I'm not sure I buy '70% of passengers on the 7 get seats at most crowded point during rush hour'.
― iatee, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
NYT has chairman of the MTA saying that it could take up to 8 hours to shut down the system. BULLSHITIACO! You shut it down instantly in the blizzard, pretty much, so what's the difference? There will be lolz if hundreds of thousands of oblivious shoppers are stranded in Manhattan at noon tomorrow.
Fuck the MTA up the ass with a slow G train.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
they didn't shut the system down during the blizzard, the blizzard shut them down. if they're organized and prepared for this, there will be fewer problems a week from now.
8 hours in total doesn't seem that ridiculous if they're bringing every single train back to its yard (some of them are going to be going in the wrong direction when that decision is made).
I dunno why the narrative always had to be 'the MTA is out to screw me' - do you really want them running trains w/ flooded stations underground and potentially deadly winds above ground?
― iatee, Friday, 26 August 2011 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
iatee, present!
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
I'm just confused as to how you can frame something like this as 'the MTA is out to get me'
this is pretty shitty, a large hurricane could cause serious damage to the system and being as cautious as possible is prob a good idea at this point. there are examples of the MTA being poorly run. this is not one.
― iatee, Friday, 26 August 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
just wait.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
lulz
― Mordy, Friday, 26 August 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
WAIT FOR THE RATS
― mark s, Friday, 26 August 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
The mayor said he expected the transit system would be shut down sometime Saturday afternoon. He said it was unlikely buses, subways and trains would be available again until Monday or later.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
good grief. i'll be in NYC this weekend -- but now i'm wondering if it's such a good idea
― geeta, Friday, 26 August 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
haha mark s have you seen this?!?!?
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/08/25/2011-08-25_giant_rat_killed_by_pitchfork_in_marcy_houses_is_believed_to_be_.html
― geeta, Friday, 26 August 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
really though, i am not in ny atm & imagining all of this relies on using a huge bank of images culled from disaster movies & demolition manesque dystopian futures & sci-fi mutant rats etc etc. the way it unfolds in my imagination is just terrifying. canal st under 6 feet of water is crazy to me.
― (Chris Isaak Cover) (schlump), Friday, 26 August 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
fucking ay man, this has me hella pnoid nowthey shut down the parks, no shows.
― dozens, maybe even hundreds, of vagina related screen names (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 August 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
if the 40mph winds aren't starting til early Sunday, this is classic Cover Your Ass excess.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
mets pretty much have to cancel saturday's game without any transit
― mookieproof, Friday, 26 August 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah they're banging the drum so hard that my wife's sister (who lives right on the wburg waterfront) wants to come stay with us TONIGHT. It might not even be RAINING tonight!
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Friday, 26 August 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/nyregion/mass-transit-shutdown-for-irene-is-complex-job.html
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
cry me a river
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 August 2011 09:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/nyregion/new-yorkers-warned-of-possible-electrical-shutdown.html
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said that mass transit was “unlikely to be back” in service on Monday. The mayor also said that electricity could be knocked out in Lower Manhattan if Consolidated Edison to shut off the power pre-empt the problems that flooding could cause for its cables.
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ morbz taking over every single NYC thread to complain
― dayo, Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
tbf he started this one to complain
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
plus ça change ...
― Murdered plants communicate with a bowl of shrimps in another room! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't know morbz started threads...
― dayo, Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
he hasn't been in the Queens thread since NYC went hurricane-apeshit, though.
― Murdered plants communicate with a bowl of shrimps in another room! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6210/6086067149_5b269e882c_z.jpg
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
that is like those photos by the la photographer dude who photoshopped out all the cars
― dayo, Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
Have to admit that I am enjoying these Vanilla SkyAbre los ojos photos of famously crowded famous places in NYC.
― Don't ask for the steening, ask for the HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
haha I wonder if some indie filmmaker took advantage of it
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
ps something to be bitter about if you wanna be bitter: 2ndavesags: 'As of earlier today, MTA said folks with unlimited ride MetroCards will not get bonus days because of system shutdown.'
― iatee, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
WAIT FOR THE C.H.U.D.s
― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
Also reminds me of a sequence in ILB favorite What Mad Universe, by Fredric Brown.
― Don't ask for the steening, ask for the HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
My current unlimited card expires today, it just so happens *nonchalantly examines manicure*
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 27 August 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
Buses in New York City are expected to be the first form of mass transit that will be restored, but Mr. Walder had no timeline for their return to service. The lack of subway service makes it difficult for drivers to travel to depots to begin operating the buses.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 August 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
Why don't they just take a bus there
― Cass McCars (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 28 August 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
UPDATE: As of 4:30 p.m. the MTA will begin restoring limited bus service in New York City. Full route-by-route details about service restorations will be provided in the Service Status Box at left when available. Restoration will begin in Manhattan and the Bronx, followed by Queens and Brooklyn. Conditions in Staten Island continue to prevent restoration of service at this time. No fares will be charged for service provided today.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 August 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://mta.info/
Noooo, I don't want to go to work tomorrow. Bloomie's advice: take a cab or walk. Always with his finger on the pulse vis a vis the travails of the common New Yorker.
― Virginia Plain, Sunday, 28 August 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
Hahahoohooohoooahahah yeah right.
― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Sunday, 28 August 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
Why are you hectoring him for reasonable statements? /iatee
Buses running on Coney Island Ave.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 August 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
VPlain, there is a Mets doubleheader tomw at 4:10, but I don't know if I can get there. (Libraries closed?)
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 August 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
I'm very much hoping the libraries are closed, but I guess they're not gonna announce anything until tomorrow morning.
As much as I'd love to root for the Mets, a free tomorrow would be a windfall in terms of packing.
― Virginia Plain, Sunday, 28 August 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
Almost literally?
― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Sunday, 28 August 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
Lol. Once the city is up and running again, we need to get drinks.
― Virginia Plain, Sunday, 28 August 2011 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
With limited exceptions, service will resume across the subway system at 6:00 a.m. Monday morning. Service will be less frequent than normal, and customers should expect longer waits and more crowded trains. Frequency of service will improve over the course of the day. Specifically:
•3 trains will operate between 137th Street/City College and New Lots Avenue; Substitute bus service will be provided between Harlem 148th Street and 135th Street connecting with the 2 train.•C trains suspended; A trains will make all local stops from 207th St. to Lefferts Blvd. •No service in the Rockaways. (Rockaway Blvd. to Far Rockaway and Rockaway Park)•6 trains runs local in the Bronx•7 trains run local•S Franklin Avenue Shuttle (FAS) Suspended•N trains terminate at Kings Highway. Shuttle bus service between Kings Highway and Stillwell Terminal.
The Staten Island Railway will resume normal service at midnight tonight.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2011 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
Fuck.
― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Monday, 29 August 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
cosign
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
what a DELIGHTFUL weekend.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2011 01:36 (twelve years ago) link
metro north still fucked so I don't have to go to work! woohoo
― iatee, Monday, 29 August 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
sorta hope it's not fucked tuesday!
I bet this 'limited' service is gonna be a clusterfuck. But gotta make the donuts!
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link