Tuesday, November 7, 2006 – 1:25 pm
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Traditionally you’re supposed to close the doors before you pull out of the station.
The Manhattan-bound A train left the Grant Ave. station in Brooklyn with some doors open late Saturday night and didn’t stop until the first […]
Friday, October 27, 2006 – 3:00 pm
If you’ve gone through or gotten off at the 47th-50th St./Rockefeller Center station lately you may have heard the conductor announcing the stop and throwing in a blurb about the “Top of the Rock” observatory on top of Rockefeller Center.
A Transit Authority bulletin tells conductors to make sure and mention the tourist destination […]
Thursday, October 26, 2006 – 9:10 am
Earlier this year the MTA blamed the freebie dailies for a spike in track fires. Yesterday they went a step further saying that discarded piles of the papers were largely responsible for the Sept. 2004 flooding that shut down most of the system.
“We have bitterly complained for a long time about what […]
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 – 8:22 am
The NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign and Transportation Alternatives awarded the fifth annual Pokey Award, a golden snail on a pedestal, to the 14th St. crosstown M14A which averages a mere 3.9 mph as it creeps across lower manhattan. A pedestrian walks around 3 mph.
NYPIRG and TA also released a list of the 18 […]
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 – 10:45 am
We’re here. We’re transgendered. We’re peeing, deal with it.
Transgender people yesterday won the right to use any bathroom they choose at MTA rail stations after a woman who sued for that privilege reached an agreement with the transit agency.
The landmark pact - which lets people use the restroom for whichever gender they […]
Monday, October 16, 2006 – 11:12 am
A prototype being developed would use new technology to sniff out possible explosives before they made their way onto the subway.
The prototype would mark you with a small amount of visible fluorescent ink as you enter the turnstile. The ink shows up under black light unless explosives are present. It’s pretty unclear […]
Friday, October 13, 2006 – 10:24 am
We got a couple of emails this morning asking us if we knew what happened to the N, R, Q lines going into Brooklyn last night.
I was on the N train coming home last night and everything was fine until after Canal Street. The train started running local, stopping for five minutes at […]
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