Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

whoever wins gets an all weekend free pass into my narrow cut jeans

dudes that open their legs really wide and take up two seats

Since we've already mentioned farting, when one of these charmers is next to me I usually try to fire one up.

so when will G train be extended? cuz otherwsie I really wanna move the fuck away from Church Ave.

2008 I think, and they say it's going to be permanent. Regular service through Queens wouldn't be bad, either.

Fried chicken on the train smells okay. It's shrimp and McDonald's fries that get to me.

I have occasionally eaten Corn Nuts on the train, since they're the most inoffensively food-like item available from the platform newsstand by me (you know, late for work + killer empty stomach), but then the other day I was in a car with a woman eating some of those and the whole place freaking REEKED of Unpleasant Corn-Nut Stank. I had never EVER thought of Corn Nuts as having any kind of powerful aroma (WTF), but now I feel like all my fellow riders must have been really annoyed.

(Slight thing in my favor: I think the woman had some sort of gross nacho Corn Nuts going on, whereas I always went for the lime chile picante.)

dudes that open their legs really wide and take up two seats

i don't actually ask if i can share ppl's food, but if one of these dudes decides their space is more important than mine, they have to get more gay with me than they might like

If a woman tried that strategy with most of those men, I think they'd consider it a win/win. Hence bell's and my agitation on that topic.

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MTA votes on hikes Wednesday.

HOW DUZ I SHOT F TRAIN

no congestion charge and more money to ride the train

WIN WIN

F train: same shit, diff year

Morbius, take the F or whatever it takes to see "There will be blood".

..1..

my wife took the kid to school today and half-hour later the phone rings "oops school starts TOMORROW" so I run out to the subway and the 1/2/3 dwntwn is fucked up..thx MTA . ah but LOL whatre ya gonna do huh?

F train
One of the freebie handout newspapers had something about the pros and cons of the V train last week.

when the trrains start talking they could evaluate the pros and cons of the freebie newspapers

the G train fuxup the F in Brooklyn, the V does it in Manhattan.

"we have a train in front of us" NO SHIT

I read something about NYC trying out a system to make subway better by assigning line managers to each line and putting them in competition with one another. Is that correct or am I on the pipe?

Ha, I just went on the JaxHts board and accidentally found link to the V train article http://www.amny.com/news/local/transportation/am-vtrain1231,0,6068788.story

god bless the g train. the f line should be discarded and replaced completely by the g. blesssssed day

ban burt stanton

one day, my g train bretheren, you will inherit the earth

i live off the 4 now - easily the most reliable line i've ever lived off.

We're #1! We're #1!

No, you're No. 4.

Oh, right then.

Ok, is the F train normal btwn 7th Ave and Hoyt (or Jay) this weekend, or not? The signs in the stations say no, but the MTA website sez yes this weekend, no March 1-3.

http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/subsrvnweekend.htm#f

the weekend advisory email i got yesterday said no f train this weekend either.

now i don't know whether to cry or wind my watch

I'll be taking the B67 bus to Atlantic/Pacific at least a couple times, then.

I took the B61 for the first time last night! Bus trips are kind of little adventures.

somebody jumped in front of a train and died at the 7th Av Q station on Wednesday night

we got out there about an hour and a half after the incident, cops all over, medical examiner van on the street and the whole station smelled like bleach :(( ick

eeek :(

Whoah, Dave. ;_;

shannon asked one of the cops what happened (to make sure no one got shot / knifed / etc), he said "someone got hit by a train and died." "oh ... how awful." "enh, it happens."

lol, jaded motherfuckers. worse than newspaper people even! ha.

mmmm, small sample size.

"Someone" (transit worker) getting hit by a train was responsible for my worst MTA experience ever, which involved winding up stranded and wandering in an unfamiliar section of Queens in the middle of winter.

(Although the best part of that was priceless -- asking the booth attendant where the alleged nearby bus route was, and having him go "I have never been up there.")

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somebody jumped in front of a train and died at the 7th Av Q station on Wednesday night

When I was coming home that night, Q trains were being re-routed along the N line from Atlantic/Pacific on.

I've had some crummy subway rides lately.
On Tuesday, I knew the Q wasn't running past Atlantic after midnight, so I decided to just take the 4 and walk from Franklin BUT, the 4 was terminating at Brooklyn Bridge, and I had to switch to the Q at Canal anyway. Then to the 2 at Atlantic. Took me about 1 and a half hours from Union Square!

Pretty sure you could have hop-scotched home faster than that. Wau.

Yeah, one of the those nights I was really kicking myself for not getting out at canal and taking a cab across the bridge. Dumb dumb dumb.

the 4 has been sucking lately during evening rush hours, just in wait times and crowdedness.

I used to get on it at Grand Central, it sucked uniformly, morning and evening. :(

4 was running on the 2/3 track this morning

i can usually get a seat at 86th street, but it's packed by 42nd. usually now it's packed by 86th too though.

if i dont get a seat, it is a miserable ride smooshed all the way back to crown heights.

4 was running on the 2/3 track this morning

^^ this worked in my favor this morning.

"morning"

:P

4 has been fucking me over lots lately. i tried switching to n/q to atlantic, but it's not any better cause it moves SOOOO slowly!

There need to be violent protests against any/all future rate hikes.

They've increased 7 service lately, sometimes if I just miss a train in the AM, I can stand on the sunny platform and watch the next one, already pulling into the station.