Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

mookie do you live in my neighborhood? i'm just off the church these days

Actually more than 25 mins, that's just how long I was waiting.

Just saw that getting off at Hoyt-Schermerhorn. May have to take 23 to transfer to 7 at TS to get back to Queens. Which is probably at log easier than what others will have to do.

i live in carroll g, same as ever. it's a pleasant evening walk from jay street, which was a total shitfight

I knew this thread was gonna get bumped tonight. commute suuuucked.

why do ya think they call it the F train?

since I live off the Ditmas, forks, I now curse the extension of the G every day.

On the 7 now after catching 5 at Borough Hall . As I passed through the Fulton Mall on my way to the station I espied a vehicle with NCC-1701-D U.S.S. Enterprise painted on the side.

mookie do you live in my neighborhood? i'm just off the church these days

― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu),

Hey guys, Bergen Street here...are there a lot of ILXors in the County of Kings?

jimmy mod is also a bergen streeter, when he's not gallivanting about the globe

i still miss jersey city
sadface

signal problems on the E in Queens tonight. it ain't nuthin really.

So my roommate showed me a story about a guy who got hit by a train + decapitated two years ago on the L

Fuck, man

http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Subway-in-1981-21-640x432.png

http://www.fubiz.net/2014/01/30/new-york-city-subway-in-1981

Impeach Cuomo

F/G trains fucked in Brooklyn by signal problems, there went my chance to see Anthony Quinn in Barabbas.

Guess you didn't go see German version of Murder! either.

no, that's a tad trivial for me (also on YouTube)

i got in okay to see the carol churchill play, kinda wish i hadn't

whoops! I saw one of her plays 25 years ago, Alec baldwin was in it.

mom on uptown rush hour 3 train yesterday with Cadillac-sized baby carriage

die, asshole

Just a couple of points on that, as someone who occasionally has to bring a stroller on the subway:

1) "Rush Hour" in NYC is like a 2.5 hour window in the morning and another 2.5 hour window in the evening, minimum. In fact, some lines are crowded throughout the day, so it's pretty hard to avoid travel during "rush hour."

2) Some moms/dads have jobs they have to go to, requiring them to first drop off their babies somewhere (daycare etc.)

3) You can't just "fold the stroller" because it's pretty much impossible to carry a baby and a folded stroller simultaneously.

4) While I use and generally support the use of smaller "subway strollers" on public transit, when a baby is very young, it has to lie flat and hence has to be in an ordinary carriage-style stroller instead of a folding stroller.

That said, if the baby was really small, I suppose it could have been brought in a carrier, depending on where the mom was going with the baby.

This was 6pm prime human-crush 7th Ave line.

If all that is true, getting on a rush-hour train that is packed anyway... woman still needs to live somewhere else. Just solipsism at its worst.

Wanna be a parent? Give some shit up.

This whitegirl in a track suit can afford cabs.

Plus she was essentially blocking a door and of course glued to her fucking phone.

right, because its not solipsism to believe that people should "live somewhere else" rather than inconvenience you on a train

yes, fucking breeders, kneel down to them 24/7

inconvenience the public bcz of their fucking arrogant hijacking of public infrastructure

she was probly on her way to a tapas bar on Columbus Avenue

go on

the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many

What need of yours was being infringed again?

to be an old man with cancer who can spread his legs or sit down

people should pretty much not be allowed to have children.
think of planet earth! your child is going to produce so many tons of garbage in its lifetime! and it's all your fault!

it's all hurting's fault

sorry, hurting, but as a parent you have destroyed planet earth and also the nyc subways.

obv I am talking about just one genus of parent, the selfish fucks

yeah iatee, you and your permanent-rush-hour never-a-seat idyll welcomes spacehog parents.

honestly, the real enemy on the subways is students. teenagers and college students alike. they're loud, they lean against the pole, they don't let riders off before they trample into the train, they run and cause a ruckus on the platform, they've got backpacks swinging all over the place, and they have absolutely no regard for anyone else.

also smelly hobos

of course. let's not forget the hobos.

people who play games on their cell phones w/ the sound on are actually the true enemy

they're bad. but there's significant overlap with students there. see also: people who play music on their iphone speaker.

did we say "fucking breeders" yet?
fucking breeders

they don't let riders off before they trample into the train

yet to notice which part of the population doesn't do this

sorry, but a third of em clearly think they are the upper caste

F train derails in Woodside, minor injuries

http://gothamist.com/2014/05/02/f_train_derailment_in_queens.php#.

it's crazy that this weird world is underneath us EVERY DAY

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8232/8477003948_43896bcfca_z.jpg https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8391/8475915099_5ab6b2c96e_z.jpg https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8229/8477004644_41d80828a3_z.jpg

I love photos of subway tunnels being dug.

awesome