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"THE JOY OF '6': Lex line is top-rated subway."
The New York Post ^ | July 21, 2004 | Clemente Lisi

Posted on 07/24/2004 9:39:34 AM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid

Edited on 07/24/2004 10:05:12 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

I don't know how many of you read this story in "The Post", or heard about on the local news, but The Straphangers Campaign has just released its annual "State of the Subways" report.

According to this article, the report "ranks each line based on what a $2 ride is really worth...based on Transit Authority data from the last six months of 2003."

Not surprisingly, the two trains that I use most frequently while doing interborough or intraborough commuting, the R and N train, are assigned the lowest ranking in this survey. A ride on each train is worth ninety and eighty cents, respectively.

Article here


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey; US: New York
KEYWORDS: arrives; busfare; dirty; for; godot; mta; never; nyc; nypirg; on; slow; straphanger; time; trains; waiting
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

I HATE the local busses (slow as HELL). The Express bus to/from Bay Ridge was great, btw, particularly when there was no express N service.


61 posted on 07/24/2004 12:06:06 PM PDT by Clemenza
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To: Clemenza
I agree.

I'm still adjusting to the fact that the B line is again operative and running at full capacity.

It's going to take awhile to assimilate the W, B and Q/ Q (diamond) reversions .

62 posted on 07/24/2004 12:15:11 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" (Philip K. Dick.)
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To: The Scourge of Yazid
Mass transit? What's that?

The only methods here are car, boat, motorcycle, foot, and in the winter time - snowmobile

63 posted on 07/24/2004 12:38:25 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("If you want a little peace, sometimes you gotta fight" - Sammy Hagar)
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To: Dan from Michigan

BTW - CATA(lansing) doesn't count. Smart doesn't from what I've heard about them. Not sure about Ann Arbor or Grand Rapids.


64 posted on 07/24/2004 12:39:40 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("If you want a little peace, sometimes you gotta fight" - Sammy Hagar)
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To: jocon307

The lexington avenue is great but so is the 7th avenue line. Now, though, due to the bomb being set off in the Times Square stop (supposedly by a crazy cop but who knows), I'm reluctant to use it at all.


65 posted on 07/24/2004 12:49:42 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: quidnunc

It was a Girl Scout Camp, I was just a kid!!!!


66 posted on 07/24/2004 1:11:55 PM PDT by clyde260 (Public Enemy #1: Network News!)
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To: The Scourge of Yazid
but then again, I'm just a bastard like that. What can you do?

,,, smile and admire you for your honesty and enduring, cutting edge sense of fun and cyber adventure!

Stay well.

67 posted on 07/24/2004 2:14:11 PM PDT by shaggy eel
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

I have very little experience on this subject. I stay out of tunnels because the Gypsy Woman told my momma that I would be hit by an asteroid in a tunnel.

I wish I could be more help but it's for my health.


68 posted on 07/24/2004 2:48:43 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (They are where you least expect. Look around and you'll see them too.)
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To: Dan from Michigan; kerrysucks; IPWGOP; MeekOneGOP
Fortunately, John Kerry has managed to misuse all of those modes of transport.

Plus, you can't forget skis.

Kerry really sucks at skiing also.

69 posted on 07/24/2004 6:47:47 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" (Philip K. Dick.)
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To: shaggy eel; Conspiracy Guy; Arse; Happygal
Thanks for the compliment.

I'll try to keep being a royal pain in the ass.

Far as I can tell, there's not much in the way of competition in that department.

-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)

70 posted on 07/24/2004 6:50:54 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" (Philip K. Dick.)
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To: glock rocks
Bump from a FReeper who at age 12 took the D train to Yankee Stadium. The pre-renovation Yankee Stadium. For a Giants/Eagles game.

ff

71 posted on 07/24/2004 7:02:30 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Cacique
The problem with New York city is that in the outer boroughs mass transit sucks. The subways all head towards Manhattan and there are no cross borough lines to connect the lines. The result is that if you don't have a car in the outer boroughs, getting around is a pain.

Doesn't the G run directly from downtown Brooklyn to Jackson Heights in Queens?

ff

72 posted on 07/24/2004 7:11:37 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: The Scourge of Yazid
Scourge, are there any kegs here? Any pictures of Anna K? How about Ann Coulter?.............no...... I'm outa here
73 posted on 07/24/2004 7:26:28 PM PDT by scott0347 (Sir Scott. Knight Commander of the 0347th Lancer Brigade)
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To: scott0347; RightWingAtheist; cyborg; Slings and Arrows; backhoe
Sorry, can't help you there.

C'mon people, we need pictures!

STAT!

74 posted on 07/24/2004 7:31:37 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" (Philip K. Dick.)
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To: Yehuda; NYC GOP Chick; Fedora; NYCVirago; mandingo republican; arasina
I don't mind the actual Union Sq. station that much, even though there are way too many freaks, derelicts, obnoxious hippies and assorted political wackjobs that congregate around the entrances.

In fact, the new trains they have now-where you can actually hear the conductor's voice-are fantastic.

If you want to be sickened, get off at the Delancey St. station, which seems to have been intentionally bathed in urine and sputum by the MTA.

Unsettling would be the mildest of adjectives that could be used to describe it.

76 posted on 07/24/2004 8:55:35 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("I don't want to eat breakfast on a table that's held your father's ass! That's ass-breakfast!)
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To: The Scourge of Yazid
Only for you, Scourge.
77 posted on 07/24/2004 9:48:12 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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78 posted on 07/25/2004 4:16:46 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Darksheare
Last time I rode a subway, there was this annoying and painful high pitched dog-whistle sounding screech during the entire ride.

Curiously, only humans could hear it.

79 posted on 07/25/2004 5:40:01 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
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To: Lazamataz

LOL!


80 posted on 07/25/2004 5:45:07 AM PDT by Darksheare (Road Killed Beeber Association, paving the world, one troll at a time...)
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