Outrage on the Web over NY Post photo capturing subway death

[Ed Anger]

I'm taking Tim's American card away from him. He's turned into a foriegner.

[garbon]

Seoul and Tokyo are still rocking at that time as well.

And it fucking sucks when the subway shuts down.

Yeah, New York has spoiled me on that.

[Tonitrus]

As it is usually the deciding factor in these cases... I am still trying to figure which of the systems must have better unions.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I imagine that if they need to close a track for necessary maintenance, they simply do so, and post a pubic announcement.

They do that for 24-hour freeways all the time.

Well no pubic announcement...

What they tried out recently and have seemed to like is being called Fastrack.  Basically they will shutdown several stations on a particular line (in example in link they speak about 1-2-3), in the evening for a series of days.  Posted well in advance so that everyone can plan accordingly / signs outside affected stations (and inside unaffected ones) relating alternate ways of getting around.

The benefit of this approach is that nearly all lines will still be operational at any given time but allows them concentrated chunks of time to do maintenance on a particular line.

http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/fastrack.htm

I don't want a pubic announcement from some bureaucrat.

[garbon]

I wouldn't mind if it was from Martin O'Malley.

[Caliga]

Yea I'm surprised that any major city would have their public transit systems shut down for part of the day.

They shut down in Boston every night, too.

[garbon]

Yea I'm surprised that any major city would have their public transit systems shut down for part of the day.

They shut down in Boston every night, too.

Isn't that typical of most cities?

[CountDeMoney]

Always surprised me that Boston's closed up, considering how big the city is.  You'd think it'd be 24 hours, like New York's.

At least DC's stays open to 3am on the weekends.

[Admiral Yi]

Metro is open late on weekends but runs very intermittently.  Sitting in a station 20 minutes waiting for a train completely kills your buzz.