/r/nycrail has plenty where that came from!

This effects Boomers, too.

Unions.

damn, should have just made another grand central station for that price

You can always leave the car. With a gangway, there’s no getting away from the crazy. It’ll just follow you.

I think the MTA invited an unhoused person to lay on the seats and hear the first "last stop!" Truly a momentous occasion.

I've been excited for years that we were going to get modern cars. Never considered the inescapable loud-ass speakers produced by the anti-social. Not even "showtime," but the solitary dudes who roll their huge speakers around.

I believe a few police officers at the capital died of injuries sustained during the riot.

Glad he's doing okay! But also, rad baby adventure bro

And so far underground that it takes too much time to get out of them!

There's an interesting historical reason for this. Before there was an MTA, NYC subways were run by private operators that were competing against one another. The was the IRT, which opened in 1904; the BMT, which incorporated in 1923; and the IND which was actually city-owned and operated, starting in 1932. It was only in 1940 that the city took over the privately operated lines. The IND and BMT lines became the B Division (the letter lines), and the narrower-gauge IRT lines because the A division (numbered lines and 42nd St shuttle). As a result of this competition, and the 20 years between IRT and the others, today you have a system with two different, incompatible track gauges.

Honestly I’ll stick to being a bartender Atleast I enjoy it

You'll have to beat me first.

Some unions have better vision and dental than anything offered by Medicare. Had, anyway.

Careful, you'll make me run for mayor!

What are these people moaning about? $150 annual deductible and max OOP of $1500 and no premiums is fantastic coverage. Hell of a lot more than most people who are stuck paying for their own coverage that's not covered by part A.

I used to work a night job in Williamsburg. I had to commute from bay ridge. It’d take me over 2 hours every single night to go one way. One night I missed a g train, the next one was 50 minutes away. It’s ridiculous. And that was after I waited 36 minutes for the r.

That’s an hour and 26 minutes, out of a total commute time of two hours and 20 minutes. Driving it takes under 20 minutes at that hour. It’s insane. Admittedly, taking the l from union square was slightly less horrific, but the long slog on the r (cause the b always runs local at night anyway) to union square almost made it even.

And the worst part was I wasn’t even going that late, I had to pick up a truck between midnight and 3 am. The wide discrepancy, ofc, was because I lost access to a motor vehicle a week into the gig.

The saving grace was that the ridiculously long commute there meant that by the time I clocked out and dropped the truck off, I’d be coming home at the opening of the morning rush & it’d take me 45 minutes to an hour.

Every other night job I’ve worked was in such a location that it just didn’t even make sense to take the train at that hour, I’d just walk miles or drive if I could. I used to love working an ambulance at night, totally different vibe than during the day..

The only exception is Queensboro Plaza.

These look like Tokyo or Seoul cars from 20 years ago. Sad.

City is going to need the feds to step in and allow conscription to fill the vacancies city and state departments are seeing.

FWIW this is a thing in many parts of the world, and technically US law doesn't limit it to military (IIRC congress must approve). So it is plausible.

I just don't see how the hell anyone could make the rational choice to work for the city at this point. You're way underpaid relative to work load, and there's no real career future for you. Benefits are going to continue to be cut. You need to really hate yourself to do it.

This is fucking ridiculous compared to the costs of similar projects in other cities like Paris.

B and D line trains won't be replaced until the end of the decade at the earliest, but mid 2030s is where I'd place my money. 1, 3, and 6 trains are slated to be replaced next, hopefully by the end of the decade

> No one needs open gangways between cars. We know to spread out on the platform.

The point of open gangways is to cram more people into the train

>No one needs red and green light indicators to warn of the train's departure. It's the subway, not the LIRR.

The door lights are an accessibility feature.

>Wider doors just mean fewer seats.

Wider doors means more people can move through them, hopefully lowering time the train spends in the station. That's the idea anyway.

>"Additional accessible seating" - how many wheelchair bound people will be in one train car? Between poor elevator coverage and wheelchair bound active adults being a small percent of the population, I think the current cars have enough flip up seats or space at the ends.

This is a joke. The amount of accessible stations is only going to go up. The accessible seating is flip-up so...???

>"Brighter lighting and signage" - hopefully not compared to the more recent trains. They're already as bright as the sun compared to the older models still running on the R line.

Hard to argue that point, they should change the color temperature of the lighting to a more warmer one.

Damn I didn’t realize that , I guess that’s also why numbered lines and lettered lines don’t share platforms . Good to know

Trump a “violent criminal”. How many ppl did he kill? And giving credence to ur assertion, how many ppl did the “violent” mob kill?