Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

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.

Looking like we may get a slight replay tomorrow morning (1 to 1.5 inches predicted for tonight).

- Can I get a single ride?
- You have to use the machine.
- Yeah, they're not doing single rides.
- I can give you $4 if you have a card.
- I don't have a card.
- I can't give you a single ride.
- So I have $2, but I can't ride the train?
- DON'T GIVE ME ATTITUDE.
- I'm not giving you attitude!
- DON'T GIVE ME ATTITUDE.
- I'M JUST TRYING TO RIDE THE TRAIN FOR TWO DOLLARS.
- There's another machine around the corner, you can try that one.
- .....

Add to list of reasons to hate people.

The best part was 60 seconds later, walking across the street, when my brain went "wait wait, SHE was giving YOU attitude! SHE had the attitude!"

So have you graded your line yet?

http://enterprise.mtanyct.info/survey/start.asp

I just did the F for Fuck! train, and am disappointed there was no esssay page, which besides complaints about overcrowding (well past 9pm weeknights) and wait times, would've let me say GET THE GODDAMN FREE-NEWSPAPER VENDOR OUT OF THE ALREADY CLUSTERFUCKING EXIT AT 23RD STREET!!!

I love the F; it's such a cute little line. I am getting to know the N/W. Very nice views from Queens. One thing a little weird about being on the end of the line is that the train arrives at the station but just sits there for about 5 minutes sometimes.

the Q train has been getting on my nerves lately. the running-in-two-sections thing is such a pain on weeknights (weekends too, but worse when you've got work in the morning)

The F is decidedly NOT cute in Brooklyn. Keep your f**ing stroller out of my AM rush.

^^^cosign

Yea, I loved the F when Second Avenue was my stop and I could hop on and off within Manhattan. For travel into BK, it wasn't so great, even pre-stroller days. Also, I just read the F won't be stopping at that stop between Carroll Gardens and Red Hook for the next year. Come to Queens. Astoria is definitely in the pre-stroller stage of gentrication.

what stop is that? Bergen?

fair warning: i will be on the F train with a stroller early afternoon on monday. kid needs a flu shot. we will not be coming to brooklyn, however.

early afternoon is OK!

this fall I started escorting my (post-stroller) tween to school during 8am rush on the 1 train -- ugh.

actually mid-afternoon return trip is even worse w/all the other school kids raising heck

i have still not figured out a way to get from here to school/work in less than an hour using combos of the l, g, 4, 5, n, q, 2. there is no hope. the best is when i have to work on weekends and service changes make it even longer! anyway, screw the 2nd avenue line, mta please give a way to get from north to south brooklyn without going through manhattan!! (the g does not count; it is useless)

So did you notice they announced there'll be no base fare increase, but they're still planning one for unlimited MetroCards!?

Sign here:

http://www.haltthehike.org/

I signed!

Also my new train is the G. We'll see how that goes, but for now it's a novelty.

i fall asleep almost every morning on the way to work now that my commute is just one train for 40 minutes.

but the G to what, Laurel? You have to get to Manhattan weekdaily, yes?

Being shoved into car by some old man on a packed Saturday night train at Union Square reminded me why I FUCKING HATE DECEMBER/CHRISTMAS IDIOT HORDES.

great that they're exanding the G further into brooklyn so all the Park Slope yuppies can move to kensington.

NOT GREAT is that service into queens still runs on bizarre schedules. It should run all the way to Jackson Heights EVERY TIME. That would open up a huge area of queens along Northern Blvd.

some asshat with an ipod called my friend a "fucking fatass" after he squeezeed onto a crowded L car

i find that people are pretty inconsiderate year-round

tho i guess it's a little harder when everyone's wearing bulky jackets

G to the 7, Morbs. Which so far has been fine, so much easier than the 4/5 in the AM.

It should run all the way to Jackson Heights EVERY TIME
Are you sure about this, Dan? I have never, ever seen a G train at Roosevelt, I think it is only supposed to be there at some weird hour.

regular G service through Queens would be nice - you could live cheap up there and still see your friends in now -shockingly expensive Greenpoint.

expanding the G further into brooklyn WHEN? All I saw was some vague promise. It would make my life easier, esp on weekends.

so all the Park Slope yuppies can move to kensington.

They won't be happy when they get there, not for awhile.

don't worry, they are all coming to live in crown heights with me, off the 4 express

Those people are all flooding into Sunset Park, and soon Boro Park of all places. You could drop a brownstone into floating shit barge and someone would pay 2mil for it. Will anything stop the swarm?