagnosed as a postdural puncture headache and three weeks of debilitating migraines. vaguely more manageable now but can't really comfortably go out of the house yet. seeing a neurologist today.

oh nooooo i'm sorry

you probably can't play dark souls can you

funny you should ask, it's the one thing i did the most while i was convalescing! played through 2/3 of scholar of the first sin lying flat on the couch in a haze of metallic pain as a means to distract.

btw forks there is now a pilot program to get "showtime" onto the sidewalks anfd off the trains.

7 will now be the closest train to the Eagle leather bar.

i would be fine with showtime on the sidewalk as long as it doesn't BLOCK the sidewalks
i love b-boying; i just can't handle people relentlessly fucking with me

I work in the Starrett-Lehigh building

I love that building!

I also checked out the new station. The escalators were disconcerting. The angle of the ribbing on the sides and the small patch of floor that's visible made it feel like I was headed straight down.

you don't get the same effect on the long ones in london because they have advertising oriented horizontally

but on this one there's no advertising and the tiling is parallel to the escalator, not to the horizon, so it's weird!

http://img.geocaching.com/cache/f04a5cd5-d236-4c24-b82a-9211e7a107c9.jpg

vs.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/14/03/2C48AB8D00000578-3233344-image-a-59_1442196286918.jpg

they have these too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h354r8L9UZw

to be clear the nyc subway system is still an embarrassment to a developed country, but it was interesting

http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/13024/14298341_4.jpg?v=8CF7494E2E883C0

it's no dc metro, that's for sure

lol
http://gothamist.com/2015/12/02/classic_l_train_such_a_cut_up.php

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CW60y6eW8AACsF9.jpg

No wonder it took them so long.

they were on an F that turned into a G

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160106/midtown/ugly-penn-station-undergo-3-billion-revamp-cuomo-says

Now I wonder if they could find a way to solve the Amtrak-track stampedes, something about the layout of that waiting area is just so conducive to awfulness. But ultimately I guess you have to announce a track and then have people line up and that's the way it is.

MTA Chairman Thomas Prendergast took to the podium Friday as well, promising to "re-invision" 30 subway stations by 2020. The MTA plans to make these stations "cleaner, brighter... easier to navigate, with better and more intuitive wayfinding, as well as a modernized look and feel." This means more On The Go touch screens, new signage, new lighting.

Rather than close these stations on nights and weekends to accomplish this "renewal"—the Governor described the current approach as "piecemeal"—the MTA will shut down entire stations for an average six to twelve-months per station to expedite renovations. Will your neighborhood's subway station be one of them?

http://gothamist.com/2016/01/08/subway_facelift_shutdown.php

https://www.governor.ny.gov/sites/governor.ny.gov/files/atoms/files/MTAStations.pdf

https://twitter.com/samfbiddle/status/685587011261087745

My local stop is on there and I see zero reason to renovate it. So many better things the MTA could do with the money.

kabak's take: http://secondavenuesagas.com/2016/01/09/cuomo-pushes-mta-technology-projects-but-future-system-expansion-remains-out-of-sight/

riders waiting for their trains will be able to takes calls and connect to the Internet at every underground station.

It's going to suck but I am excited for you all to experience post war infrastructure

L Train Service Between Brooklyn & Manhattan May Be Shut Down For Years

rip

yipes, that's scary.
on the plus side, two extra cars for the G means that i will not have to haul ass as it comes into the station to meet it halfway down the platform

i've come to hate the G. To go one stop on the weekends, two, three Gs arrive at Church between Fs.

Cuomo sounded like a fucking crazy man last week, or a rich dad pretending to understand his kids' whims. "I want to listen to music, make a phone call... I've come to expect that."

would bet money the "shut down for years" option is in some internal study only to provide a "porridge is too cold" benchmark of how long it would take if they did that, versus the more realistic options that would actually be pursued. but yeah cuomo's shit re: transit is forehead-slappingly annoying as always. at least he didn't propose anything as outright stupid and destructive as last year's LGA airtrain scheme, but the idea that his little cosmetic lifestyle adjustments corresponded to a Moses-like shaping of infrastructure and use for riders was laughable.