WordPress released a beta version of their new publishing app for Blackberry. All I can say is FINALLY!
I’ve been waiting for this for years. Glad it is finally getting done.
Now I can better control the site while riding the subway.
Category: This just in
Is that 17 Sacagawea’s in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Happy fare hike Monday. Actually, the fares jumped over the weekend, but most of us wouldn’t have noticed until today.
So now that we have a $2.25 fare, your pants just got heavier. How so? Well, if you buy a single ride with a $5 bill, you’re going to get back two dollar coins plus 3 quarters. Awesome.
God help you if you paid for it with a $20. That’s 17 dollar coins plus 3 quarters.
$20 bill goes in, 20 coins come out.
Granted, even a few days ago, it still would have been 18 dollar coins…but still. It’s pretty insane.
The bigger problem is going to be the little old ladies that have to break out their coin purse full of nickels to get up to the 25 cents. You know there ain’t no damn way grandma is going to break another dollar if she doesn’t have to.
At least the machines don’t take pennies!
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Just finished putting together the very first issue. The “Disgusting Story of the Month” is sure to make you not eat for days. And you’ll never look at a garden hose the same way again.
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SUBWAYblogger’s iPhone App Cheat Sheet
One of the more frequent emails SUBWAYblogger receives has to do with the plethora of subway related iPhone apps.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there are more iPhones out on the subway than ever. All of a sudden, everywhere you look, someone is rocking out on one. They’re either listening to music, watching a video, playing a game, or all of the above.
So we decided to put together a master list of our favorite iPhone Subway apps. We’re calling it SUBWAYblogger’s iPhone App Cheat Sheet.
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We’ve tried all of these apps, and like them all. Only the good ones made the list. Luckily, many of the developers hooked us up with free demos so we didn’t have to buy all of them. So the ones that made the cut are here.
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Baby Almost Born on Subway
Maybe next time, take a cab?
Jeanie Colberg was on the 4 train with her young daughter on the way to the hospital yesterday when her water broke.
Luckily, a good samaritan was there to comfort her and calm her down a bit. At Union Square, EMS workers were there to handle the rest. She ended up giving birth to a 7 pound baby in the back of the ambulance.
She even gave the baby her middle name, Rochelle, after a transit worker that assisted her.
I don’t know for a fact that she was on the way to the hospital because she was in labor. If not, it’s a pretty freaky coincidence.
So let’s assume she was in labor, would you really take the 4 train? I’m personally gonna go with NO. It’s either 911, or take a cab. Even if you’re a bit light on the cab fare, I’m pretty sure they’d let you get away with it.
SUBWAY Monthly Newsletter
Introducing SUBWAY Monthly by SUBWAYblogger.
We here at SUBWAYblogger have decided to offer a monthly newsletter product just for true subway riders. There’s really nothing like this out in the market right now. So instead of bitching about it, we’ve decided to take matters into our own hands.
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SUBWAY Monthly will be a…wait for it…monthly newsletter with tons of insider tips, stories, offers, deals, comedic out-takes and more.
What the heck does that mean?
Well for example, did you know that SUBWAYblogger gets sent dozens of emails from companies every month looking to give away their stuff on SUBWAYblogger.com? Most of the time we tell them to take a hike. If they want to buy some advertising, we’d be happy to feature their stuff. If we put all of it up, the site would soon look messier than Billy Mays’s underpants after snorting lines of Oxy Clean.
On the other hand, some of the stuff is actually pretty good. So we’ll make those offers (only the good ones) to SUBWAY Monthly subscribers.
Some stories are a little more vulgar colorful than even we would publish. I know, you’re thinking to yourself, “Wait, they actually have worse stories?” YEAH. You can’t even imagine some of the submissions we receive. So we’ll pick the best of the bunch to include in the subscription only version, SUBWAY Monthly.
You may or may not know that the SUBWAYblogger crew has a life outside the tunnels. As a matter of fact, most of us are pretty well connected. So we hear about things from our political connections all the time. Elliot Sander resigning? Ha…old news. Unfortunately, many of our sources frown upon us publishing the gritty details on the site. So we either have to find creative ways around it, or not publish it. Those little gossip nuggets will also find their way into SUBWAY Monthly.Read More »
Another Nail in the Fare Hike Coffin
Aaaand we inch ever closer to the $2.50 single ride and the $103 monthly unlimited. The final vote is Wednesday.
- Gov. Paterson to MTA: Go ahead with Doomsday budget
- How Will You Cope With Higher Fares?
- MTA Committee Proposes Big Subway Fare Hike
I don’t claim to be that good at math, but eventually the unlimited card is just not worth it. I mean, the average commuter is going to take the train twice a day, 5 days a week, 4 weeks a month. That’s 40 total rides. At $2.50 a ride, that’s $100.
Eventually, I think I’m just going to buy a $100 regular card and get my extra 6 free rides ($15). There’s rarely a month that goes by where I take 6 rides on the weekend. When I head out on the weekend, I’m usually cabbing it up.
SUBWAYblogger MIA
Sorry we’ve been missing in action the last few weeks. We’re getting back on track ASAP (pun intended).
It’s been an insane few weeks around the office, and it has totally dominated every waking moment. The thought of writing even more, even via Blackberry on the train, was overwhelming.
Things are finally calming down, so we’re hoping for a triumphant return.
In the mean time, the long awaited South Ferry station has finally opened. I did, however, think the water main break yesterday was kind of funny. Here they are launching the new South Ferry station, yet 1 trains were terminating at 14th Street because of the water around Canal Street.
Anyway, here’s what people are saying:
Subway Ridership Breaks All Time Record High
Subway (and bus) ridership in 2008 hit an all time high according to a report released by the MTA.
There were 2.37 billion subway and bus rides. That’s billion with a B. Billion. Can you even fathom that number? It blows my mind.
That big number represents a 3.1% increase.
Of that, there were 1.62 billion subway rides, a 3.9% increase. That’s the highest ridership since 1950.
Who cares about all of this? You should. Why?
Because the MTA is such a financial disaster, they are actually trying to cut services. That’s right…CUT. They want to cut service in a system has a growing demand of 3%+ each year. That makes no sense at.
With demand increasing due to gas prices, a tanking economy, and increased home residential living, there has never been a time where investing in mass transportation made more sense.
Person Killed by Subway Train at 116th Street
Around 7:30am, a report of a person struck by a train went out across police radios.
The incident occurred around 116th Street & Broadway on the Uptown 1 line. The thing we find odd is the report that the person was dead on arrival between 116th and 125th. That makes it sound like the person may have been in the tunnel when they were hit. That’s just an assumption.
Typically, people that jump or fall off the platform die right there. There’s no report of the bodies being found “between” stops.
However, I suppose it is possible that he person was hit and dragged as the train pulled out of the station.
The incident tied up trains for hours right in the heart of rush hour. Beyond that, not too many details are available. That makes me think that it was probably a homeless person living in the tunnels that got hit.
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