Comments on: Breaking: MTA announces plan to shutter subways at night

By: Report: MTA’s new austerity plan literally a return to the 1970s :: Second Ave. Sagas

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:42:42 +0000

[...] on the state of our subways. Two years ago on April Fool’s Day, I wrote about how the MTA had just announced plans to shutter the subway at night. It seemed just plausible enough to rope people in but not realistic enough for the MTA to [...]

By: MTA facing Doomsday as Senate negotiations break down :: Second Ave. Sagas | A New York City Subway Blog

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:39:52 +0000

[...] year, on April 1, I ran a post with the headline “MTA announces plan to shutter subways at night.” At the time, any plan to close or reduce subway capacity seemed so far from the minds of [...]

By: The Boss

The Boss — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:44:07 +0000

My friend, LOL, nice April Fools prank, and I just heard London and Tokyo are starting to run trains round the clock.

If this was real, New Yorkers and the traveling public will give the MTA their 2 cents. There is no physical way to close all 468 subway station at 12:30am weeknights and 2:30am on weekends. Technocially, that’s imposible.

By: R2

R2 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:08:15 +0000

OMG! My heart stopped! Damn April Fools!

Considering all the clubbing and bar-hopping I do, this would seriously curtail my nighttime economic activities.

By: Eric the BeehiveHairdresser

Eric the BeehiveHairdresser — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:50:49 +0000

You are a cruel man for this.

By: Fred Camino

Fred Camino — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:13:12 +0000

HAHA! What's great is this is the EXACT OPPOSITE of the prank I pulled over at MetroRiderLA: "Metro Introducing 24-Hour Rail Service On Weekends Starting in May You New Yorkers have it really hard, ya know?

By: Pjason325

Pjason325 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:53:14 +0000

Very funny!

By: StationStops

StationStops — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:33:01 +0000

OMG I almost blogged this.

Todd’s right, don’t give MTA any ideas.

I wish we could just but NYC transit back up for bids to a new company.

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:05:20 +0000

You know, I knew before I clicked into your site that this would be an April Fools post. Even with that knowledge, it still felt real.

Also, if The MTA reads this and takes it as good advice, I’m blaming you!

By: Winston

Winston — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:26:50 +0000

Oh you son of a…

And after being tricked three other times today!!! I have no learning curve.