Nothing but a G thang
I've only had a few experiences with the New York subway's G train - most of the cool stuff along its route has only opened up in the seven years since I moved out of the city - but all three times were awful. These trips have involved waiting for what seemed like forever in Brooklyn for a shortened and crowded train at an ungodly hour of the night and sitting in an empty car for 15 minutes in Long Island City, waiting for it to get moving again. You'd think that a crosstown train that avoided Manhattan completely would be fast, empty and awesome. It isn't, and people are complaining:
"Just put lights on the tracks and we can walk - it'll be faster," said Jonathan Lovett, 46, a letter carrier whose house is a few steps from the Clinton-Washington station in Brooklyn. His advice to the G-line neophyte: "Bring an extra battery for your MP3 player."
But the line does provide a vital, if erratic, link between the city's two most populous boroughs, and G detractors may be surprised to know that weekday ridership has risen 10 percent since 2000. Much of that has resulted from residential growth in neighborhoods like Long Island City, Queens, and Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Fort Greene, in Brooklyn.
How are all the Upper East Side prep school kids going to get to Northsix without clogging up Union Square?
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rj3 | 11:04 AM |
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Speaking of NY's subway, according to the news, the bidders on making cellphones work underground are complaining because the Authority doesn't want phones to work in the tunnels.
Security risk -- cell phones can be used for detonation.
As reported many places (and ignored by people like you) the cellphones used in the Madrid bombings were hooked up to the alarm function, which has nothing to do with being called externally.
There are lots of things that can be used for detonation. Mobiles are just one of many, and blocking them doesn't buy us anything at all except an inability to help the people trapped in the tunnel.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/07/turning_cell_ph.html
