Amtrak Strike Will Be a Subway Disaster

January 14, 2008 | 6 Comments

Amtrak workers could go on strike as early as January 30th. As with all strikes, there’s a much broader impact than you first think.
An Amtrak strike has affect on virtually all rail related travel. What most people don’t realize is Amtrak controls the signals coming in and out of Penn Station. This means all the [...]

Dec

31

Getting to Times Square on New Year’s Eve

December 31, 2007 | 2 Comments

It’s time for the city to get rid of 2007 and move on to 2008 like only we can. It’s time for the shit-show known as New Year’s Eve in Times Square.
Ask any New Yorker that has been around here for a few years or more. They’ll likely tell you the last place on earth [...]

Dec

19

Light Holiday Shopping Rush?

December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Well it is usually this time of the year that I run out of Christmas cheer. It’s about this time that I am ready to kill people on the subway.
Most of it has to do with obnoxious tourists and their 25 shopping bags cramming into the train cars.
See if you can relate to this scenario. [...]

Jul

4

NYC 4th of July Madness

July 4, 2007 | 3 Comments

Did you venture to the Lower East Side last night for fireworks? Remember your umbrella? Well, SUBWAYblogger did.
It wasn’t bad getting there really. We transferred at Times Square and took the downtown N train. Not much waiting time at around 7:30pm. Took that down to 23rd Street.
Since we got there a little ahead of schedule, [...]

Jun

17

Subway Congestion Fare: 50 Cents

June 17, 2007 | 6 Comments

Ok, so this proposal was announced last week, and…well…I needed a few days to ponder my reaction. No matter how hard I thought about it, all I was left with was: “WTF?”
Let’s discuss.
The New York State Assembly basically wants to 1) pick a fight and 2) ride on the “green” coat tails of [...]

Apr

29

Evil fun with Red Sox fans

April 29, 2007 | 4 Comments

So yesterday afternoon, SUBWAYblogger went to the Yankees vs Red Sox game (which by the way the Yankees finally won). Getting up there was a complete nightmare. Like a complete idiot, SUBWAYblogger forgot that the A and C lines were scheduled to be all F-ed up.
First, there’s no C trains at all. Damn. Then, the [...]

Apr

23

New NYC Subway Map: Keep it or KICK it?

April 23, 2007 | 5 Comments

Have you seen the new (sorta) KICK map for the subway. It’s a new subway map concept by a design firm that thinks they have a better way to demonstrate how the subway lines run.

So you get the basic idea by seeing the side by side comparison above. The KICK map has a [...]

Mar

27

Annoying Subway People (Part 2)

March 27, 2007 | 10 Comments

Editor’s note: Todd is a guest blogger from Blog Name Removed.
On Wednesday March 14th, I posted my list of Annoying Subway people. I got a lot of fun responses to the list, so I planned on doing a follow-up. But then I thought about it. I thought, “Am I mocking other people because I don’t [...]

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