Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

this is why you never live on the top floor, surmounter

This is why you never live in New York, even.

I am working from home with liv rm AC on -- it is puny but keeps the room totally livable if I wear shorts & don't move too fast. It's kind of a treat, actually, and will give me time to run out my dry cleaning, errands, etc today!

im gonna try to go in now :/

there must be a few buses to choose from if the 456 is down linds

Bell-- no 456 as of 11:45

http://gothamist.com/attachments/jen/2007_08_ihaz2.jpg

I just walked into work with such a massive messenger-bag sweat-sash across my shirt that people awwwwwed at me like an infant.

We should all be praying that terrorists don't ever discover the secret to making it rain FOUR inches.

this summer is more humid but last was by far hotter. it hasn't been that bad. i still wish i'd not been able to get to work, though. instead i'm cranky and i yelled at the new girl.

Hour of rain brings city to halt, C'MON BIN LADEN

i was actually wondering if the rain wasn't a good cover for them to shut everything down because of some supposed terror plot.

I dunno -- they seem to have been pretty consistent over the past years about, you know, any kind of rain, simultaneous air-conditioner leakage, excessive urination, or unpredicted dog-drool shutting the whole thing down.

i was only half an hour late; took bus. amazingly angry crowd.

of course our phones are fucked up at work again, like they are after any major storm.

i dunno man i didn't think last summer was that bad. there was that hot 10 days or something. i erally don't know i get my heat and humidity confuse.d

yes, top floors -i went to a friend's on the first floor the other day and it was so friggin cool. ugh

i took the L to the R, which was stopping at 57th & 7th ave, walked over to madison, took a local bus up 20 blocks. not too bad and i probaaably should have done that a few hours ago. shrug

i hope they fix it by tonight though.

I hope I don't have to take a ferry to Shea Stadium.

Amid the commuter havoc, M.T.A.’s website, mta.info, shut down. It was the second time in several weeks that the website was not able to function during a transit crisis. The last one was during a minor blackout on the east side of Manhattan several weeks ago.

Haha I am working from home!

this summer is a notch warmer on average than last year, despite the absence of sustained ridiculous heat, but it's nothing like '05 (or '02 (or, especially, '99))

(so I guess next summer's gonna be ridiculous?)

(especially if we transition to la nina)

my nyc summer experience would be 40% more tolerable if they would put fans or some kind of ventilation in the subway stations, ugh.

The M.T.A. issued this update on subway service at 12:44 p.m.:

1 trains are suspended in both directions between the South Ferry Station and the 34th Street Station.
2 trains are suspended in both directions between the 34th Street-Penn Station and the Atlantic Avenue Station.
3 trains are suspended in both directions between the New Lots Avenue Station and the Harlem-148th Street Station.

4 trains are suspended in both directions between the 86th Street Station and the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall Station.
5 trains are running shuttle train service in both directions between the East 180th Street Station and the Dyre Avenue Station.
6 trains are suspended in both directions between the 86th Street Station and the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall Station.

7 trains are running with delays.

A trains are running local.
B trains are suspended in both directions between the Brighton Beach Station and the Bedford Park Boulevard Station.
C trains are suspended in both directions between the Euclid Avenue Station and the 168th Street Station.
D trains are suspended in both directions between the 145th Street Station and the Norwood-205th Street Station.
E trains are suspended in both directions between the 23rd Street-Ely Avenue Station and the Forest Hills-71st Avenue Station.

F trains are suspended in both directions between the Queens Plaza Station and the Jamaica-179th Street Station.
G trains are suspended in both directions between the Long Island City-Court Square Station and the 4th Avenue-9th Street Station.
V trains are suspended in both directions between the 2nd Avenue Station and the Forest Hills-71st Avenue Station.

S Franklin Avenue Shuttle trains are suspended in both directions between the Prospect Park Station and the Franklin Avenue Station.
S 42nd Street Shuttle trains are suspended in both directions between the Times Square-42nd Street Station and the Grand Central-42nd Street Station.
J trains are running with residual delays.
L trains are running with residual delays.
N trains are running with residual delays.
M trains are suspended in both directions between the Broad Street Station and the Bay Parkway Station.
Q trains are suspended in both directions between the Kings Highway Station and the 57th Street-7th Avenue Station.
R trains are suspended in both directions between the 57th Street-7th Avenue Station and the Forest Hills-71st Avenue Station.
W trains are suspended in both directions between the Astoria-Ditmars Boulevard Station and the Whitehall Street Station.

"Just pretend we're on strike, okay?"

Officials said they are hopeful that service will be back to normal by the afternoon rush. They plan to issue a service plan by 3 or 4 p.m.

