Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

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— NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) July 19, 2019

Knicks front office and MTA should switch jobs; can't do anything worse than what the others have been doing already

RIP 123456

oh I kinda missed that, mercifully

"We did not know exactly where our trains were" is a beaut

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/MTA-Reports-Delays-on-Slew-of-Train-Lines-512963371.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Y0x1jLkLg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAIHGL5X4AEGkIf.png

Multiple impacts of raindrops upon track

Here's a key part of the report.

Congress ordered a study of why the US wastes billions by spending 5x as much per mile of subway track as every other country in the world.

The @USGAO interviewed track builders who told them that cost comparisons are hard. So they didn't do it. pic.twitter.com/9lWe68LOId

— Brian M. Rosenthal (@brianmrosenthal) July 22, 2019

The MTA hired three firms to clear subway drains.
Two donated to Cuomo’s campaign during the same period, including a fundraiser at a luxury suite at a Mets game.

We look at the governor’s donations from MTA contractors with @jdavidgoodman @agustin_NYT https://t.co/sGgPrnWpL3

— Emma G. Fitzsimmons (@emmagf) July 29, 2019

I’ll have more from this story later but from what I’ve been told, this denial by the governor is at best half-true and may be completely untrue in many cases. pic.twitter.com/oSEx3eJe2w

— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) July 29, 2019

Police Apprehend Man For Repeatedly Failing To Pay For Subway https://t.co/YE4fVKmFdk pic.twitter.com/syYdjwqiVU

— The Onion (@TheOnion) July 29, 2019

Broken rail on 7 line

what a moment

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/09/27/breaking-judges-allow-city-to-start-the-14th-street-busway

(pickups and drop-offs would still be allowed)

isn't 90% of the city's traffic rideshares or cabs anyway?

i would put something like 35% for delivery vehicles whether UPS-style or rigs

apparently the answer is: laptops

https://www.thecut.com/2019/10/what-do-guys-keep-in-their-backpacks.html

i switched back to a backpack abt five years ago on physical therapist's orders. but they also told me i should have no more than seven pounds of stuff in there... so once i throw in my planner, pen, camera, maybe a cell charger and a hoodie for if i'm going to some ice-cold interior, i'm pretty much done. on days when i'm teaching, i have my tablet and a little notepad and i can feel the extra weight in my lower back. and i still am hyperconscious of taking up train space.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/nyregion/Miss-Subways-NYC.html

Later, when Ms. Greenberg was asked about her agenda as the new Miss Subways, she said, “I’m going to release rabid wolves into the subway.”

I hate the ads on the trains and station walls. Some bloated MTA fuck wanted to build a pool in his backyard so thousands are exposed to this bullshit

hmmmm interesting theory

thrilling use of the subway's limited resources

are you...fucking....kidding me?? they’re installing cameras in front of every single turnstyle at the fulton stop in manhattan right now pic.twitter.com/6QbirJSVSg

— Rosemary Donahue (@rosadona) November 1, 2019

Big Andy is watching you

Jump turnstile and sleep

if we have to choose between a surveillance nightmare and hundreds of heavily armed cops everywhere, i'd take the surveillance nightmare. but who am i kidding? we're obviously getting both!

That is so messed up. Although easily could be taken out with baseball bats.

There is a recent video of a woman in chile climbing up a tall pole and disabling a street surveillance camera and then the crowd below her catches her. It's great.

https://imgur.com/gallery/BvdCL1C

in other subway news, i'd appreciate it if people fortunate enough to have a seat didn't then lean forward, put their elbows on their knees, and stick their heads in my crotch while playing candy crush or whatever

I was worried by the guys with very pointy flag poles but it all acme out for he best.

Someone didn’t even do a rough cost-benefit analysis on this. It costs between $50,000,000 and $75,000,000 a year to pay for 500 extra officers. I doubt they will prevent 20,000,000 additional incidents of fare evasion to break even...

— TekGuru3000 (@tekguru3000) November 2, 2019

who is
The
Bryant
Park
Vampyre
?

Daniel Ventre iirc

This guy in the purple is mad relatable. Lmaoooo pic.twitter.com/Go0r1kjcCT

— Justin Bobby (@OvertimeJBobby) December 15, 2019

I’m getting a little pushy in the mornings when douchebag reading his phone won’t step out of the fucking way when the doors open. I’ll give him a little shoulder on my way out.

guy in the green in the back looks like Adam Neely

yoooo these guys bombed an entire train exterior
https://www.instagram.com/p/B6GOLmfpBi2
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/check-out-amazing-total-subway-graffiti-takeover

So the bus drivers all switch routes tomorrow?

today’s driver told me it happens four times a year

keep dem routes fresh, friend

so this morning’s commute

Queens seems to be a much bigger delay clusterfuck than Brooklyn

https://gothamist.com/news/mta-rings-first-monday-2020-citywide-signal-meltdown

i had a mentally ill dude on the train on saturday who completely lost it and was going bench by bench, car by car, screaming at every other person "IGNORE ME? YOU IGNORE ME! HOW YOU IGNORE ME!?!? IGNORE ME?"
he skipped me somehow, perhaps because i wasn't ignoring him

https://abc7ny.com/5818890

So here’s a thing: when you are standing inside the car holding the rail above next to or above the seats and somebody gets up from his seat when the train stops and says “excuse me” and stands waiting like a Dr. Seuss character until you move, since technically you are between him and the door, although there might be another defender behind you, so you improvise a space but maybe this person should have taken a step or two into the middle of the car and left you out of it

at least they've waited until the train stops and there's a place to go

with the people who get up while the train's still moving it's like where, exactly, do you expect me to go

^THIS^

with the people who get up while the train's still moving

tbf if i didnt do this at Broadway-Lafayette, i may not make it thru the doors in time

a truly Dantean stop

oh yeah, i used to have a commute that required me to switch from the downtown 6 to the BDFM, which meant many days started with a dangerous sprint down two flights of stairs

for the Bwy/Lafayette to the 6, step one is position yourself in the first/last car as appropriate
step two is stand at the station BEFORE your stop and head for the door, step out, let new passengers out and then make yourself the last person in so you're by the door when it closes
step three: don't take the escalators, head to the stairs behind them

I have to get off the F and get to Mercer St, so i take the elevator unless it broke