i’m wondering if we could clean up the NYC subway with a combination of honey badgers and roombas. honey badgers because they don’t care and roombas because they are awesome.
Tag: transit
MTA Entrances nonsense
what is the gain from closing subway entrances in a 24/7 system, like in nyc?
Subway cleaning
deep cleaning of the 148th Street / Lenox stop. there are a few other smelly stations that could use some water.
Yeah right, MTA
Silliest MTA PSA: “don’t display cell phones or other electronic devices.”
BART Seats
Fecal and skin-borne bacteria resistant to antibiotics were found in a seat on a train headed from Daly City to Dublin/Pleasanton. Further testing on the skin-borne bacteria showed characteristics of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, the drug-resistant bacterium that causes potentially lethal infections, although Franklin cautioned that the MRSA findings were preliminary.
People who deserve it
There’s nothing worse than a cold shoulder to the face as you try to leave the train for work. It reminds you:
a) That you actually have to go to work
b) Work is in a cubicle
c) Most people in this world are so dumb, it’s sadThe thing is, we can look past not being able to locate Iraq on a map, or believing every word posted on Wikipedia is fact. What we can’t comprehend is how people think trying to get on a packed train first, before others have exited, is a good idea. It’s fucking mind-blowing.
We just don’t get it, we really don’t. It’s almost as if these humans aren’t human at all, but in fact brainless salmon people, desperately trying to swim upstream any chance they get.
If that’s the case, and we’re pretty sure it is, the best way to clear a path through these creepy fish folk is to cast a couple right hands and see who bites.
Google Transit Holdouts
3 years after the launch of Google Transit, which gives directions using transit on Google Maps, and after constant requests by riders and bloggers, WMATA announced their decision that participating in Google Transit is “not in our best interest from a business perspective.” That’s a very shortsighted decision.
why are they so confused? running a web site is not their line of business.
Google Maps NYC Ad
Google has stepped up as the next concern to wrap a train, wrapping 3 exterior cars with an advertisement for Google Maps, slightly less understated then the History Channel’s ad, if such a thing could be, as Google has only wrapped the exterior of the train, leaving the interior with the more traditional ads we are used to seeing in the square displays or banners up top.
looks nice
AAA Urges Transit
We are in the midst of a crisis. People have to be very discreet in their use of motor vehicles. If you can, use public transport.
i look forward to 5, 6, 7$ gas.
Letting 9 YO Ride the Subway Alone
for weeks my boy had been begging for me to please leave him somewhere, anywhere, and let him try to figure out how to get home on his own. So on that sunny Sunday I gave him a subway map, a MetroCard, a $20 bill, and several quarters, just in case he had to make a call.
No, I did not give him a cell phone. Didn’t want to lose it. And no, I didn’t trail him, like a mommy private eye. I trusted him to figure out that he should take the Lexington Avenue subway down, and the 34th Street crosstown bus home. If he couldn’t do that, I trusted him to ask a stranger. And then I even trusted that stranger not to think, “Gee, I was about to catch my train home, but now I think I’ll abduct this adorable child instead.”
Long story short: My son got home, ecstatic with independence.
good for her. there are enough sheeple with a safety fetish already.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 