And excuse me, now I am at 59th Street and this blue wall is literally blocking the N express line. Yet utterly no explaination why? There is not even basic signage. WTF is this? How can anyone plan their trip “accordingly” with a literal wall like that just being there?!? @NY1 pic.twitter.com/5kt1GW6S0k— Jack Szwergold (@JackSzwergold) July 30, 2018
Here’s what went wrong on the D, N, and R lines this morning and the actions we’ve taken to drastically cut delays moving forward. pic.twitter.com/T76PRNDddb— NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) July 30, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 July 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
xp but when I'm in a rush I am too frazzled and terrified of being fired to painstakingly measure the exact speed of swiping a metrocard, sorry
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 30 July 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
comments like this are why the subway is among the single most anxiety-inducing things in my life, to the point of having actual anxiety attacks on the train on a regular basis. for another example, I have a very poor sense of balance and the rapid jerking of the subway often causes me to fall, as in literally get knocked off my feet, especially if I'm carrying bags or groceries, which is virtually all the time (my laptop bag alone is heavy and bulky, since it has a laptop in it on top of all my other stuff.). but people yell at you if you "hug the pole." they also yell at you, of course, if you fall. there is no way to win
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 30 July 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
i feel u on the balance issue. the old C trains actively hurt my knee if i'm positioned incorrectly
i was not suggesting that you painstakingly measure the exact speed of swiping; i was noting that experience teaches *nearly* all of us that super-fast or wicked-slow will not work. there are also other reasons why a card won't work -- i guess morbs uses his as a hanky or something
but if you stand there and repeatedly whip the card at the highest possible speed and become incensed at its failure to work -- as the dude who prompted my original post did -- then i don't know what to say
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 00:03 (five years ago) link
My card works smoothly on the F line, like shit at the Prince St R/W
not gonna go into my hour-plus JUST USED travails tonight with an idiot booth clerk involved
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 00:31 (five years ago) link
i still think trying to hide a yearlong track work project is goddamn amazing even for the MTA
http://gothamist.com/2018/07/30/surprise_subway_work_here_to_derail.php
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 01:14 (five years ago) link
seem to be a lot of 'emergency brakes activating' lately
this happened a few weeks ago to a train i was on when it was about halfway into the station. we sat there for 10 or 15 minutes before someone finally went around and unlocked one door on each car by hand. which would not have been comforting in a real emergency
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 August 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
What a commute I had this morning
― RONG Blecch Limo Wreck (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 August 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
Excited for flooding content
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 3 August 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
seem to be a lot of 'emergency brakes activating' lately I've been noticing this too! Did somebody turn up the sensitivity on whatever activates them systemwide?
― mick signals, Sunday, 5 August 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
my (exhausted, overheated) hunch that the A/C is out on the 1 more than other lines turns out to be correct
http://gothamist.com/2018/06/15/hottest_subway_guide_2018.php
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
Just experienced what seemed to be an unnecessary emergency brake activation
― Suspicious Hiveminds (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 01:26 (five years ago) link
“Hell is other people”No, it’s being kicked in the face by a pole dancing subway performer in a hot car while surrounded by other people
― calstars, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 01:30 (five years ago) link
fuckin hate the 1 car with the ac off, seems to be the first car i walk into every day
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 01:39 (five years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/2018/08/09/clark_street_elevators_only.php
lol
― 龜, Friday, 10 August 2018 11:39 (five years ago) link
L train shutting down completely between Man and Bk this weekend and also several other weekends in the coming months
― calstars, Friday, 10 August 2018 11:48 (five years ago) link
I thought the shutdown was going to be total from the get-go
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 August 2018 12:06 (five years ago) link
this isn't the actual shutdown yet right
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 10 August 2018 12:33 (five years ago) link
as a n/w train rider i can't get worked up about "down between Manhattan and whatever borough I live in for the weekend"
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 10 August 2018 12:35 (five years ago) link
(it *is* absolute horseshit for ppl who work on weekends)
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 10 August 2018 12:36 (five years ago) link
Bent or deteriorated cards, you can get them replaced at the booth? I had some expired cards with money still on them and the booth attendant moved all the money to a new card.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 August 2018 13:50 (five years ago) link
they sometimes can and sometimes can't - if their thingy can't confirm the amount on the card you get stuck with the sad "mail this in to request a refund" envelope/form.
― mortal kombats fill your eyes (Doctor Casino), Friday, 10 August 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
D trains are stopping along the N line between 36 St (Bklyn) and Stilwell Av in both directions. There is no R train service between 36 St (Bklyn) and Bay Ridge-95 St in both directions.These service changes and delays are because of Con Edison loss of power in Brooklyn.— NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) August 10, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 August 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
btw the last time an extremely unhelpful clerk gave me one of those envelopes, i literally said to her "I don't do that shit."
