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caffeine314 t1_jb398w0 wrote
Reply to comment by JordanRulz in If you’re ever annoyed by service changes because of “Track Repair”, never forget the hard work behind them that keeps our subway alive. by beechcraft10
Granted, this was the 90s. I'd take MUNI from SFSU to my house in Sunset. Usually clean, pretty reliable. Pretty far from the San Francisco nonsense of downtown.
caffeine314 t1_jb391ad wrote
Reply to comment by iv2892 in If you’re ever annoyed by service changes because of “Track Repair”, never forget the hard work behind them that keeps our subway alive. by beechcraft10
B and Q line. I'd say once or twice a week there are delays during the evening rush hour. Signal problems, track fires, police activity. About once every few months I need to take a cab home. When that happens, it's a signal problem on multiple lines and I guess the whole system is gummed up for a few hours.
caffeine314 t1_jb0iwly wrote
Reply to If you’re ever annoyed by service changes because of “Track Repair”, never forget the hard work behind them that keeps our subway alive. by beechcraft10
Did my undergrad and graduate work in northern California. Somehow, MUNI and BART both did their track work between 9pm and 6am and tried very hard to get the lines all back to normal by morning rush hour.
But aside from that, I don't really see improvement during weekday service from track work. Still sucks.
Those of us who are in our 50s lived through really bad NYC crime when we were teens. But the trains were so freaking reliable. Fast. Frequent. Reliable. Yeah, they were all graffitied up. Yeah, they weren't safe. But you chose one of the conductor's car, and it was always OK. Coming home from a night partying was awesome. Even in the dead of night, you'd wait maybe 20 minutes.
These days I can wait 20 minutes during rush hour!
caffeine314 t1_ja1qpif wrote
Reply to comment by blakeley in NYC council votes to name street after antisemitic Nation of Islam leader by drpvn
I want the Tappan Zee Bridge back.
caffeine314 t1_ja1qkbf wrote
Why are we asking people in the south to give up Robert E Lee and Jefferson Davis? How is this any better? Weren't they "white leaders who are not pleasing to black people"?
Why can't people just be boring and moderate? By the end of Trump's Presidency I didn't even care what he did. I was just so exhausted from reading about the crazy shit every day.
caffeine314 t1_j6yhhr5 wrote
Reply to comment by Mcfinley in George Santos' campaign spent more than $26,000 at an Italian restaurant in Queens. That's enough to buy 1,131 orders of the rigatoni bolognese. by MrKleen10
Italian slang for cappicola, a spiced ham. I'm not a huge fan of it myself, but it has a a devoted fan base.
caffeine314 t1_isu3r0d wrote
I partake as much as the next guy, but I draw the line when I'm walking with my four year old through clouds of the stuff outside.
caffeine314 t1_jb3a6bh wrote
Reply to comment by donttouchthirdrail in If you’re ever annoyed by service changes because of “Track Repair”, never forget the hard work behind them that keeps our subway alive. by beechcraft10
Don't know what to tell you. Your mom and I are probably similar age. I graduated Edward R Murrow in 1987. Used to go to the village a lot. 8th street playhouse once a week for midnight showing of Rock Horror - that would be the 1 train to Christopher Street. I'd hang out at CBGBs a lot. That was the 6 to Bleecker. Home was 2/3 to Eastern Parkway. And then Murrow was D,M, and Qb.
I was always on the trains, but these were pretty much my go-to places. There were always shitty nights, of course, but by and large, the trains were a WHOLE lot more reliable back then.