7 Train Riders Can Get Drunk After All!!

February 28, 2007 | 1 Comment

Elliot “Lee” Sander, the MTA executive director and chief executive, said Wednesday that weekend service on the No. 7 train could be restored for the March 17 holiday, which falls on a Saturday.

That’s right ladies and gents, lads and lassies, you too are invited to come into Manhattan for St. Patrick’s Day. But let’s not [...]

Feb

28

Muaahhh…Fun Evil

February 28, 2007 | 2 Comments

Not that we condone illegal graffiti, especially of advertisements, but this just looks too fun. Yes ladies and gentlemen, now you can print out graffiti from your home computer and stick it to subway advertisements.
Not just any graffiti either. Why bother taking out your black magic marker to give that binki model a Hitler mustache [...]

Feb

27

Top 10 Reasons You’ll Be Late

February 27, 2007 | 5 Comments

SUBWAYblogger reader Lee tipped us to this article by the Daily News about the top 10 reasons trains are thrown off schedule. What are the reasons?

Track work
Signal Trouble
Guard-light trouble (huh?)
Sick Customers
Customers holding doors
Emergency Brakes triggered; no cause found (that’s not comforting)
Broken rail (lovely)
Unruly riders
System Maintenance (isn’t that the same as #1?)
Emergency brakes triggered by signal

4,270 [...]

Feb

27

Is this a stress test?

February 27, 2007 | 1 Comment

Did you ever ride a train where the overhead speakers hum nonstop? Sometimes a hum, a ring, a buzz, or a SIREN.
Sometimes you don’t even notice it at first. Then, a few stops later, you can’t figure out why your head feels like it is going to explode.
It’s almost a cruel form of torture. Most [...]

Feb

26

Virgin Vacations Rates Subways? Bullsh*t Alert

February 26, 2007 | 4 Comments

We were tipped off to this by Gothamist, and boy does it smell of BS.
Virgin Vacations (as in British based Virgin Atlantic Airlines) rated the top 11 Underground Transit systems in the world. Well whada you know, London’s Tube came in at #1. A little bias don’t you think?
The New York City Subway didn’t even [...]

Feb

26

Now that’s entertainment

February 26, 2007 | 1 Comment

Ok so tonight’s “Live from the Subway” post is only a pseudo “live” post. I was inspired to post about this guy, but truly, only video would do it justice. So instead of writing about him while I was at 42nd Street, I decided to search YouTube for a video of him. It’s the kind [...]

Feb

26

A note to our readers

February 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Dear SUBWAYblogger readers,
We’ve recently made some changes on the backend that will hopefully improve the performance of this site. Over the past couple weeks, there has been a noticeable increase in page load time. Basically, it was taking a lot longer than it should for the main page to load.
Mainly, this is due [...]

Feb

26

Poor electronic signs, you never had a chance

February 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Yay! The electronic message boardsalong the L line are up and running. Uhhh…wait…no, maybe they aren’t. Are they broken already?
In some cases yes, and not just with quirky little bugs. It turns out that people are actually stealing the copper wiring that the signs are hooked up to! The copper cabling is very valuable, and [...]

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