The only blog written from the NYC Subway system

New numbers recently released show that subway ridership in the first 6 months of 2007 was 4% HIGHER than the same time period in 2006. Only 4%?  That’s not much, right?   Wrong! When you figure in the actual raw numbers, it’s huge.  There’s already been about a billion subway rides this year.  BILLION! The [...]

  Mayor Bloomberg went on a little trip to London this week.  He liked what he saw in their public transporation system.  All of their busses and subways have 2 to 3 cameras in each car. I think it is a great idea.  It will hopefully make us safer…that’s obvious.  But what I’m really hoping [...]

Well, I felt inspired by a friend’s first subway ride this past weekend. I started poking around the blogosphere, and I found that a lot of people write about a their crazy subway experiences. So, I went to the blog search engines and typed in “crazy subway ride.” Here’s some of the highlights. Bamboo Soldiers: [...]

Apparently, people have been trying to post comments, but have not been able to.  This is because SUBWAYblogger recently upgraded to WordPress 2.3, and the anti-comment spam utility is not compatible.  So, we’ve taken that down.  You may resume commenting!

Honestly, how long should a subway platform renovation really take? Entire 10 story buildings have been built in the time it has taken for them to set up partitions at the 59th Street/Columbus Circle station. Ok, I can understand that the physical platforms where the trains arrive can be a little tricky. Clearly, you have [...]