Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

(pickups and drop-offs would still be allowed)

isn't 90% of the city's traffic rideshares or cabs anyway?

i would put something like 35% for delivery vehicles whether UPS-style or rigs

apparently the answer is: laptops

https://www.thecut.com/2019/10/what-do-guys-keep-in-their-backpacks.html

i switched back to a backpack abt five years ago on physical therapist's orders. but they also told me i should have no more than seven pounds of stuff in there... so once i throw in my planner, pen, camera, maybe a cell charger and a hoodie for if i'm going to some ice-cold interior, i'm pretty much done. on days when i'm teaching, i have my tablet and a little notepad and i can feel the extra weight in my lower back. and i still am hyperconscious of taking up train space.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/nyregion/Miss-Subways-NYC.html

Later, when Ms. Greenberg was asked about her agenda as the new Miss Subways, she said, “I’m going to release rabid wolves into the subway.”

I hate the ads on the trains and station walls. Some bloated MTA fuck wanted to build a pool in his backyard so thousands are exposed to this bullshit

hmmmm interesting theory

thrilling use of the subway's limited resources

are you...fucking....kidding me?? they’re installing cameras in front of every single turnstyle at the fulton stop in manhattan right now pic.twitter.com/6QbirJSVSg

— Rosemary Donahue (@rosadona) November 1, 2019

Big Andy is watching you

Jump turnstile and sleep

if we have to choose between a surveillance nightmare and hundreds of heavily armed cops everywhere, i'd take the surveillance nightmare. but who am i kidding? we're obviously getting both!

That is so messed up. Although easily could be taken out with baseball bats.

There is a recent video of a woman in chile climbing up a tall pole and disabling a street surveillance camera and then the crowd below her catches her. It's great.

https://imgur.com/gallery/BvdCL1C

in other subway news, i'd appreciate it if people fortunate enough to have a seat didn't then lean forward, put their elbows on their knees, and stick their heads in my crotch while playing candy crush or whatever

I was worried by the guys with very pointy flag poles but it all acme out for he best.

Someone didn’t even do a rough cost-benefit analysis on this. It costs between $50,000,000 and $75,000,000 a year to pay for 500 extra officers. I doubt they will prevent 20,000,000 additional incidents of fare evasion to break even...

— TekGuru3000 (@tekguru3000) November 2, 2019

who is
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Daniel Ventre iirc

This guy in the purple is mad relatable. Lmaoooo pic.twitter.com/Go0r1kjcCT

— Justin Bobby (@OvertimeJBobby) December 15, 2019

I’m getting a little pushy in the mornings when douchebag reading his phone won’t step out of the fucking way when the doors open. I’ll give him a little shoulder on my way out.

guy in the green in the back looks like Adam Neely

yoooo these guys bombed an entire train exterior
https://www.instagram.com/p/B6GOLmfpBi2
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/check-out-amazing-total-subway-graffiti-takeover

So the bus drivers all switch routes tomorrow?

today’s driver told me it happens four times a year

keep dem routes fresh, friend

so this morning’s commute

Queens seems to be a much bigger delay clusterfuck than Brooklyn

https://gothamist.com/news/mta-rings-first-monday-2020-citywide-signal-meltdown

i had a mentally ill dude on the train on saturday who completely lost it and was going bench by bench, car by car, screaming at every other person "IGNORE ME? YOU IGNORE ME! HOW YOU IGNORE ME!?!? IGNORE ME?"
he skipped me somehow, perhaps because i wasn't ignoring him

https://abc7ny.com/5818890

So here’s a thing: when you are standing inside the car holding the rail above next to or above the seats and somebody gets up from his seat when the train stops and says “excuse me” and stands waiting like a Dr. Seuss character until you move, since technically you are between him and the door, although there might be another defender behind you, so you improvise a space but maybe this person should have taken a step or two into the middle of the car and left you out of it

at least they've waited until the train stops and there's a place to go

with the people who get up while the train's still moving it's like where, exactly, do you expect me to go

^THIS^

with the people who get up while the train's still moving

tbf if i didnt do this at Broadway-Lafayette, i may not make it thru the doors in time

a truly Dantean stop

oh yeah, i used to have a commute that required me to switch from the downtown 6 to the BDFM, which meant many days started with a dangerous sprint down two flights of stairs

for the Bwy/Lafayette to the 6, step one is position yourself in the first/last car as appropriate
step two is stand at the station BEFORE your stop and head for the door, step out, let new passengers out and then make yourself the last person in so you're by the door when it closes
step three: don't take the escalators, head to the stairs behind them

I have to get off the F and get to Mercer St, so i take the elevator unless it broke

it generally broke. or at least painted three shades of urine.

that's "local color"

http://fanart.tv/fanart/movies/145197/hdmovielogo/upstream-color-517a19a0eca7e.png

with the people who get up while the train's still moving it's like where, exactly, do you expect me to go

― mookieproof, Wednesday, January 8, 2020 9:05 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is one piece of subway etiquette that I never understood. maybe in a perfect world with a spacious train and a nice, generous window to get on and off you can wait, but in the real world it takes time and effort to fight your way to the doors, the driver isn't going to wait for you, and if you miss a stop as a result, depending on the stop that can add 15+ minutes to your travel time. or even if you don't miss the stop, everyone getting on the train is going to think you're an asshole because you're now trying to get off when they thought they were clear to get on

the actual worst though is when people stand in front of an open seat, but do not take the seat, thus blocking it for everyone else. especially on packed trains when that seat could be freeing up some space

the counterpoint is that expecting other people to adjust and move around while the train is moving isn't fair to them. i'm precariously balanced here, i'm stretching my lower back to twist around somebody and hang on to the pole, the train is lurching as it brakes and now i'm supposed to let go and move around? agreed with ulysses, if it's a full car you should start your journey to the door at the previous stop. obvious exceptions for those of limited mobility etc.

agreed totally about blocking an empty seat though. the WORST (except for standing still on the stairs).... prob have complained about it upthread.

The blocking an empty seat seems like a misplaced machoism of some kind. Like it’s unmanly to take a seat bc seats are for pregnant ladies and the elderly so I will refuse to sit down

or i just don't feel like squeezing myself in between two people just to stare at someone's crotch for 40 minutes. sitting down on a crowded train sucks

going to invest in industrial scissors to destroy all backpacks worn on the back

see also the people who try to stand up and maneuver to the doors while a full train is moving despite nearing a stop where over half the car will exit.

they really need to redesign the poles. I have seen some that take up the same footprint but in the general middle they diverge into 3 separate poles. So many more people can hold on without ending up on a surprise date.

i reserve hate for the people who just stand inside the car directly in front of the door and don't move when people get on. you gotta get in there! you are blocking me out!

I never sit down unless there is an empty seat on either side and will give up my seat for anyone

i reserve hate for the people who just stand inside the car directly in front of the door and don't move when people get on. you gotta get in there! you are blocking me out!

Good point about the alternating sides. And the rotating. A little rotation goes along way, the people who stand stock still like mimes pretending to be statues are the worst.