Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

on the weekend, an hour

I was a half hour late to something i left a fifteen minutes early to on sunday so i probably should!

My J back from the airport just ... stopped at the Norwood Avenue platform, no action for a few minutes, then an announcement that there's a problem with the doors, driver (?) comes through the cars with another technician, fiddling with each door for a sec, more time passes, new announcement that because of an electrical problem they can't open the doors or really, do anything. Eventually the doors open and we're all dumped out onto the platform, no further announcement, train is just sitting there. Will it leave and be replaced by a working train? Or should we just give up and figure out the bus home from here? Thankfully this last part was only five minutes or so but in total we were probably at this one stop for fifteen minutes. All anecdotal of course but it seems hard to avoid the conclusion that we are all living in the Inferno of Dante or perhaps of DOOM. Better yet, add a smile!

courtesy is contagious and so is whatever that guy who is taking up three seats has

Those signal overhauls may not get done in that 100-year timeline

http://gothamist.com/2017/06/14/subway_signals_mta_repairs.php

Craziness on the downtown 6 train @MTA! Watermain break... not today Satan!!! 😧😱 pic.twitter.com/NiBqfwqy2Y

— Nef B (@dreambelieve34) June 14, 2017

Took me a minute to parse that as not being water gushing in through the window

Things got so bad on a delayed subway this AM that people jumped from the emergency exit and walked along the track https://t.co/DJZYDFsyJT

— Tom Gara (@tomgara) June 20, 2017

The Riders Alliance is not impressed. "The problem is absence of leadership," they say. pic.twitter.com/5NEKIdzgKT

— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) June 20, 2017

lol I know someone who works for Riders Alliance She was recently ON a train that stopped for so long that passengers walked through tunnels to escape. She posted to facebook like "IRONICALLY this is the first time I've had to evacuate from the MTA!" and the first comment was, "Hey, I can recommend a good organization for that...."

“I will vouch for reports that the train left the rails,” said Mary Hodges, who was on the A train. “No doubt. We were in the air. I’m pretty sure we scraped the sides of the tunnel wall. But I couldn’t swear it.”

“We were going fast and all of a sudden I felt this big bump, like it went up in the air and rocked side to side in the air, off the tracks,” said Carrie Courogen, of Washington Heights. “I flew up off my seat and onto the ground. It came to a screeching halt. We saw sparks. It smelled so bad, like burnt rubber.”

“A couple of people tried to open windows or doors to get out. We were just sitting there and no one tried to tell us over the intercom,” she added. “We had no idea what was going on. Finally after ten minutes the conductor gets on and she’s like, ‘We have a derailment, we’re coming through the cars.’ It was very terse.”

“I landed on my butt in the middle of the car, the lights went out and people freaked out,” said Ritch Duncan, 44. “There was a four foot gash in the floor. People were discussing getting on the tracks, others were warning of the third rail. The main things I was afraid of then were other people panicking and smoke which we started to smell.”

http://gothamist.com/2017/06/27/a_train_mta_possible_derail.php#photo-1

We usually get these alerts only in the event of blizzards and hurricanes. Now my company is declaring a subway emergency. @NYGovCuomo pic.twitter.com/ND9zbMtXf7

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) June 27, 2017

On the bright side, the new South Ferry 1 station opened today! Ceremony was canceled, however.

i like that cuomo's mentions are just "fix the subway" now

I call on all New Yorkers to make their voices heard and join me in opposing this terrible legislation.

— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) June 26, 2017

for your evening

http://gothamist.com/2017/06/27/subway_derailment_blues_harmonica.php#photo-1

NYC infrastructure just crushing it right now pic.twitter.com/yAwVRXZIMT

— Max RN (@MaxRivlinNadler) June 27, 2017

yeah a sewer main beneath the building I work in (W 26th + 11th) broke last night so there's been no water here all day

Here's an old favorite: The NYC cigarette geyser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1yN0ldPWYE

in a just world this would drive down property values

nothing but crime can do that

sweet, sweet crime

I'm in

the 10 months i lived on the LES (94-95), i was mugged twice

maybe i should look for an apt next time by trying to get mugged

Hahaha

I was just in LA/SF for a week and saw more sketchy stuff than I have in the last 5 years in NYC

SF always seems scary to me! Its homeless are so untrammeled

Riders Alliance protest outside Cuomo's office tonight at 6, for those who do not marvel at the MTA's efficiency

http://salsa.ridersny.org/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=96026

lol cuomo

“It will no longer be a tortured exercise to do business with the M.T.A.,” Mr. Cuomo said

Due to a hanging sign at 14 St-Union Sq, the following service changes are in effect:

That was fast. https://t.co/YY4PZv1VVo

— Ethan Chiel (@ethanchiel) July 7, 2017

so wait, apparently Hopstop is super outdated now?? What app(s) are people using these days?

citymapper for directions and kickmap for the legible map when drunk at time sq at 3am

i just stand there and wait analog style

pvmic

NYC subway works well for me

Off-topic somewhat, but has anyone here ever been on a train that hit a "jumper"?

Two weeks ago (June 23) my F train hit a jumper at Jay St. The guy died. It was the second time I've had that experience. Don't know exactly how common this is, but it seems that in such cases if no details about the victim come forth immediately the story gets buried.

I was on a train that hit someone while I was in the front of the front car. It wasn't a jumper, but someone who was on the tracks trying get out I think (there was some map of subway accidents that I found that had a listing for it at a much later date).

It was pretty shocking - motorman laying on the horn, swearing, slamming brakes, the sound of the impact, more swearing, yelling that it was 'a 12-9', police walking us off, me and my friend choosing to stare straight ahead to avoid seeing anything gruesome.

This eve the train I was on laid on the horn super hard at one point coming into a station - it still really unnerves me.

I just use Google or Apple maps when I want to find the fastest route fyi.

But Kickmap is what I use for a subway map-specific app because it is more legible and attractive.

Yeah, with this last incident the brakes were slammed on abruptly and there was an unnerving delay of five minutes or so before the first announcement - "we have a possible injured passenger at the front of the train," this repeated about 10 times before they finally evacuated us through the car second from the front.

i promise not to do it during rush hour

it's a pretty distinct experience for sure

i think i mention upthread about when i jumped on the tracks to help get a woman who fell in out. that's distinct too.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEpY1DtUMAAy8PI.jpg:small

otm

managing expectations

MTA reconsidering an age-old New York tradition: eating on the subway https://t.co/Y9kX6kgBd2

— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 19, 2017

Guys, you got bigger things to worry about https://t.co/fJDXySN4sP

— David Marcus (@davidimarcus) July 19, 2017

another derailment today

http://gothamist.com/2017/07/21/q_train_derails_brooklyn_mta.php

and these jokers

http://gothamist.com/2017/07/21/cuomo_lhota_subway_de_blasio.php

Exact quote @NYGovCuomo "it's the city's legal obligation to be funding" the subway system "even though we stepped in on a moral level."

— Zack Fink (@ZackFinkNews) July 20, 2017

that's a simple lie, right?