Well, if you have eyes, you can see that the weather is complete crap today. There’s going to be tons of flooding, especially in the subway tunnels.
So, let us know in the comments section of this post if you experience any service delays while out and about today. We will post them all here. Everyone knows that the MTA site is stupidly slow when it comes to posting alerts, so we will have to rely on eachother.
The MTA has released renderings of potential subway entrances along the Second Avenue line. They look pretty cool. I’d settle for a boring industrial look if it meant spending less money on this project, but whatever.
Anyway, the subway line isn’t going to be done for what….10 or more years at least? So why would you mock up something as trendy as this so early in advance? Who knows that will be the style a decade from now?
Maybe by then, the abstract, idustrial look will be out. Or maybe there will be better technology that would allow a cooler look.
Anyway, should we be picking out the wall paper and paint colors just yet? Or would it be better to wait unil…ohhh…a year or two before the project is done?
Seriously? It’s not expected to be of the snow variety, but there’s tons of rain expected. 50 MPH winds too.
That will make for a lovely Sunday night/Monday morning subway commute. Usually, a little rain doesn’t cause too many delays. A ton of rain, however, will mess things up all over.
The system will be in the midst of swithing from light weekend service to regular weekday service. So, there will already be fewer trains rolling when the storm begins. Flooding then usually causes poweroutages. So getting the weekday trains back online will probably be slow.
Long story short, your Monday morning commute has major f **k-up potential.
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Ok fine, SUBWAYblogger completely wussed out of going to the ceremony today. It ended up that it was inside the previously existing subway tunnel, so it was out of the rain.
It still sucked that they were requiring the press to arrive at 9am for a 10:30am event. That’s a little lame.
But I did get to watch it on NY1, so that was cool (and dry).
I wish I had thought of live blogging the ceremony like Jenn at Gothmist did. The rain must have washed away my creative juices 🙂 .
Example:
10:30: No groundbreaking ceremony yet. The MTA is already behind schedule on the 2nd Avenue Subway! Clearly a sign of things to come!
So over all, the ceremony wasn’t that exciting. Still would have been cool to be there to video tape it. Maybe I’ll attend when the first train runs down the line.
In light of this morning’s driving rain, SUBWAYblogger will not be attending the ground breaking for the Second Avenue line. Hell, they may have even postponed it, who knows.
They were requiring that the press check in by 9am for the ceremony that wasn’t supposed to start until 10:30am. Screw that! I’m not standing around for an hour and a half on a dry day let alone in the pouring rain.
Instead, there’s plenty of other news to cover in the city. Sharpton’s attempt to remain politically relevant outside CBS, Bill Clinton will be at an event downtown, Arnold Swartzenegger (sp?) will be giving a speech in the city today, and the elephants are going to cruise the floor at MSG. So, there’s plenty of “less wet” news to cover.
Unfortunately, none of it is subway related. Boooo.
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In light of this morning’s driving rain, SUBWAYblogger will not be attending the ground breaking for the Second Avenue line. Hell, they may have even postponed it, who knows.
They were requiring that the press check in by 9am for the ceremony that wasn’t supposed to start until 10:30am. Screw that! I’m not standing around for an hour and a half on a dry day let alone in the pouring rain.
Instead, there’s plenty of other news to cover in the city. Sharpton’s attempt to remain politically relevant outside CBS, Bill Clinton will be at an event downtown, Arnold Swartzenegger (sp?) will be giving a speech in the city today, and the elephants are going to cruise the floor at MSG. So, there’s plenty of “less wet” news to cover.
Unfortunately, none of it is subway related. Boooo.
Live from the subway, back to you in studio…
Tomorrow is the ground breaking for the 2nd Avenue Subway! No seriously, it’s really happening.
There’s no stopping it now. The shovels hit the dirt…again. That’s right, again.
Back in 1972, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor John Lindsay participated in a ground breaking for preliminary construction of a Second Avenue subway. That tunnel was planned to run from 101st to 120th. They even had more ceremonies in 1974 and 1975.
However, in 1975, the MTA ran short of funds after already spending $1.3 billion. That’s billion with a “B.” All work on the project stopped. Mayor Abraham Beame ordered the tunnel to be sealed in 1975.
So there Gov. Spitzer and others will stand in the site of the reopened tunnel to participate in tomorrow’s ground breaking (or is it re-breaking?).
SUBWAYblogger hopes to be on hand to witness the historic moment in person.
SUBWAYblogger is officially OVER this cold weather, but dreading the heat. Yes, basically screwed either way.
The cold snaps are just getting old. I’m tired of having to wear bulky jackets. I’m especially tired of it because it’s too cold to not have a jacket on the street, but then it’s just warm enough to sweat your ass off in the subway.
Unfortunately, after it starts to warm up, it will only be a matter of a few days before the subway turns into an oven. So, it will go from sweating in a light jacket to sweating in your skin.
Gross.
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The Interboro College ads on the subway are starting to bug the shit out of me.
Become a paralegal. Become an Accountant. Become a Medical Office Assistant.
How about Become a Better College.
Any college advertisment that has the phrase, “No HS Diploma or GED? No problem…” is a pretty bullshit place if you ask me. Earn your HS equivalency while you study at Interboro Institute? I had no idea that you could go to High School and College at the same time. Like an idiot, I did them one after the other.
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Underground foot traffic already seems lower this week. I think it is because there aren’t as many school trips in the city this week.
Last week, schools all over the Tri-State and New England were off for Easter. So a lot of schools and youth groups plan trips to NYC. Everywhere you turned last week, there were groups of 30 or 50 high school kids.
SUBWAYblogger isn’t really “against” the school trips. Hell, that’s how we were first exposed to this grand city back in our youth. But, the extra bodies can really screw up your commute.
50 kids all trying to get in the same subway car at 8:30am can mess things up. Pure dread comes over you when you are walking down the stairs to your platform, and you see a group of them standing in “your waiting area.”
They also tend to move like a herd. So if you get stuck behind them while making a dash for a connection, good luck!
Anyway, I think this week should be a little less crowded with school trips. We should be in good shape until May/June when it becomes “Senior Class Trip” season. Yikes.
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