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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.

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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

Nope. I am into Ironic Sarcasm myself.


81 posted on 07/25/2004 9:07:21 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (They are where you least expect. Look around and you'll see them too.)
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To: The Scourge of Yazid
The one I like is the 1/9 trains from Midtown down to lower Manhattan. That line is nice because the trains run frequently throughout the day, and one can use the 2/3 trains for express service without having to wait a long time for a train.

I usually took a bus to the Port Authority Bus Terminal or a train to Penn Station, then I got on the 2/3 express train down to 14th street, and switched to the 1/9 local train down to South Ferry when I went to work-related meetings in a building down at Bowling Green a few years ago.

The Lexington Av. Lines 4, 5, and 6 are so crowded that I'd sure like to see the MTA build the Second Avenue subway.

82 posted on 07/25/2004 12:58:52 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul (The beauty of flip-flopping consists entirely in saying one thing and doing something else)
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

83 posted on 07/25/2004 1:04:36 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: Victoria Delsoul; NYC GOP Chick; Brooklyn; Cacique; Brooklynman; Clemenza
Brooklyn resident:

Manhattan? BOO! JEER! HISS!

Seriously, I guess building a 2nd Avenue subway line is a good idea for people who live in and around Manhattan, though I can understand-being from Kings County myself-the argument against diverting yet more funds for mass transit to a borough which already has many transportation alternatives that can be utilized by its residents.

I remember how fierce the battle got when that transportation bond issue was on the ballot a few years ago.

Even though Ken Fisher campaigned vigorously against the measure-and probably had more to do with its defeat than any other elected official-he still came in dead last in the borough president's race.

Go figure!

84 posted on 07/25/2004 2:33:09 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: MeekOneGOP; gopwinsin04; Darksheare; Lazamataz
EWWWWWW!

Rhonda, what's that weird guy doing with his pockets?(!)

Shouldn't his hands be holding onto the pole?

85 posted on 07/25/2004 2:58:47 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
Rut-roh! I thought it was a girl. :^O

86 posted on 07/25/2004 3:23:24 PM 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: The Scourge of Yazid
Isn't 6. Chance of getting a seat during rush hour. a Yogi Berra-ism? I mean, “No one goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.”
87 posted on 07/25/2004 11:01:56 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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To: JerseyHighlander; Victoria Delsoul; SJackson; Alamo-Girl; Hillarys Gate Cult; Cubs Fan; ...
Berra-ism #137:

Hillary Clinton? Isn't she dat Cubs fan who lives in Ark n'saw? I never saw dat ark. Why da heck is it in a saw anyways?

88 posted on 07/25/2004 11:18:46 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid (Why do people keep calling me a bastard?)
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