Did my undergrad and graduate work in northern California. Somehow, MUNI and BART both did their track work between 9pm and 6am and tried very hard to get the lines all back to normal by morning rush hour.

But aside from that, I don't really see improvement during weekday service from track work. Still sucks.

Those of us who are in our 50s lived through really bad NYC crime when we were teens. But the trains were so freaking reliable. Fast. Frequent. Reliable. Yeah, they were all graffitied up. Yeah, they weren't safe. But you chose one of the conductor's car, and it was always OK. Coming home from a night partying was awesome. Even in the dead of night, you'd wait maybe 20 minutes.

These days I can wait 20 minutes during rush hour!

I actually didn’t even know there were omny cards, I thought it was just the touchless phone uses….

Hard work? I see a few people working and a dozen standing around.

except other cities do it during off hours to minimize amount of people affected

Never forget the MTA workers that destroyed their time clock rather than be paid for the hours they actually worked.

Problem Is there's not enough time to get much work done. Most of these repairs take longer than a few hours to complete. It also takes hours to setup and get everything tested and ready for service.

For simple stuff that works and most work can even be done under traffic. But for heavy duty stuff like that, there's not much that can be done without inconviniencing someone.

The track panel that is being lifted by the crane has just been removed, so until that panel is lowered to the ground and the replacement panel is lifted there isn't much to do.

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I’ve been harping on the lack of continuous rail since I moved to NYC. So glad they are finally making a change

Boot licking for the MTA is wild my guy.

Or, you know, spread out over the richest taxpayers. Just sayin

I live in an elevated line, and for about 9 months we didn't have uptown local service because of track replacement. The yanked out the old segmented track and replaced it with continuous track. It's a massive improvement to the quality of life in the neighborhood. The clacking noise of the wheels hitting the seams between track segments is gone, it was well worth the wait.

My only complaint is that when they upgraded the station (a separate year-long closure), they weren't able to install an elevator to either platform from the street. Our station remains inaccessible, which is, I think, a failure on the part of the redesign plan.

I see more people standing around than actually working. The only hard work happening is taxpayer spending

Don’t be upset cuz you work a job that quite literally only exists in a 21st century environment where you need useless bean counters to sit at home all day long

Which entails helping accused criminals get away with it.

They help as many guilty people as innocent ones likely more guilty people actually.

It is their duty

You’re wrong

What do you do for a living?

1-4 am or when statistics show are the quietest periods. If it goes over into 6-7 am, that's fine but at least use the quietest windows to start.

100% agreed. I'd gladly pay additional local, state, and federal taxes if it meant that nobody in the US needed to pay to use "public" transit. I wonder how much that would cost, spread out over all the tax payers

I’m sure you have relevant work background to make a statement like that

I’m sure you’ve toiled in construction and you’re totally not some thin gangly redditor who works from home and never leaves the house. Definitely not.

You must be in crack. NYC is not safe at all.

So 5 people doing the work.

30 people watching.

Typical.

Same thing with cops. A crime happens. 20 cops show up for a 2 person job.

Tell me I'm wrong.

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everyone in that picture makes 500k a year

More like 10 years. Occasionally a year with good service.