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By: After the snow, mid-week travel woes on the IND :: Second Ave. Sagas | A New York City Subway Blog

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:08:23 +0000

[...] the MTA called off all weekend work on February 5, the agency knew it was taking a gamble. Snow was in the forecast, but chances of a [...]

By: AK

AK — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:30:22 +0000

Sean, it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, although it can certainly be argued that privately-owned stations have a significant incentive to be more sensational in their broadcasts, since sensationalism (storm-of-the-century) increases viewership, and in turn, ad revenue. If the Weather Channel were owned and operated by the National Weather Service, I think we’d see less sensationalism.

By: Alon Levy

Alon Levy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:16:21 +0000

Last summer, I was in Shanghai, where I took the busiest line, Line 1, at peak hour in the peak direction. There were no professional pushers there, but people had to push themselves in to get on the train. The overall traffic on Line 1 is higher than this on New York’s 4, 5, and 6 trains combined; while Line 1 has symmetric demand, unlike the predominantly southbound travel pattern on the 4/5/6, the crowding levels I observed are still much higher than those on the Lex trains.

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:09:50 +0000

OT: Anyone clicking on the link in Gothamist’s article “Shanghaiist got shoved into overcrowded subways by new professional subway shover”
be advised that Malwarebytes (I sue a pay version of this software) says China Daily Newspaper is using malicious code. Malware or Trojan therein. Clickers beware.

By: SEAN

SEAN — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:46:33 +0000

What does NBC’s & Blackstone Group ownership of the Weather Channel have to do with forcasting a snowstorm?

By: Alon Levy

Alon Levy — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:05:00 +0000

The 24-hour forecasts are accurate 95% of the time.

In The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki claims that weather forecasters are the only experts who are routinely right – when they say there’s X% chance of snow, X% of the time there will be snow.

And I’m not sure what you mean by “the weather becomes a political issue.” If you’re talking about climate change, then it’s a separate issue – climate predictions (“the average temperature around 2100 will be 2 degrees warmer than in 2000″) work differently from weather predictions (“the high temperature tomorrow will be -2″).

By: petey

petey — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:55:21 +0000

“Station Stops: Metro-North Schedules for iPhone”

time seems to run backwards in their ad

By: AK

AK — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:15:27 +0000

What do you expect from a station owned by NBC and Blackstone

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:34:16 +0000

Snowbirds are trains sent into storage underground on revenue tracks to keep them away from the snow/ice.

Though it looks like NYCT jumped the gun here. Barely anything for the city to even warrant Plan 4 action.

By: Jerrold

Jerrold — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:58:18 +0000

I thought snowbirds were people who spend every winter in Florida.

Do you mean work trains with some kind of plows to clear the outddor tracks, or what?