Comments on: Subway delays picking up http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/10/06/subway-delays-picking-up/ A New York City Subway Blog Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:56:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Todd http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/10/06/subway-delays-picking-up/#comment-53994 Todd Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:57:42 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=1464#comment-53994 ...and it's people like you literally who look down at a woman while she's being attacked. …and it’s people like you literally who look down at a woman while she’s being attacked.

]]> By: eric http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/10/06/subway-delays-picking-up/#comment-53504 eric Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:02:34 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=1464#comment-53504 Simply put the rules that are SRTICTLY enforced about leaving there booth may be flawed. The problem is with management NOT with the hard working blue collar guy just trying to make ends meet. The MTA doesn't want there employees to help passengers in any dangerous situation. They are instructed to call for help which this clerk did. It's people like you that always want to look down on the worker who follows rules rather than the management who makes these rules and NEVER bends on enforcing them! Simply put the rules that are SRTICTLY enforced about leaving there booth may be flawed. The problem is with management NOT with the hard working blue collar guy just trying to make ends meet.

The MTA doesn’t want there employees to help passengers in any dangerous situation. They are instructed to call for help which this clerk did.

It’s people like you that always want to look down on the worker who follows rules rather than the management who makes these rules and NEVER bends on enforcing them!

]]> By: Todd http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/10/06/subway-delays-picking-up/#comment-53491 Todd Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:04:27 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=1464#comment-53491 Carrying a stroller vs helping a woman who is being attacked. Are you completely insane? Carrying a stroller vs helping a woman who is being attacked.

Are you completely insane?

]]> By: eric http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/10/06/subway-delays-picking-up/#comment-53439 eric Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:11:30 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=1464#comment-53439 OK so lets say you intervene and then you get fired, now you can't support your family. That is an easy choice. I know a conductor who a few years ago helped a woman carry her stroller with a child inside up a flight of subway stairs. The woman intentionally dropped her end and sued the TA. The conductor was fired immediately!!!!! He is now a cop but it could have worked out much worse. OK so lets say you intervene and then you get fired, now you can’t support your family. That is an easy choice.

I know a conductor who a few years ago helped a woman carry her stroller with a child inside up a flight of subway stairs. The woman intentionally dropped her end and sued the TA. The conductor was fired immediately!!!!! He is now a cop but it could have worked out much worse.

]]> By: Todd http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/10/06/subway-delays-picking-up/#comment-53383 Todd Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:09:22 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=1464#comment-53383 Possibility of being fired vs saving a woman who is being attacked. Wow. Possibility of being fired vs saving a woman who is being attacked.

Wow.

]]> By: Ellie http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/10/06/subway-delays-picking-up/#comment-53278 Ellie Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:44:12 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=1464#comment-53278 Dag. I don't even know what to say about that. Dag. I don’t even know what to say about that.

]]> By: Gary http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/10/06/subway-delays-picking-up/#comment-53171 Gary Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:20:02 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=1464#comment-53171 This morning they announced at Bergen that we'd be running over the G line. I stayed on to switch to an A at Hoyt Schermerhorn. A train was going nowhere due to backups from a brake problem at 59th Street. Walked to a 4/5, had to wait for second train b/c first one was packed solid. The other night, I faced this: V train from 53rd to Rock Center. Hop on F train - Home free! Not so fast. We're running on the B line. Escape at Broadway Lafayette for downtown 6, switch to a 4 at City Hall, switch to a C at Fulton/Broadway-Nassau, finally switch back to my F train at Jay Street and make it home to Carroll Gardens. 6 train commute - beats my old record from the flood last year - less walking though. Things are definitely getting worse. This morning they announced at Bergen that we’d be running over the G line. I stayed on to switch to an A at Hoyt Schermerhorn. A train was going nowhere due to backups from a brake problem at 59th Street.

Walked to a 4/5, had to wait for second train b/c first one was packed solid.

