Comments for Second Ave. Sagas

Comment on North Shore Alternatives Analysis calls for SI BRT by marvin

marvin — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:25:10 +0000

Great – a faster bus ride……..to a ferry……….. to Manhattan subways. This will only take 30 years (almost as long as the trip). A comprehensive transportation is needed for the NY area. I would include:

Extend the #7 train across to the Hoboken terminal (which relieves pressure from Penn Station without the cost of a new terminal and provides East Side access) and then extend it down along I-78 (NJ Tpk Extension) and then along 440 over the Bayonne Bridge linking to the northshore line into the SIRR. If 30+ trains/hr are run both NJ and SI commuter gain a real regional link.

Give up on a NY Harbor freight crossing, but have the new Tapanzee crossing accomodate freight rail in non rush hours (rush hours use s/b for commuter rail) thus shaving hundreds of miles off the train connection into Long Island. Given this new reality, convert the Bay Ridge RR line into productive use such a Triboro Rx or a truckway).

Comment on Photo: On the matter of subway seat etiquette by Phantom

Phantom — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:14:09 +0000

This behavior makes anyone angry, buton my ( R train centered ) travels I don’t see i that often.
Anyone doing this should be arrested of course.

Comment on On the (obvious) development of subway systems by UESider

UESider — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:09:00 +0000

this is hardly insightful – I hope it didnt take a PhD to write these rules!

it sounds more like a description of the London and Chicago transit systems as well as almost every highway near a city, such as Baltimore, DC, Charlotte, Boston (somewhat), and plenty of others

i really dont see the use for this, but thanks for posting

Comment on A plan to privatize parts of East Side Access by UESider

UESider — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:02:36 +0000

i assume they’re using the term ‘core competency’ very loosely

most people tend to be at least marginally good at something they boast as their core competency… just sayin’ )

Comment on Photo: On the matter of subway seat etiquette by UESider

UESider — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:54:58 +0000

people that do things like this either have a screw loose or a chip on their shoulder. its a power issue, not an etiquette problem.

the police cant be at every corner to nab nonsense like this, at least, i would not favor increasing payroll to have enough beat cops to ticket every spitting, annoying person.

my daily commute experience is similar but quite worse…
the 2/3 coming through Brooklyn picks up a heavy set, unhappy bunch that tend to sit every other seat and overhang mightily on each side. this leaves almost every other seat empty with only enough space for the most waft and undiscriminating of types

its nearly infuriating to see a car full of empty seats under the glare of 30 seated and hostile seated passengers

i once attempted to squeeze into a seat only to have the two characters on each side scoot together a bit to further narrow the gap as i started to sit.

i’ve actually started going to work later to avoid this crowd.

Comment on Photo: On the matter of subway seat etiquette by Daniel Howard

Daniel Howard — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:33:19 +0000

Subway riders know to give the mentally disturbed their space.

Comment on Photo: On the matter of subway seat etiquette by Older and Wiser

Older and Wiser — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:18:11 +0000

Let me guess. This happened on the 4 train, where a critical mass of the underclass sets the behavioral rules during non-rush hours. In that juristiction, it’s the polite, considerate middle claSS riders who are out of step, and who had better watch their Ps and Qs.

Just one of many reason’s middle class east siders can’t wait for the SAS to enter service. And why the last thing they they would ever want to see would be a SAS phase two that linked up with the 4 train at 125th street.

Comment on North Shore Alternatives Analysis calls for SI BRT by Bolwerk

Bolwerk — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:15:11 +0000

Hmm. I guess it would have fallen under NJ Transit anyway. Another possibility for OnTrack might have been a museum waiver.

Comment on North Shore Alternatives Analysis calls for SI BRT by Anon256

Anon256 — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:09:44 +0000

Since the list includes Champlain Flyer it must be from 2003 or earlier, at which time the River Line did not yet exist.

Comment on Between the MTA and its contractors, a symbiotic relationship by Larry Littlefield

Larry Littlefield — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:59:41 +0000

The complete reconstruction of the 1/9 from Chambers Street to South Ferry, in less than one year after 9/11.

Yes they can accomplish that. They just don’t.