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Weeee... So tired of all the darkness in our lives, With no more angry words to say can come alive, Get into a car and drive... To the other side! -
Wally can we please stay on topic. There's a proposal topic for these kind of discussions. Keep it there please. Thank you for understanding.
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news Staten Island's transportation crisis isn't going away
Harry posted a topic in New York City Bus
Stalling current Island needs is the huge funding crisis at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state agency that runs the New York City subway and bus system, among other operations. It's a costly roadblock that won't budge soon. There is a $15-billion shortfall in the MTA's proposed five-year, $32-billion capital budget, which covers maintenance, improvements and expansion of the regional network. "We have a very large hole in our existing capital program," stressed Peter Cafiero, chief of operations planning at the MTA's New York City Transit division. He was responding at a City Council hearing to a question by Councilwoman Debi Rose, D-North Shore, about the potential to ease traffic congestion by creating a bus rapid transit (BRT) route here. Read more: Source
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Temperatures hovered just above zero Monday as an extreme cold front paralyzed the city and may have led to the death of a man found on the Coney Island boardwalk. The arctic temps, which approached but did not eclipse a record low for the city in the overnight hours, likely contributed to the man’s demise, police sources said. Bai-Ping Wen, 77, was found face up on the Coney Island boardwalk near its famous carousel about 7 a.m., when the mercury topped off around the 5-degree mark, the sources said. Family members confirmed Wen’s identity and told the Daily News he suffered from diabetes. Wen lived in Coney Island for 15 years, the family said. Read more: Source
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He’s driven a bus driver five days a week, for at least eight hours a day, for approximately 30 years. According to union officials, de Jesus had a good record, despite having to navigate some of the busiest streets and most densely populated neighborhoods in the country. Then on Friday, de Jesus had an accident. After driving some 450,000 miles during his career, he hit a pedestrian. Not on purpose. Not because he was texting or speeding or drinking. He was making a left turn and accidentally struck and injured a 15-year-old girl. He didn’t see her walking across the street, he told police. He looked but didn’t see the girl while turning the 40-foot-long behemoth. Read more: Source
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If bedbugs boarded a bus in Brooklyn on Monday morning, it appears they also exited. A bus was taken out of service after a rider spotted what were believed to be bedbugs crawling on another passenger who was boarding the B44, which runs between Sheepshead Bay and Williamsburg, according to an MTA spokesman. “Customers all ran off the bus,” a transit source said. No insects were found on board, however, said Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman Kevin Ortiz. The bus was taken out of service so it could be “treated” by the MTA’s pest control contractor. Ortiz couldn’t say where along the route the bus was taken out of service. Read more: Source
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Random Thoughts Thread - Nassau Inter-County Express (NICE)
Harry replied to User's topic in Nassau Inter-County Express
I would like to take user Real Transit seriously but since every single post this user has made have been behind multiple proxies. Now who the hell would do that? Since you have to hide I really don't give a shit what you have to say. Start your own community and run it 7+ years successfully and then come and talk to me. But I doubt that will ever happen so I'm going to ban user Real Transit and all the proxy addresses associated with it so me and the rest of the community never have to read any garbage from that fake account again. Carry on with the discussion guys. -
Official The Mobile/Smartphone Thread
Harry replied to Harry's topic in Technology, Photography & Video
I think the size is just right. I am over six feet tall and it feels comfortable in my hands. I do think that it shouldn't get any larger than it is. -
Official The Mobile/Smartphone Thread
Harry replied to Harry's topic in Technology, Photography & Video
I've been using the Galaxy Note 3 for a little over a month now and I got to say that this is the best phone that I ever had to pleasure to use. I've never been so happy with a smartphone before and I've had many. Anyone else on here using a GN3? What do you think about it? -
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Massimo Vignelli 1972 NYCTA New York Subway Guide No sooner had the Metropolitan Transportation Authority introduced a new map of the New York subway system on Aug. 7, 1972, than complaints flooded in. Many stations seemed to be in the wrong places. The water surrounding the city was colored beige, not blue. As for Central Park, it appeared to be almost square, rather than an elongated rectangle, three times bigger than the map suggested, and was depicted in a dreary shade of gray. The map was, indeed, riddled with anomalies, but that was the point. Its designer, Massimo Vignelli, had sacrificed geographical accuracy for clarity by reinterpreting New York’s tangled labyrinth of subway lines as a neat diagram. Each station was shown as a dot and linked to its neighbors by color-coded routes running at 45- or 90-degree angles. Mr. Vignelli had used his design skills to tidy up reality. Design buffs have always loved his map for its rigor and ingenuity. When the future graphic designer Michael Bierut made his first trip to New York in 1976, he took one home to Ohio as a souvenir. But many New Yorkers were outraged by what they saw as the misrepresentation of their city, while tourists struggled to relate Mr. Vignelli’s design to what they found above ground. In 1979, the M.T.A. bowed to public pressure by replacing his diagrammatic map with a geographical one. Read more: New York Times -
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1989 Theaters in New York City Subway Map - http://www.nyctransitforums.com/forums/files/file/112-1989-theaters-in-new-york-city-subway-and-bus-guide/
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1989 Theaters in New York City Subway and Bus Guide Subway and Bus Guide to all Broadway and Off-Broadway Theaters of New York City. Featuring a Theater District inset map illustrating all subway and bus routes. -
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and East Rivers, connecting the railroad to New York and New England, knitting together the entire eastern half of the United States. The tunnels terminated in what was one of the greatest architectural achievements of its time, Pennsylvania Station. Penn Station covered nearly eight acres, extended two city blocks, and housed one of the largest public spaces in the world. But just 53 years after the station’s opening, the monumental building that was supposed to last forever, to herald and represent the American Empire, was slated to be destroyed. On PBS Channel 13, Tuesday February 18, 2014.
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1986 New York City Transit Authority Manhattan Bus Map -
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1988 New York City Transit Authority Subway Map -
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A Brief History of the Lackawanna Electrics 1931-1934 -
I agree. These are my favorite design of them all. -
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1965 Erie Lackawanna Time Table -
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2002 Guide to Weekend Travel during Construction in Lower Manhattan
