Comments on: ‘We yet again apologize for the unavoidable delay’ http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/02/22/we-yet-again-apologize-for-the-unavoidable-delay/ A New York City Subway Blog Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:37:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Secret Conductor http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/02/22/we-yet-again-apologize-for-the-unavoidable-delay/#comment-27289 The Secret Conductor Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:01:17 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/02/22/we-yet-again-apologize-for-the-unavoidable-delay/#comment-27289 I agree with brooklyn gal. delays due to construction vs all those other delays. Anyway here is what I think: between 12-6 delays due to construction between 10-3 delays due to construction The rest is sick passengers, police delays, unruly passenger, train service running every 3-5 minutes (on some lines), signal problems... I bet the BIGGEST problem is door related including people who hold train doors. STOP HOLDING TRAIN DOORS PLEASE. You 5-10 seconds means 10-15 seconds at the next station due to more people being there waiting. Believe me, those seconds add up down the road when your put behind another train crossing in front of you because you are now 2 minutes late. what really disturbs me is when someone holds the doors and the person they are holding it for DIDN'T EVEN PAY YET! You have to wait for them to pay, come down/up stair and get on. so anywhere between 200 and 2000 people are held up a full 30+ seconds because you CAN'T wait 4 more minutes for the next train? you do that a few times and not only are there more passengers at the later stations, now they have to wait longer. it take longer for them to get on and now you are delayed some more. You go 23 stops and the next thing you know you are 4 minutes late. Then there are the people who croud to only one door... use all the doors please!!! lol As you can see, people holding doors is a pretty big issue. what is even more funny is that it is the worst on the L line and that line runs trains every 3-6 minutes. why are you holding the doors? why are you screaming steaming upset when you miss a train? lol I agree with brooklyn gal. delays due to construction vs all those other delays.

Anyway here is what I think:
between 12-6 delays due to construction
between 10-3 delays due to construction

The rest is sick passengers, police delays, unruly passenger, train service running every 3-5 minutes (on some lines), signal problems…

I bet the BIGGEST problem is door related including people who hold train doors. STOP HOLDING TRAIN DOORS PLEASE. You 5-10 seconds means 10-15 seconds at the next station due to more people being there waiting. Believe me, those seconds add up down the road when your put behind another train crossing in front of you because you are now 2 minutes late.

what really disturbs me is when someone holds the doors and the person they are holding it for DIDN’T EVEN PAY YET! You have to wait for them to pay, come down/up stair and get on. so anywhere between 200 and 2000 people are held up a full 30+ seconds because you CAN’T wait 4 more minutes for the next train?

you do that a few times and not only are there more passengers at the later stations, now they have to wait longer. it take longer for them to get on and now you are delayed some more. You go 23 stops and the next thing you know you are 4 minutes late.

Then there are the people who croud to only one door… use all the doors please!!! lol

As you can see, people holding doors is a pretty big issue. what is even more funny is that it is the worst on the L line and that line runs trains every 3-6 minutes. why are you holding the doors? why are you screaming steaming upset when you miss a train? lol

]]> By: brooklyn gal http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/02/22/we-yet-again-apologize-for-the-unavoidable-delay/#comment-27100 brooklyn gal Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:50:54 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/02/22/we-yet-again-apologize-for-the-unavoidable-delay/#comment-27100 I think they should separate out delays due to construction from other delays. That's a number I'd be interested to see. I think they should separate out delays due to construction from other delays. That’s a number I’d be interested to see.

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