Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

Is it just me or does that mtauser person in the comments sound looney-tunes?

"MTA should cut back more. All lines to bad areas should be cut...No need to have the train running to a lot of locations it is now available in as well as the bus."

"New York City only needs a transit system for 1/10th of the footprint it has now. Most of the locations on the map are locations one wouldn't even want to go to."

I...uhh...

https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/1306/t/4418/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=3443&;tag=mtashirt

I dunno, to anyone who doesn't already know the context, that shirt seems like something a fratboy would wear

http://secondavenuesagas.com/2010/05/28/with-service-changes-mta-refreshes-its-map/

not sure I like the new park-green, but at least they put staten island in a box

Oh no, I LOVE that "pea soup" green. Will have to look at the complicated parts in more detail later.

Maybe instead of making design changes for the new map they could've saved some fucking bus lines.

I dunno, can't blame the budget woes *entirely* on the MTA, and either way they had to change the map to reflect the line changes

saw the new one for the first time when I was on the W today (which now doesn't exist according to its own map)

the olive green looks even less green IRL?

http://secondavenuesagas.com/2010/06/21/under-new-load-guidelines-transit-set-to-cut-more-service/

I've stopped taking the L in the morning, it's impossible and dreadfully unpleasant. Go and stand on corner and wait for cross-town bus -- it takes like 4 times longer but is at least compatible with my quality of life.

I'm loving how the new orange line is now the "BDFM" though.

changes actually made some stations spell out "FML" before they changed it

Most overnight buses in Brooklyn die on Sunday.

I've stopped taking the L in the morning, it's impossible and dreadfully unpleasant

L Train Dubbed 'Most Romantic' Subway Line by Craigslist Love Gurus

Ways to commute from Spuyten Duyvil to midtown:

} metro-north - Prestigious but lifeless
} express bus - best for sleeping. The quietest borough to borough commute
} bus to the subway - half price but crowded even during off-peak

the olive green looks even less green IRL?

for real, it looks beige. looks pretty bad

it looks like the parks are just big clumps of dirt

Can we take a minute to talk about the Lexington Avenue-63rd St. station? It is so fucking cavernous and so far underground and every time I use it I feel like I'm stuck in some sort of early 1970's version of purgatory. It's amazing that it's so big and used for just one line! Also, apparently it didn't open until 1989 but looks/feels like it was designed much earlier. I mean, those fucking tiles, oh my GOD! And also the way the signs above the (neverending) escalators are designed and how dirty they are; the whole thing just seems so surreal to me. Do stranger stations exist?

This is the F station, by the way.

it's not particularly useful in 2010, but it's going to be when the second avenue subway is finished; it will then serve as a Q stop (the Q is gonna be re-routed to the UES and this will be a pretty useful Q-F transfer.) that half of the station has already basically been built and they're just waiting for the second avenue subway.

it's also being used to get the LIRR to grand central for the east side access project.

but I agree, it's a really strange place. feels like an abandoned mine or something.

I thought this thread bump was gonna be about this though:

http://secondavenuesagas.com/2010/07/09/fare-hikes-could-include-metrocard-surcharge-cap-on-rides/

my new brooklyn-to-midtown commute kinda suxx compared to my brooklyn-to-wall st commute. getting on at grand central and transferring at union sqaure during rush hr is foul

ugh, I hated going thru GC at rush hours last winter.

I really hate announcements referring to us as "customers" instead of "passengers."

yeah that rubs me the wrong way too

cuz it reminds you we're paying for this shit

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/07/13/2010-07-13_mta_plan_for_limited_unlimited_metrocard.html

I guess 90 is the magic number. this is a really, really bad idea.

sure, why would people who LIVE AND WORK HERE wanna GO OUT ON THE WEEKEND????

or this?:

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/07/14/2010-07-14_mta_plan_250_for_singlerides.html

one-trip rides are the best place to raise fares - hits tourists and infrequent users instead of people who depend on it. also gives people more incentive to buy more than one ride at a time. this would be infinitely better than limiting monthly rides.

being dumped on Hoyt-Schermerhorn platform this morning by rerouted F, I simply screamed "NO ONE CAN HEAR YOUR FUCKING ANNOUNCEMENTS!"

Saw an Asian lady reading a Chinese newspaper a few days ago and there amidst the black and white Chinese characters were two color pictures of Grace Kelly from Dial M For Murder. Might as well have been in 3D for the eyepoppingness of it.

I was taking the 1 uptown last week and it skipped from 168th to 207th, missing all the stops in between that are in walking distance from my apartment with nary an announcement. I was really pissed.

how do you guys stand waiting down there when it's 120 f, and the train's been delayed for an unknown amount of time

blech

I HATE that!!! Why do they keep doing that, like just skipping stops?? Is this normal? My Q turned into an R unexpectedly and I missed the bus because it took 20 minutes longer to get to Manhattan, and I already had to walk so much fucking farther than I should have because the list of upcoming stops was glitching out and listing the stops in the wrong direction, so by the time I realized where the B transfer was the doors had just closed 3 seconds prior...

how do you guys stand waiting down there when it's 120 f, and the train's been delayed for an unknown amount of time

blech

But yes, I hate that. I hate when I make a brisk but relatively comfortable walk to the station through the hot air outside and then have to stand there with my slightly elevated metabolism in the hotter air of the station while the platform gets more and more crowded and the train is nowhere in sight.

No way man that's my favorite part of the subway. And when the train pulls up, it's one that doesn't even run on that fucking line, and you get to make the exciting decision of "Where will this E go next!!! Should I get on it??"

Uggggggh. My commute is now L to Un Sq and then 4/5 uptown. US is a traffic jam of reatards AND the 4/5 area is a fucking OVEN. It's unbelievable. I'd rather wait 20 mins on the L platform than be stuck behind someone who can't climb the stairs from the 4/5.

It really makes me feel for the elderly and/or infirm, they have no other options than to struggle through the subway system and I'm not unsympathetic but DAMN when you miss your train by .7 seconds in August it's enough to make a person forget every compassion.

You know the other great thing about the EZ-bake oven platform is that it really brings out the funky terrarium aroma that has permeated the subway system in recent times.

it's kind of amazing how hot the turnstiles are at my stop

Laurel, I feel better to know that I am not the only that experiences rail rage like that.

There is some great Nabokov quote that I'll never be able to find about there being no greater hate than that for the broad back in front of you in the unmoving queue.

esp if it's texting

Nabokov very ahead of his time

shameless

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/24/2010-08-24_an_mta_sideswipe_riders_stunned_as_agency_releases_plan_for_whopping_130_monthly.html

wow, that would be closing in on my car payment. (tho of course there's gas and insurance etc. still, tho. no wonder i couldn't afford to stay in nyc.)

not actually gonna happen

I wd literally jump 'stiles if that happened

I'm pretty astonished at how inefficient the MTA is