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• The N Sucks (for a month)

  Published: August 2, 2007, 9:32 pm

  Tags: Rider Strategy, Transit Failures

  Would anyone care to expand upon Todd’s gripe? Random gripe: WTF is up with the N? No downtown express service for a month?! Rush-hour too! Is The MTA on vacation or something? (Oh, and the 4/5 this morning was crazy busy) Bookmark SUBWAYblogger to:

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• Police to Fight Subway Perverts?

  Published: July 26, 2007, 10:29 am

  Tags: Crime, This Just In, Good Lookin, Rider Strategy, Live Blogging On The Subway

  me? More than half the riders of the subway have been sexually harassed in the subway? That seems a bit too extreme. Ok, so 98% have been harassed in general, but not sexually. Rush hour was noted as the most dangerous time to get sexed up. How is that? One woman reported that a man began to masturbate across right in front of

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• OMG!!!!! One of the most shocking subway videos ever

  Published: August 30, 2007, 9:42 am

  Tags: Video, This Just In, Outta The Way, Scary People, Rider Strategy

  travel time. Then, new riders can dive to get on the train. WOW…I’m gonna go watch it again. Bookmark SUBWAYblogger

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• High School Kids: They’re Back

  Published: September 5, 2007, 9:32 pm

  Tags: This Just In, Kids, Outta The Way, Rider Strategy

  I think the high school population in my neighborhood doubled this year. Today, there were waaaay more kids waiting for the train than last year. The girls really bother me. They move in little packs of 2 or 3, and will not separate no matter what. So instead of being able to navigate around just one of them at a time, you have to treat

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• MSNBC Claims JFK AirTrain is Free?

  Published: September 7, 2007, 12:01 am

  Tags: This Just In, Rider Strategy

  Hmmm. Maybe I’m missing something. Isn’t it $5.00 to ride AirTrain to JFK? That’s what I’ve always thought. However, this caption on a new MSNBC.com article says differently. Further down in the article, it then says the AirTrain costs $5.00…so which is it? Sounds like George Hobica, Aviation.com, didn’t

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• Can we all agree that Columbus Day is the most pointless holiday of the year?

  Published: October 8, 2007, 11:02 pm

  Tags: Outta The Way, Rider Strategy

  Honestly, it really is. It’s like a fake holiday. The damn kids have school off, but we don’t get the day off from work. Let’s look at a quick holiday breakdown: St. Patrick’s Day: An excuse to get wasted in the middle of the week. And who doesn’t love green beer? Valentine’s Day: This one’s for

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• “Relief” Over Lack of Subway Fare Hike?

  Published: November 22, 2007, 11:09 pm

  Tags: Rider Strategy, Transit Failures

  I’m I the only one confused over everyone’s “relief” due to the recent news that the $2.00 fare will not be going up? The mainstream media makes it out to be a reason for citywide celebration. What’s the big deal? The fact is that the other denominations of rides are likely going to go up. They [...]

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• Ringing in the New Year in Times Square

  Published: January 2, 2008, 7:17 pm

  Tags: Live Blogging On The Subway, Rider Strategy

  It wasn’t that bad. Seriously. It was actually pretty cool, but then again, I didn’t have the typical experience that most revelers have. I was actually working in Times Square. That night, more than ever, the value of the press pass became all the more apparent to me. I could walk around wherever I wanted [...]

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• Getting to Times Square on New Year’s Eve

  Published: December 31, 2007, 2:13 am

  Tags: Rider Strategy, This Just In, Tourists

  It’s time for the city to get rid of 2007 and move on to 2008 like only we can. It’s time for the shit-show known as New Year’s Eve in Times Square. Ask any New Yorker that has been around here for a few years or more. They’ll likely tell you the last place on earth [...]

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• Amtrak Strike Will Be a Subway Disaster

  Published: January 14, 2008, 9:30 am

  Tags: Rider Strategy, Tourists, Transit Failures

  Amtrak workers could go on strike as early as January 30th. As with all strikes, there’s a much broader impact than you first think. An Amtrak strike has affect on virtually all rail related travel. What most people don’t realize is Amtrak controls the signals coming in and out of Penn Station. This means all the [...]

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• Looming Snow Could be Subway’s First Test

  Published: January 13, 2008, 2:06 pm

  Tags: Rider Strategy, Transit Failures, Weekend

  Tonight/Tomorrow’s snow could be the subway system’s first test of 2008. Wet weather tends to cause massive cluster f*cks on most lines. All it takes is a hold up ad ONE point on a line, and the entire line suffers. So what do we hope to avoid? Snow in general isn’t an issue most of the time. [...]

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• Subway Schmutziness Down Year to Date

  Published: March 26, 2008, 10:30 am

  Tags: Rider Strategy, This Just In, Custodian Services, Dirt, Gene, Grime, L Train, Russianoff, Schmutz, Schmutziness, Straphangers Campaign, Subway, Trains, Trash

  The Straphangers Campaign released a report on the improvement of subway cleanliness. They say that the state of train dirt and has improved over the past few years. I guess, for the most part, that is true in my observation. They found that the L train and 7 train were the cleanest this year. [...]

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• Adios Pope Benedict!

  Published: April 20, 2008, 10:20 pm

  Tags: Rider Strategy, Closure, Delays, Frozen, Nyc, Pope, Pope Benedict, Travel Issues

  Now, our lives can get back to normal. The Pope’s visit to NYC has caused some all around travel issues. If you were planing to go anywhere on the East side this past week, you were probably out of luck at many times. No matter how you planned to travel, including by rail, there [...]

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• My New Favorite Spot to Ride

  Published: May 13, 2008, 12:37 am

  Tags: Rider Strategy, Conductor, Favorite Spot, Hairy Eyeball, Jolts, Old Ladies, Passenger Traffic, Relative Peace, Train Car, Trains

  So I have a new favorite spot to ride the train, but it is a tough spot to get. I like to stand right on the very end of the train by the door that leads from one train car to another. I find that you can get lean on the door a little and [...]

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• Fantastic Subway Timing Today

  Published: May 12, 2008, 12:13 am

  Tags: Rider Strategy, Subway, Time, Trains, Waiting

  I must say, I had excellent subway timing today. It has been a really, really long time since I got to the platform and walked right onto the train both times today. There was no waiting whatsoever for me today. I got to work early, and got home ahead of schedule. I’m always a little [...]

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