The other night, I faced this: V train from 53rd to Rock Center. Hop on F train – Home free! Not so fast. We’re running on the B line. Escape at Broadway Lafayette for downtown 6, switch to a 4 at City Hall, switch to a C at Fulton/Broadway-Nassau, finally switch back to my F train at Jay Street and make it home to Carroll Gardens.

6 train commute – beats my old record from the flood last year – less walking though.

Things are definitely getting worse.

]]> By: eric http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/10/06/subway-delays-picking-up/#comment-53155 eric Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:56:43 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=1464#comment-53155 If that MTA clerk would have left his booth to try and help that woman he would have been fired!!! It is against the TA's policies and they have ZERO sympathy for employees unless they are upper managment! This is a tragic story that happens way to often because there isn't enough of a human presence in the subways at night. The police spend most of there time hiding and sleeping in the TA employee crew facilities and unmanned towers throughout the system. If that MTA clerk would have left his booth to try and help that woman he would have been fired!!! It is against the TA’s policies and they have ZERO sympathy for employees unless they are upper managment!

This is a tragic story that happens way to often because there isn’t enough of a human presence in the subways at night. The police spend most of there time hiding and sleeping in the TA employee crew facilities and unmanned towers throughout the system.

]]> By: Joe http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/10/06/subway-delays-picking-up/#comment-53152 Joe Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:49:05 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=1464#comment-53152 Sick passengers all over the place this morning. My packed uptown 4 train stopped at 8:30am around Bleecker St., because of a "sick passenger at Union Square." As we sat there for 5 minutes or so, a woman near me almost fainted (a sick passenger due to a sick passenger?), but someone was nice enough to give her a seat. Then the train crept into Union Square, and (after letting everyone on and off the train), the conductor announced that the sick passenger was actually at Grand Central (or was there a new sick passenger?), and that we should take the 6 train. This caused another stampede off that 4 train and onto another 4 train, which was running local because of the sick passenger(s). Good times. Sick passengers all over the place this morning. My packed uptown 4 train stopped at 8:30am around Bleecker St., because of a “sick passenger at Union Square.” As we sat there for 5 minutes or so, a woman near me almost fainted (a sick passenger due to a sick passenger?), but someone was nice enough to give her a seat. Then the train crept into Union Square, and (after letting everyone on and off the train), the conductor announced that the sick passenger was actually at Grand Central (or was there a new sick passenger?), and that we should take the 6 train. This caused another stampede off that 4 train and onto another 4 train, which was running local because of the sick passenger(s). Good times.

]]> By: Chris http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/10/06/subway-delays-picking-up/#comment-53128 Chris Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:53:06 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=1464#comment-53128 One thing that I realized while riding the trains is that the operators don't always give the passengers the full story of whats going on. When it looks like there could be a delay, I fire up the radio scanner I carry with me to listen to the dispatcher to figure out what is really going on. I've found that you frequently get better and more timely information this way. If you're interested, here are the main frequencies to listen on with a FM scanner: <code> IRT: 161.190 MHz BMT: 161.505 MHz IND: 161.565 MHz</code> Other interesting frequencies include the Transit Police frequencies. More information on relevant frequencies to listen on (and the districts map for the NYCTPD) are collected by a ham radio operator here: <a href="http://www.n2nov.net/transit.html" rel="nofollow">N2NOV.net</a>. Happy travels. -Chris One thing that I realized while riding the trains is that the operators don’t always give the passengers the full story of whats going on. When it looks like there could be a delay, I fire up the radio scanner I carry with me to listen to the dispatcher to figure out what is really going on.

I’ve found that you frequently get better and more timely information this way. If you’re interested, here are the main frequencies to listen on with a FM scanner:


IRT: 161.190 MHz
BMT: 161.505 MHz
IND: 161.565 MHz

Other interesting frequencies include the Transit Police frequencies. More information on relevant frequencies to listen on (and the districts map for the NYCTPD) are collected by a ham radio operator here: N2NOV.net.

Happy travels.
-Chris

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