PELHAM 123 WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON DOWN THERE??

ah-CHOO!

Gesundheit

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/350000/images/_351512_pelham.jpg

wow, that worked well.

i just had a mini heart palpitation when the ligthts flickered off at my work a minute ago. turned out it was just the electrician changing the light bulbs on the floor. NO BLACKOUT TODAY PLEASSSSE

I was going to complain about Summer of '99 (a.k.a. the last summer I spent in NYC before this one) but I deleted it.

my nyc summer experience would be 40% more tolerable if they would put fans or some kind of ventilation in the subway stations, ugh.

Many of those stations actually do have ventilation in them. You don't want to think about what it would be like without them!

the cats knew this would happen. they tried to tell me last night, but couldn't speak english.

Waht we have here is a failure to communicate.

mind meld.

yes summer of '05 sucked BIG TIME

i was shocked when last summer was so tolerable

our power just went out like 5 min ago and the heat is already getting pretty terrible :x

Oh no!!! Fuuuuuck.

geez i'm so sorry

I forget the summers as soon as they are over. Except the one where I worked nights and slept on a sizzling bed w/ no AC. VERY NOISE!

sleep

IN

The Day New York Caught Fire

NY TIMEZ: LOOKOUT, MEL TORME ON LOOSE

"It looked like tornado activity, a very dense black wall, almost like a heavy velvet fog,” said J. R. Thomason, a fundraiser for the New York Philharmonic, who watched the storm from an attic room in a three-story house in the Kensington district of Brooklyn between 6 and 7 a.m. "

I was trying to sleep through Hurricane Torme in a basement in a three-story house in the Kensington district of Brooklyn between 6 and 7 a.m.

my least favorite summer memory involves being stuck IN the battery tunnel for 45 minutes in traffic that was closed down to one lane, in a 1984 toyota tercel. the car was on the verge of overheating so we had to turn the HEAT on. at one point i poured a bottle of water on myself for relief but it turned out that it was SCALDING HOT from sitting in the car all day in the sun.

I woke up to the realization that oh fuck, I'd left the window open in the other room

Posted on:8/8/2007 3:11:05 PM

Due to severe flooding throughout the subway system earlier today, there are still extensive delays on some subway lines. We are working to restore full service to all the affected subway lines. Customers are advised when at all possible to use bus service. This is the current status of subway operations:

1 train service has resumed with residual delays.

2 and 3 train service has resumed service but with residual delays.

4 and 5 train service has resumed with residual delays.

6 train service has resumed with residual delays..

7 trains are running.

a trains are running local.

b train service has resumed with residual delays.

c trains are suspended in both directions between the Euclid Avenue Station and the 168th Street Station.

d train service has resumed with residual delays.

e trains are suspended in both directions between the Queens Plaza Station and the Forest Hills-71st Avenue Station.

f trains are suspended in both directions between the 21st Street-Queensbridge Station and the Jamaica-179th Street Station.

g trains are suspended in both directions between the Long Island City-Court Square Station and the 4th Avenue-9th Street Station.

v trains are suspended in both directions between the 2nd Avenue Station and the Forest Hills-71st Avenue Station.

s Franklin Avenue Shuttle has resumed with residual delays.

s 42nd Street Shuttle service has resumed with residual delays.

j trains are running.

l trains are running.

n trains are running.

m trains are running.

q train service has resumed with residual delays.

r trains are suspended in both directions between the 57th Street-7th Avenue Station and the Forest Hills-71st Avenue Station.

w trains are suspended in both directions between the Astoria-Ditmars Boulevard Station and the Whitehall Street Station.

Getting to JFK this morning was a real treat.

Gov. Eliot Spitzer ordered the Metropolitan Transportation Authority today to conduct a review of how torrential rains paralyzed New York City’s transit system this morning, disabling or delaying every one of the city’s subway lines.

“The cause of the cascading outages across the mass transportation system this morning was the inability of our drainage system to handle what was, we believe, three inches of rain within a one-hour period,” Mr. Spitzer said. The drainage system was designed to handle only about an inch and a half of rain over an hour, he said.

Governor Spitzer said it was the third time in seven months that a sudden downpour of rain had led to “a total outage of our mass transportation system,” although the two previous failures were not nearly as severe and dramatic as today’s.

“What that certainly suggests to me is that we have a design issue that we need to think about,” Mr. Spitzer, noting that the transit system suffered a similar, near-complete shutdown, in September 2004, when torrential rains associated with Hurricane Frances inundated New York City.

NEED TIME MACHINE FOR IMPORTING IMMIGRANT SLAVE LABOR TO REBUILD 1904 TUNNELS

harsh words, those immigrants got paid.