they should do that more often
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 24 August 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
Bond villain style, Cuomo's hidden new cars found
http://gothamist.com/2017/09/06/prototype_ghost_trains.php
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 September 2017 10:16 (six years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/2017/09/11/monday_l_train_delay.php
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 September 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
yeah i missed a doctor's appointment this morning bc of this shit (saw L platform, said hell nah, hurried to M station, got fucked)
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Monday, 11 September 2017 15:10 (six years ago) link
So when there is a doublewide stairway my assumption is that the protocol is that the far right hand side is the ascending side ( when one is at the lower level) and the left-right side serves as a passing lane. Sometimes people will try to sneak an endrun when this lane is empty but that seems dodgy.
― Star Star City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 22:40 (six years ago) link
Or do the two sides around the center rail actually constitute two separate stairways, each with its own up and down lane?
― Star Star City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 22:45 (six years ago) link
Asking for a friend
― Star Star City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link
I think your first description is correct, but people often fall into the second pattern, especially when a crowded train has emptied a lot of passengers into the station.
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link
oh, the anarchy at the ludicrously under-staircased Whitehall St station
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:35 (six years ago) link
chinavision otm
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
fucking up the wage slaves' Sunday
http://gothamist.com/2017/09/17/power_outage_causes_subway_chaos_on.php
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 September 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
my gal got locked down at jay street for about two hours
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 17 September 2017 23:42 (six years ago) link
"I mean, I hear from people who say the tracks look cleaner or the service seems better. So I'm hearing it already."
Andy tot ready for Trump
http://gothamist.com/2017/09/20/here_try_these_rose_colored_glasses.php
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 22:57 (six years ago) link
17,000 minor defects
http://gothamist.com/2017/09/21/no_subway_blood_no_foul.php
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 September 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
As Jimmy Breslin used to say, beautiful.
“We’ll be able to see what can be done, what can’t be done, if we’re unsuccessful in getting the full amount of money,” Lhota told the MTA board Wednesday.
He vowed not to “spend one penny more” than what’s now in this year’s budget.
Lhota refused to say what work could be derailed....
“I hope the mayor will come up with the money to work in partnership with the governor, because it’s a city-state issue,” said Larry Schwartz, a former Cuomo aide and MTA board member.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mta-cut-836m-subway-repair-work-de-blasio-doesn-pay-article-1.3526227
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 September 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
my Q was effed
http://gothamist.com/2017/10/16/the_f_is_effed_again.php
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 October 2017 19:55 (six years ago) link
http://nypost.com/video/heres-how-much-new-yorkers-hate-slow-walkers
i guess i'm a real new yorker now
― mookieproof, Thursday, 19 October 2017 17:47 (six years ago) link
obvs point perhaps not so obvs for non-urban dwellers but it's not so much that you are walking slow as it is that there is a limited amount of sidewalk/stairs/crosswalk and you are actively and unnecessarily blocking the flow of traffic. I don't mind slow walkers if they hover to one side or the other; my main issue is motherfuckers who take up the whole sidewalk with a conversation or walk three deep. Or, worse, sections of town in front of hotels, bars, restaurants, etc where people treat the sidewalk as if it's a patio and set up a human wall in the middle of a walkway.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 19 October 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
in general, it's just that lack of situational awareness is exhausting for anyone who has to make their way around the city in a hurry. You can assume everyone is late to something (the MTA has seen to that) so maybe please don't crawl or sprawl out in public space
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 19 October 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
the phone-starers who stand right in front of stairways and turnstiles are the fucking worst
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 October 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
we all know when we missed a train specifically because of one specific stairway slow-walker
― chinavision!, Thursday, 19 October 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
power move
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2017/10/31/mtas-use-of-emergency-order-raises-eyebrows-115380
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 22:26 (six years ago) link
let's make unemployment Joe's next fucking problem
https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/11/16/joe-lhotas-not-the-only-one-cursing-over-broken-subway-elevators/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 November 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
shameful shit there
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 17 November 2017 17:39 (six years ago) link
Lhota was actually sorta kinda ok in his last tenure in this role, but he's been a horrible hack during round 2.
