"Deader'n hell, Boss, but he won't let go!"
Posted on 05/18/2019 12:27:12 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
This made for a real crappy commute.
A nasty clogged-up toilet and nature calling for a pair of MTA workers during Friday’s morning rush-hour snarled subway service on five different lines, according to the transit agency and a report.
The double bathroom break caused temporary service changes on the A, C and E lines and prompted delays on those lines, as well as hold-ups on the F and M lines, the MTA said.
“So there was a movement during a no movement period.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
They spent everything on massive overtime, now they need a plumber...
and his fate is still unlearned
and his fate is still unlearned...
These are the times that try men’s souls
In the course of our nation’s history the people of Boston have rallied bravely whenever the rights of men have been threatened
Today a new crisis has arisen
The Metropolitan Transit Authority, better known as the M.T.A.
Is attempting to levy a burdensome tax on the population in the form of a subway fare increase
Citizens, hear me out, this could happen to you!
Well, let me tell you of the story of a man named Charlie
On a tragic and fateful day
He put ten cents in his pocket, kissed his wife and family
Went to ride on the MTA
Well, did he ever return?
No he never returned and his fate is still unlearned (what a pity)
He may ride forever ‘neath the streets of Boston
He’s the man who never returned
"Deader'n hell, Boss, but he won't let go!"
Every time I see the words, MTA, I remember that old great Kingston Trio song.
“Fight the fare increase,
VOTE FOR GEORGE O’RIELY,
Get poor Charlie off the MTA!”
AOC’s office most affected?
:)
My cynical side is thinking these bathroom emergencies were not happenstance but part of a plot to get the 3-day broken toilet fixed. LOL
” So there was movement during a no movement period.”
Here’s the problem: the MTA subway signalling system is still mostly manual, and as such is highly reliant on signal operators. It’s only now that automatic, centralized signaling is finally being installed, though at a relatively slow pace.
“It’s like a Tidy Bowl Man, a dirty brown, Tidy Bowl Man”, he’d say.
the MTA subway signaling system has a Wiki page!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signaling_of_the_New_York_City_Subway
Apparently, it works? Sounds like Fred Flintstone stuff?
40 - 50-year implementation? A Soviet plan?
The New York City Subway system has, for the most part, used block signaling since its 1904 opening...
... that some parts of the New York City Subway’s signaling system have not been replaced in 80 years, causing over 11,000 train delays in the span of two months?”
In March 2018, New York City Transit Authority president Andy Byford said that he had created a new plan for resignaling the subway with CBTC, which would only take 10 to 15 years, compared to the previous estimate of 40 years. However, this would be very expensive, as it would cost $8 to $15 billion
it was reported that full implementation of CBTC systemwide might take 40 to 50 years. Following the subway system’s state of emergency that year, MTA Chairman Joe Lhota described the timeline of CBTC installation as “simply too long,”
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