Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

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.

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.

Hahahoohooohoooahahah yeah right.

Why are you hectoring him for reasonable statements? /iatee

Buses running on Coney Island Ave.

VPlain, there is a Mets doubleheader tomw at 4:10, but I don't know if I can get there. (Libraries closed?)

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.

Almost literally?

Lol. Once the city is up and running again, we need to get drinks.

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.

Fuck.

cosign

what a DELIGHTFUL weekend.

metro north still fucked so I don't have to go to work! woohoo

sorta hope it's not fucked tuesday!

I bet this 'limited' service is gonna be a clusterfuck. But gotta make the donuts!

I don't have to be at work until 12:30, but I would greatly prefer not to go in at all.

thank god the crucial Staten Island Railway will be back soon

looks like the subway is running fine? anyone have any problems?

Nope. Worked great for me this morning

I had to wait 8 minutes for the 7 which resulted in me being 5 minutes late for work. Most unbeneficial natural disaster ever.

I assumed the hamstrung A train would be such a great aggravation that I was better off riding my bike, so I did.

C was running fine when i took it this afternoon!

NJ transit on the other hand

totally PERFECT! after all, it was time to deliver the wage slaves to their masters. If this had happened Labor Day weekend, things would've been up Tuesday.

Shutting the city down at NOON on Saturday was balls.

when would you have suggested shutting it down?

After I saw Mysteries of Lisbon.

If it hadn't shut down the water would have carried you to Lisbon.

morns can't nice things just be nice sometimes?

I mean morbs

NJ transit on the other hand

Tracks washed out

This morning's commute saw a hipster with big glasses along with sticky-uppy hair and a dude in John Coltrane shirt. Thought I was trapped in some ILX dreamscape.

to be fair to NJT they got hit way worse than the MTA did

beginning of god's plan to wipe out the suburbs

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/09/02/nyregion/JERVIS/JERVIS-articleLarge.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/nyregion/port-jervis-train-line-will-take-months-to-repair.html?ref=nyregion

our new public transit system:

http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/09/14/nyc-chooses-alta-to-operate-bike-share-system-with-10000-bikes/

Gotta love those water-main breaks for the Monday PM rush

it was an 100 year old year old tube

and funding for 'less than 100 year old' things doesn't exist because people like this are in charge: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/nyregion/governor-andrew-cuomo-eagerly-attends-an-auto-show.html

+1 for avoiding morbs-is-old joke
-1 for 'an 100'

no you see I was saying it w/ a british accent

-2

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/ahead-of-its-time-an-icon-goes-digital/

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date Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:42 PM
subject MANH, A, B. C. D. 1 train, Black Eyed Peas Concert

All persons attending the Black Eyed Peas concert in Central Park are to detrain at the 59th Street-Columbus Circle Station for entry to the concert.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/03/soon-l-will-mean-less-crowded-subway-officials-say/

But the report (see below) also offers an inadvertent manual for weary riders trying to beat the crowds. From 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays, for instance, the Brooklyn-bound L sometimes carries up to 35 percent more passengers than the prescribed maximum load. The lesson: midafternoon barbecues in Williamsburg are not recommended.

The good news for riders is that the sardinelike conditions may soon be coming to an end: subway officials have pledged to run more L trains on the weekends, starting in the summer of 2012, according to State Senator Daniel L. Squadron, a Democrat representing parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan whose office requested the study.

a subway conductor answers all your nyc transit questions!

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kx5fa/iama_new_york_city_transit_subway_conductor_ama/

lol, a single extra weekday morning L train between 9 and 9:30 ain't gonna do shit.

I guess they're just at capacity for the 8-9am hour and can't add more trains? Or what?

Maybe the best solution is to expand ferry service.

OTOH, it would not be hard to increase weekend L service from ZERO

most of the time that they're shutting down the l like that it's so they can install the new tech that will allow increased capacity.

and yes hurting I believe it's basically at capacity atm. ferry service is mostly a joke as far as commuting goes. fun tho.