Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

I missed the whole rattan-wicker seat era. Wonder what that was like.

i dimly do... i def remember the fans near the car ceilings.

Cuomo's advisers have urged him "to ride the subway on more than one occasion, according to two knowledgeable sources. The governor has demurred. One explanation has it that the image of a “passive straphanger” doesn't align with the governor’s can-do persona." https://t.co/Nei3BInA01

— Laura Nahmias (@nahmias) September 10, 2018

important question: has any delay in the history of the MTA ever been caused by people failing to USE ALL AVAILABLE DOORS? because it seems to me like people are always using all available doors, just every door is bullshit

yes, we need to run 30 yards and find the more available door

they need to change that to "hey idiot, if you are standing inside the car and blocking an available door, move out of the goddamn way so people can occupy the massive wedge of open space you are bottlenecking"

no way man, gabbneb *earned* that space by the door

Multiple lols

they need to change that to "hey idiot, if you are standing inside the car and blocking an available door, move out of the goddamn way so people can occupy the massive wedge of open space you are bottlenecking"

This would be a good idea for an annoying subway ad!

they need to change that to "hey idiot, if you are standing inside the car and blocking an available door, move out of the goddamn way so people can occupy the massive wedge of open space you are bottlenecking"

― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Monday, September 10, 2018 10:37 AM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what is this "massive wedge of open space" on the subway

massive wedge of gathered humanity maybe

Andrew Cuomo, the man we are supposed to hold our noses and vote for because he's "tough" enough to manage our rough and tumble state government, is scared to ride the subway because he knows a normal New Yorker would heckle him https://t.co/4NG0m8q5II

— Italian Alex Pareene (@pareene) September 10, 2018

varies by line, but on the 1/2/3 I regularly find spacious open cars transformed into cramped misery by a formation of headphone-wearing oblivious columbia undergrads, luggage-toting tourists, et cetera, acting like the random bits of flotsam that turn a cool mountain stream into a mighty, sweaty reservoir

maybe in brooklyn or after 9 pm

Good morning. A cord was pulled on a train at 14 St-Union Sq causing delays and changes in service. We know this is frustrating. Please know we are working on fixing things within the next 5-10 years with our Fast Forward Plan. ^CB

— NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) September 13, 2018

lol?

i see u Cuomo

this isn't the subway's fault so much as subway ridership, but if someone has headphones in and is typing furiously on a laptop, on the subway, DURING RUSH HOUR, while visibly stressed to the point of panic, this is not a time to strike up a conversation with them!

icymi

http://gothamist.com/2018/09/17/monday_subway_ughway.php

so...

http://gothamist.com/2018/09/17/cuomo_subway_third_term.php

Yet Another Worrisome Subway Statistic: More People Are Going on the Tracks

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/nyregion/nyc-subway-tracks-delays.html

die for yer phone

missed this on Friday

http://gothamist.com/2018/09/21/ceiling_collapse_barclay_center.php

Nearing an end to his 8th year as Governor, Cuomo says dealing with the MTA is "what's next" for his infrastructure program.

— Ben Max (@TweetBenMax) October 4, 2018

Riding my bike is a great way to avoid the subway, but I don't love occasionally riding over puddles of mystery liquid

crossposting... I saw all these Jokers at 18th Ave last Saturday

TMZ reports that while filming a recent scene inside a Brooklyn subway station, extras were locked in a train car and allegedly denied their break after two hours of work. "The extras started banging on the subway doors asking to be let out because people needed to use the bathroom, but they were kept inside and eventually resorted to pissing on the tracks through the small spaces between cars," TMZ writes.

http://gothamist.com/2018/10/10/joker_movie_extras_subway_trapped.php

Southbound A and C trains are running with delays while we perform urgent track maintenance at Fulton St.

