Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

haha i encountered bagpipes man at w 4th st last week.

https://i.reddituploads.com/15bea0cd02e34a4886dea337b3d04d46?fit=max&h=1536&w=1536&s=0745df3b502b05ab5b193557b7d56979

there's nothing up there I go to anymore.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOVWtJzg6dq/

Sadly, over the course of construction, the MTA scrapped some fancy features, including glass platform walls with sliding doors that would have increased energy efficiency and prevented people from throwing trash on the tracks (or jumping onto them).

absolute trash

Popped into my head today: a song performed by some platform acoustic guitar dude, possibly as far back as ten years ago. I suspect if I actually heard it, I would find it to be pretty intolerable coffee-shop earnest-folk jam dude stuff, but in my brain as it resonates it's sounding very hooky. All I can remember: "Cause you know it's a sin, halfway down and halfway out." Not much to go on and presumably I will never hear or find this song again. Kinda content with the version in my head which is sounding more and more Kurt Vile-esque than it ever did in reality. Sorta like Little Pete and "Summerbaby" on The Adventures of Pete and Pete. Ho hum.

Longest commute ever

B train appeared at carroll gardens this morning

not as impressive as if it were an E, but still

transit magic will happen under Mayor Hillary

Yes that was fun. I completely missed a 9am mandatory meeting. Sadly though 2 hours is not even my longest commute ever.

http://gothamist.com/2017/01/06/subway_cell_phone_etiquette.php

lol get 1 headphones, dummy

sb

Silly article - there's an etiquette issue but it's not about preserving some Quiet Car vision of a world made tolerable by people not having phone conversations, it's just that people talk way too loud on their phones. Also um... for those of us on elevated lines there is nothing new about this at all.

The bigger problem IMHO, and where headphones actually come into play, is people playing games or watching videos on their phones.

i have on at least one occasion witnessed someone watching porn on a phone in the subway without headphones

I would vote for a Subway Is Too Damn Loud Party mayoral candidate

http://i.imgur.com/eob0pFl.gif

if by 2017 ppl are still doing this, is that gif gonna make them stop?

gifs are how millennials communicate iirc

Tonight on the Williamsburg Bridge, a guy waited until like 45 seconds before arrival at Marcy to turn on the boom box and declare "This is showtime, ladies and gentlemen" - a couple of bars went by without him doing any stunts and then he sort of declared to himself "waited too long" or something like that, and shut it off. Did he just space out for a while? Was he hunting for the perfect spot on the car?

http://www.mod16.org/imagemacros/emot-iiam.gif

don't look a gift showtime cancellation in the mouth

No I was definitely stoked about that

our fury is justified

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/12/nyregion/subway-complaints-straphangers-fuming.html

https://www.6sqft.com/as-subway-delays-double-cuomo-may-cut-mta-funding-by-65-million/

scruffy presumably homeless young dude lying prone on the subway seat yesterday kept dispassionately yelling FUCK YOU every eight to ten seconds for an hour punctuated by occasional moments of hysterical laughter and "next stop: GUANTANAMO"
at one point someone must've challenged him because I overheard "FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. Not you. Them. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU."
which inevitably brought to mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcuYZCv3cKM

https://medium.com/sidewalk-talk/new-map-demo-how-the-l-train-shutdown-will-impact-your-commute-6a1dc74f65f5#.bppanf144

e.g. east williamsburg to 1st ave by public transport goes from 18 mins to 71 mins

https://transit.sidewalklabs.com/#{"origin":{"lat":40.70641128564592,"lng":-73.9284670949707},"options":{"bus_multiplier":1},"center":{"lat":40.71211783143387,"lng":-73.95443208447267},"zoomLevel":12,"mode":"compare-settings","options2":{"bus_multiplier":1,"exclude_stops":["L06","L05","L03","L02","L01"]},"dest":{"lat":40.73190929073145,"lng":-73.98262023925781}}

that link again goo.gl/QH38DU

link

jfc this is the link and if it isn't i give up

i heard this is amber coffman's fault

Gas leak in JH shut down 7 train

near brawl on the F tonight!

let it go, 62yo italian-american dude

the mosaics t the 72nd and 86th St Q stops are some of best and most wonderfully executed examples of public art I've ever seen

What's goin on up there? I've never had a reason to take the Q that far since the new stations opened.

http://gothamist.com/2017/04/17/illicit_brucker_gct_tour.php

knives out at the mta, what's going on?

welp, looks like i chose the right personal day

http://gothamist.com/2017/04/21/mta_subway_power_out.php

you are correct

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/nyregion/new-york-subway-signals.html

Three major power failures in 18 days, two at rush hour.

80 minutes between 2 stations is my new personal record (Prospect Park/7 Ave on the Q).

http://gothamist.com/2017/05/09/mta_power_outage_at_dekalb_avenue_p.php

B, D, N, Q, R and W service has resumed as of 9:40 a.m., according to the MTA

hahahahahahaha

Con Edison spokesman Sidney Alvarez said there was a "voltage dip." The utility company got no report of a power outage, he said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/b-train-system-flub-throws-rush-hour-subway-commute-chaos-article-1.3149762

G down for some reason at nights now

bookmark

http://www.straphangers.org/complaints.html

lmao the MTA runs fewer trains than scheduled and slows/stops them without reason and thinks this pleases riders https://t.co/5SzSPZlJKG pic.twitter.com/bDiQ1DiIAH

— slackbot (@pareene) May 23, 2017

glad i missed this one

http://pix11.com/2017/06/05/passengers-stuck-on-f-train-with-no-lights-or-air-conditioning/

I was on a D at exactly the same period going the exact same route

further apocalyptic imagery

http://gothamist.com/2017/06/06/harrowing_a_f_train_video_nightmare.php

surprised people weren't kicking out windows tbh
this is gonna happen with the wrong combination of people in a car one day and somebody's gonna get killed

we're definitely moving toward a casualty event

In case u missed
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/nyregion/how-did-the-subway-get-so-bad-look-to-the-c-train.html

a city budgeting vet delivers some castor oil (first of a series)

This isn’t just the subways, you’ll see it in all American infrastructure over the next decade. There was a major build in the 30s, and then again in the 60s. (New York and the whole northeast are especially susceptible to this schedule) Things like bridges are sold under 30 years bonds (sometimes 40) which reflects their useful life. This can be pushed to 50 or 60 years, but at some point, as with any maintenance (like your car), you’re paying more to fix it than just throw it out and get a new one. So since our infrastructure was last really built in the 60's, that “some point” is basically now, where we can slap on all the duct tape we want, but it’s rebuild time.

Of course, there is no rebuild coming. You can call up your local government contact and ask them for the rebuild rates on roads and bridges and watermains and sewers, you’ll soon discover that many are on 200 and 300 years cycles. This isn’t re-paving roads, this is “tear it up and build a new one.” You’ll have to trust me that bridges are only good for 50 years, but common sense should tell you that a road probably needs to be rebuilt more often than every 200 years. We can blame the GOP and tea partiers all we want, but there’s not a single Democratic politician proposing anywhere near the infrastructure funding we need, even if there were, there’s not a single voter out there who would vote for the kinds of tax hikes we’d need to address it, we’re just not close....

http://fusion.kinja.com/how-the-mta-got-so-broke-1795903465