My peeves are big people who see a space between you and another passenger and feel they are small enough to fit in there, squishing you to the point where you can’t move and expect YOU to get up (hello…I was here first biznitches); ghetto high school kiddies who threaten to throw other passengers off the train, trying to look all tough; people who are in such a hurry getting off the train trying to catch their PATH or MetroNorth trains that they push you nearly to the ground trying to run to get there; at Penn Station when they won’t let you either leave or enter the turnstiles because they’re in such a rush to get through, and will yell at you even though every other turnstile has people going in the opposite direction as you.

If I recall correctly the MTA only refers to platforms as either being northbound or southboud. It goes along with how the schedules for each line are layed out. The schedules for every line are labled northbound & southbound.

My own pet peeve in the subway is the tolken clerks (is that an outdated phrase) with no sense of direction whatsoever. For example in Queens when the line is running under Queens Boulevard its running from East to West… but they insist on calling them “Northbound” and “Southbound” platforms. Uh… it’s either Eastbound or Westbound you dimwits!

my peeve is people who read my newspaper while i’m reading it, pole huggers, wailing babies and screaming children, and people that try to get on the train before everyone has exited.