you're so extreme
you can be so temperamental

found as i was clearing out a recent notebook, quotes from before and after a "showtime" performance a few months ago: "nobody moves, nobody gets hurt" and "Positive, not negative - everyone was safe, no one got kicked in the face." these were delivered amidst the rest of the genial carnival-barker's "step right up" tone, so they are threatening only in their literal content, but what a bizarre world we live in.

ive heard those guys (i never look up from the paper during showtime)

Joe Lhota's work is apparently done. The chairman of the MTA announced on Friday that he has resigned from the position, a surprise to many after he insisted last month that he wasn't going anywhere. The 64-year-old Cuomo appointee was rumored to be considering an exit, after facing scrutiny for potential conflicts of interest posed by his numerous side gigs. He will continue to serve as chief of staff at NYU Langone Health, director of the board at Madison Square Garden, and board member of the Friends of the Brooklyn-Queens Connector.

In a statement, Lhota told the Wall Street Journal that he accepted the public position last year for the "sole purpose of halting the decline of service and stabilizing the system for my fellow New Yorkers." While it may not feel like it, that ambition was in fact achieved, according to a man who has not ridden the subway since President Obama was still in office, five hundred thousand or so years ago.

"Joe Lhota has dedicated decades of his life to public service culminating in two tours of duty at the helm of the MTA," Cuomo said in a statement that referred to the mass transit system as a war zone....

http://gothamist.com/2018/11/09/joe_lhota_resigns_subway_all_better.php

fine I'll run the MTA

— Italian Alex Pareene (@pareene) November 9, 2018

The MYmta app is reliable except when it isn’t

NEW YORKERS: please, just fix the subway
DEBLASIO: I've got a transit plan, and I think you're going to be big [stifling smirk] fans of it
NYERS: is it goddamned fan boats
DEBLASIO: [inaudible due to fan boat noise]

— actioncookbook (@actioncookbook) November 13, 2018

lol

Ugh. I for one welcome our new passengers on the already dicey 7 train

The city has zero plan to move people via anything other than private or for-hire vehicles, so we're entering an era in which a small amount of snow will combine with an already crushing amount of traffic to just shut the whole system down. https://t.co/AHef7Br5Ut

— Doug Gordon (@BrooklynSpoke) November 16, 2018

This is Amazon Cuomo's MTA: Fare hikes, service cuts, and a potential death spiral. This is what he's trying to disclaim responsibility for.https://t.co/vEZQEopIfc

— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) November 19, 2018

Good luck NYC

https://welcometotwinpeaks.com/wp-content/uploads/twin-peaks-metrocard-mta-dale-cooper-759x500.jpg

https://welcometotwinpeaks.com/wp-content/uploads/twin-peaks-metrocard-mta-dale-cooper-759x500.jpg

F train had it all today: 25-minute delay, an unannounced "police activity" at 2 Ave, a 30-minute argument btwn a man and a woman featuring both "n***er" and "f***ot"

I sang a loud chorus of "Helluva Town"

New 7 train signals working great I must say

Opted to take bus from Manhattan instead

This whole charade is laughably bad, but I'm sticking with this. https://t.co/FPTni6An6J

— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) December 13, 2018

RUMOR MILL this morning: Cuomo may announce L train shutdown is unnecessary later today

— TransitCenter (@TransitCenter) January 3, 2019

lol

that "teams of donkeys will pull the train" idea was a humdinger, eh?

I've said it before but a very Cuomo way to do this would be to delay the shutdown just long enough to lose the federal Sandy relief funds then do it anyway. https://t.co/5wUJkuGYXU

— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) January 3, 2019

the mta equivalent of "my resolution is to go to the gym regularly in 2019'

UPDATE: One source says Cuomo may switch from the 1.5 year total L train shutdown timeline to one that would last 3+ years, by partially shutting down one track. https://t.co/is7ZEfyHUf

— Gothamist (@Gothamist) January 3, 2019

Just unbelievable

ffs. wonder if he'll also finally admit to being in charge of the MTA, but only during alternate nights and weekends or whenever the L is closed.

i'm pretty sure RotoRooter would fix that tunnel