― chinavision!, Friday, 17 November 2017 17:47 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/nyregion/new-york-subway-system-failure-delays.html
― 龜, Sunday, 19 November 2017 03:44 (six years ago) link
There's something that's been bugging me about The Times' article on the transit crisis. They mention Bear Stearns' role in creating the MTA debt bomb but don't connect the last dot. The person from Bear Stearns responsible for MTA debt is now the MTA CFO.— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) November 21, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 November 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8x53xb/meet-the-spreadsheet-that-can-solve-nyc-transit-and-the-man-who-made-it
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 2 December 2017 03:39 (six years ago) link
god knows i support the congestion fee but if 15-17% of CBD vehicle trips suddenly stop happening, the subway will explode. it'll take the mta 20 years to add that much capacity, optimistically. be good for busses and bikes tho
― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 December 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
the December weekend subway shit gets worse every year. I went to MoMA to see a rare Warhol film and it soooo wasn't worth it.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 December 2017 02:21 (six years ago) link
re: congestion: in theory, a coordinated master plan for fixing the system would use the regained surface capacity to make various routes bus-only and run continuous massive service enabling you to take more lines out of service for longer continuous stretches of repair, on the path back to regaining good service linewide. unfortunately every aspect of what i just described is either fiscally or politically unthinkable at present, good luck nyc
― 'cause there's always been an it i can't truss (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 3 December 2017 02:56 (six years ago) link
tbh i don't think the subway can be blamed for yr taste in film
― mookieproof, Sunday, 3 December 2017 03:46 (six years ago) link
I meant the tsuris of elbowing through the smelly tourist hordes and sitting on a nonmoving D, then standing all the way home on a Q (going over the R instead of the goddamn bridge) was not worth savoring the minor achievement of Loves of Ondine, dear mook.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 December 2017 06:02 (six years ago) link
i played it safe: one-seat J ride to essex and back for 'umbrellas of cherbourg.' in a bizarre inversion of the norm, this weekend jaunt went far, far more smoothly than any of my trips up to columbia this week which were just a cavalcade of stopping-in-tunnels, waiting-for-transfers, random stop skips, etc...
― 'cause there's always been an it i can't truss (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 3 December 2017 06:43 (six years ago) link
http://www.thecleverest.com/subway/I will report back on my score after I'm done― chinavision!, Friday, August 14, 2015 1:10 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkok it was 204― chinavision!, Friday, August 14, 2015 1:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink123 but yeah i'm sure i'm missing at least a handful. too much head-scratching of "now where would i have gotten off that one time..." etc. cute though!― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Friday, August 14, 2015 1:58 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I will report back on my score after I'm done
― chinavision!, Friday, August 14, 2015 1:10 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ok it was 204
― chinavision!, Friday, August 14, 2015 1:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
123 but yeah i'm sure i'm missing at least a handful. too much head-scratching of "now where would i have gotten off that one time..." etc. cute though!
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Friday, August 14, 2015 1:58 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
two years later and i'm up to 171, maybe with some fudging. my rank is "New York Lifer." god help me.
― 'cause there's always been an it i can't truss (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 3 December 2017 07:07 (six years ago) link
watch the closing cell door!
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 December 2017 14:44 (six years ago) link
stand clear of it, you mean
― 'cause there's always been an it i can't truss (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 3 December 2017 14:45 (six years ago) link
This fact from @nicolegelinas' latest on MTA governance makes me think NYCers should be rioting over MTA spending priorities. https://t.co/fU12VFlEQ9 pic.twitter.com/o5YzIqpCtD— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) December 4, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 December 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
Riders Alliance program next Wednesday
http://salsa.ridersny.org/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=96466
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 December 2017 12:20 (six years ago) link
impressive that my commute took significantly longer today -- a day in which there is *not* a bomber -- than monday
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
Took the train to work today for first time in 9-10 months. It was shockingly okay! Partly I think because like 7 local stops on my line are closed for construction so the N goes straight to my station. Which sucks for all those other ppl.
Thinking about going to that Riders Alliance funding education program. It's on my calendar.
― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
why do i have a membership to a museum in Queens? NQRW all fucked me up tonight. Deflating...
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 16 December 2017 01:18 (six years ago) link
The eternal dilemma when headed back to Queens from downtown on the Eighth Avenue line: whether to switch to the 7 at 42nd Street and spend time walking the tunnel from Eighth to Seventh Avenue or to stay on the E and sit in the tunnel for a mini-eternity between Queens Plaza and Roosevelt.
― Burru Men Meet Burryman ina Wicker Man (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 December 2017 02:52 (six years ago) link
The mayor of New York City everyone! pic.twitter.com/zCkXg0MgVR— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) December 19, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
so dumb. he's against congestion pricing cuz cuomo's for it.
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 01:13 (six years ago) link
also for banning e-bikes - why did i vote for this guy
― 龜, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 03:18 (six years ago) link
speaking of Prince Andy
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2017/12/19/cuomo-now-pins-subway-problems-on-the-state-legislature-154223
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 14:09 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-construction-costs.html
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Sunday, 31 December 2017 07:46 (six years ago) link
3-6x the cost of projects in rational metropolises, in a nutshell
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 31 December 2017 12:48 (six years ago) link
i used to think, oh subways in asia are great because human labor is so cheap, worker exploitation etc. but the paris example really stands out.
― 龜, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link