Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

gothamist, nypost in straight ripping off benjamin kabak shocker

good luck to me getting to Astoria this morning; the changes on the Weekender map basically say "Just try it."

somebody got hit by the F train today and died

http://gothamist.com/2016/05/05/mta_l_train_nightmare.php

lol

this will not be fun

Times on Wednesday had a "crowded trains" piece incl mention of those "platform controllers" I've been seeing whenever i take the Lexington hell line.

the guys with the flashlights?

yep

they mentioned London closes tube stations when they get crowded, lol

article is reminiscent of 'zone one'

wow even the covens had to move to Queens

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#ServiceAlert: 34 St bound #7 trains local from 74 St to Queensboro Plaza, due to witch problems at 33 St. See http://mta.info

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alDP7r4M7FM

Middle village is in the grip of dark sorcery iirc

For a second there I read that as "Little Village."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eShtZSx4kWc

unpleasant for me

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/05/f-train-express-coming-this-summer.html

not too bad for me out in Little Ukraine

tho i'd prefer to get the hell out

https://www.facebook.com/NewYorkFingCity/photos/a.384422408343161.1073741826.384405841678151/974708332647896/

well after that shitty commute i am going to hatefuck a tunnel on my way home

So I got my motorcycle permit for my 40th birthday, and have been riding my scooter to school every day that it doesn't rain. Sorry, MTA! (No fucks were actually given in the making of this awesome decision.)

Nice, I used to commute to work by scooter from Astoria to the Flatiron district. Loved that ride.

Be careful with just your permit though -- periodically mc/scooter "safety" checkpoints are set up around the city and they'll impound your scooter if they catch you without a mc license (they also check for inspection sticker and current plate registration sticker). I often got pulled over on 2nd Ave just south of the Queensboro Bridge.

Due to an unruly passenger at York St, southbound F trains are running with delays.

Allow additional travel time.

F/G have been fucked for weeks

we all need to get unruly

i'm inclined to agree with you. i predict a riot.

what with the recent "three men save a guy who fell on the tracks" feelgood video making the rounds, i am sorta grumpy that i can't work in "heck _I_ did that" into conversation anywhere but ilx.

Q train ~= bad blowjob

not perfect but still pretty cool?

sloppy, takes forever

https://cwhong.carto.com/viz/6dfca01c-47e5-11e6-9fd3-0ee66e2c9693/public_map

^^^ very cool. Would love to see it incorporate population density somehow, so you can really see where people are underserved... though I guess there are other maps for that.

I think 15 min walk is still pretty reasonable but maybe I'm thinking too much in young healthy person terms.

it seems insane to me that according to that map I am in a subway desert

10 minutes isn't that much. i could hit a passing M train with a tomato from my window and it still takes 5-6 minutes to walk to the station.

Fifteen minutes can be a long time with regards to physical safety, depending on your situation in life. Plus, adding thirty minutes round-trip to a daily commute, over a lifetime, is a lot of lost time with the family, sleeping, etc. Hours a week! We build transit systems in the hope of enhancing everybody's quality of life so it all seems reasonable to me. But maybe it's also something that transit types have come to a consensus on as a good number.

3rs Street & 7th Ave in Park Slope is in a "desert."

15 minutes seems forever during a heat wave

NEW YORK - The MTA is reporting systemwide subway delays in Manhattan due to power issues.

Spokesman Kevin Ortiz says the electrical problems started around 1 p.m. Wednesday at the system’s rail control center. Backup power was being used.

Ortiz said there were no reports of stranded passengers. He says the trains were moving, but with delays.

WCBS Newsradio 880 reported around 2 p.m. that electricity was back on at the control center but residual delays continued.

NYC Transit on the 1 2 3 4 5 6 has resumed with residual delays due to earlier signal problems.We apologize for any inconvenience. Monitor Service Status on this page or follow @NYCTSubway for the latest updates.

http://i.imgur.com/7U6B6Lf.jpg

http://gothamist.com/2016/07/22/one_poop_train_uniting_all.php

i don't get this 'critique' at all

That's not how smells work

Although that is a classically New York bit of complaining while lacking basic understanding about facts of the physical world.

some new yorkers really do think the 20th century was as good as it got for industrial design and mass transit huh?

Yes

Combined with a New York transit exceptionalism that Second Avenue Sagas often points out... where whatever idea gets proposed, no matter how many other systems have it, it'll never work in New York, usually because the population here is comprised largely of destructive maniacs who will smash anything useful to pieces with chains and crowbars, and then become homeless and go to sleep (heaven forfend). No other city on the planet has any similar constellation of problems.

We must not let them sleep. Dear god no.

why does it take 7 hours to get to gowanus from union square

i sorta wish i had a car tbh

booming post doctor