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 August 2018 14:00 (five years ago) link
i don't live on the L, thank god, but it's absolutely absurd that they won't dedicate a bus lane on the w'burg bridge during the shutdown
with any luck these weekend previews will help demonstrate that before the shit truly hits the fan
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 August 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
I have to start work on Monday (just for a couple of months while in town) and I couldn't sleep last night because of anxiety about having to take the train again during rush hours.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 August 2018 14:05 (five years ago) link
Lol day 3 of a new job for me and I guess one non-hellish commute out of three is not bad these days?
― chinavision!, Friday, 10 August 2018 14:13 (five years ago) link
Hi @MTA last night I was on an A train stalled under the river for 90 mins (eventually we all had to walk to the front car to hop onto the high st platform) and now I’ve spent 50 mins on a C train that became an F train and is now a D train. But congrats on the new app pic.twitter.com/bpCcvujrHq— Kengo Tsutusmi (@kengos) August 8, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 August 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link
Add this to the list of NYC infrastructure failures getting worse with climate change: The down 4/5/6 platform at Union Square hit 104° F, making it the hottest temperature recorded in the subway. Other similarly busy stations were close behind.https://t.co/ODh21Grffo pic.twitter.com/1EegUkBLy7— Alexander Kaufman (@AlexCKaufman) August 13, 2018
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 August 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
when I was in Chicago the other day they had an enormous fuck-off industrial fan on the O'Hare platform, and while all these platforms are so crowded I don't know where the MTA would put one, it sure seemed like an amazing idea
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 13 August 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
meanwhile
nyc subway about to risk it all pic.twitter.com/eBeUOp5pPQ— angy mobley (@andymoney69) August 13, 2018
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 13 August 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
Southbound N trains are running on the D line from 36 St to Coney Island Stillwell Av while the NYPD safely retrieve goats from the tracks. pic.twitter.com/oDy0KVk6PL— NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) August 20, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 August 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
nice Monday
http://gothamist.com/2018/08/27/b_q_n_r_j_z_trains_bad_sad.php
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 August 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
my commute involves three trains and improbably ALL THREE OF THEM lacked air-conditioning
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
vote Nixon
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 September 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/2018/09/07/subway_mta_forget_it.php
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 September 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
Moving trains a full avenue block away from most of the subway lines while keeping MSG in its current place so that we can have a nice headhouse is NYC's approach to transit in the 21st Century in a nutshell. https://t.co/4YgTKMBPak— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) September 6, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 September 2018 14:52 (five years ago) link
xp -- regardless of one's thoughts on nixon vs. cuomo the air conditioning issue is something neither of them can fix, because it's an issue with cars specific to the 1 and 6 lines, and those cars don't get replaced for about six years (it presumably takes a while to get a replacement of train cars, and they can't pull from lines that run different kinds of cars)
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 7 September 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link
wait, i thought all A-division stock was interchangeable... what would be specific about the 1 and 6? versus the 2, 3, 4, and 5?
but anyway though, cuomo has been governor for eight years - he could have said day one "i am going to build on the recent turnaround in the subway system and prioritize catching up on maintenance and replacing old rolling stock." he didn't. or more recently he could have looked at byford's report-back and said "yup, this is the visionary thinking we need to kick the system into the twenty-first century - we need to fund this urgently, top priority" - he didn't. so at least nixon, by virtue of not being cuomo, hasn't already demonstrated that she doesn't give a shit about teeing up medium- and long-term investments which would include replacement cars.
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:01 (five years ago) link
the cars with the frequently broken air conditioning are R62A cars, almost all of which run on the 1 and the 6 lines (64 cars out of 69 total)
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:08 (five years ago) link
(I haven't been able to find anything that says *why* they only run on the 1 and 6 lines, but I assume there's a reason given that they're the local trains.)
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
aha, got it, thanks!
wonder if they're just like really old and rickety and consequently no one wants to test them at express speeds...
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
according to signal problems not really, which is counter-intuitively the problem (since that means they're not a priority to be replaced):
Unfortunately, this means the problem isn’t going away any time soon. Although hot cars are a nuisance—or during heat waves like this week’s, actually dangerous—R62As are still serviceable foot soldiers with a mean distance between failure of 100,475 miles. That’s below the system average of 119,908, but well above the ancient R32s (31,114), R42s (34,217), and R46s (71,357). Those will have to be replaced first.
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
man, sounds like a lot of cars have needed replacing for a while. if only new york state had had a governor during the past!
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link
but again, i do appreciate you doing my homework for me on the cars!
Dude the R32s were built in 64/65!!I love em but it’s so insane that they still run them.
― chinavision!, Friday, 7 September 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
sounds like they need to be sunk in the sea like the old 'redbird' cars
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link
i think that's illegal now. but pile them all up in fresh kills park and you have endless opportunities for annual instagrammable artistic installations!
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
or wait, i've got it - chain them all together, stick pontoons on them, and claim it's a new combination ferry/subway line across the east river. wait for it to fill up with selfie-taking williamsburg condo dwellers on opening day, then sink the whole works.
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
They were still ‘reefing’ old cars up until a few years ago I think? Not actually sure why they stopped.
― chinavision!, Friday, 7 September 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link