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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Sound Off on Fare Hikes Tonight
If you’ve got any opinion on the MTA raising fares while downsizing service, and I’ll bet you do, make your viewpoints heard at the first of eight MTA public hearings tonight. It’s on for 6 p.m. at the New York … Continue reading
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Hail the Hardy ‘FRUT MEM’
It’s just too damn cold to ride the bike to the train today, is precisely what I was thinking as I rode the bike to the train today, wind biting through my knock-off slacks from Marshall’s and the gray mittens The Missus … Continue reading
Posted in 6 train, Bike to Work, Metro North
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How the Slumdog Millionaires Get to Work
Train commuters in Mumbai would hardly blink at the thought of a 4 1/2 hour trip from Grand Central to Westport. So deplorable is the rail system there that, as we noted in these pages in April 2007 (“perhaps the … Continue reading
DC Metro Opens 4 AM For Obamarama
The staid Washington Metro railroad, where the trains are carpeted, no one but no one brings food, the seats have extra cushion to them, and everyone’s off the rails by midnight (including the rare roach), will start running an hour earlier … Continue reading
Happy Birthday 2 Us!
A paper cup of champagne and hazelnut coffee never tasted so sweet. Why the early a.m. potable? Trainjotting turns 2 today! Yes, it was exactly 730 days ago that we gingerly stepped into the blogosphere and posted a few thousand … Continue reading
Posted in Metro North, Mileposts
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JerseyJim: Keep Your Damn ‘Beer Money’
I’m so bummed. Every weeknight I blindly march to Penn Station, tunes blaring through my iPod, and hit the stairmaster to NJ Transit. I keep my eyes open as I slalom north through the crowds, but I have yet … Continue reading
Pants Optional on Subway
Some 900 New York subway riders braved snow and freezing temps to take part in a No Pants! Subway Ride from Foley Square to Union Square. No Pants! went on in 10 cities around the world, with some 2,000 people … Continue reading
Metro-North Worker Killed On Job
The railroad lost one of its own last night, as Metro-North signal maintainer Kevin Kenneth McGrath was killed by an oncoming train outside of Rye. The accident happened around 7 p.m. Reports the Journal News: Sean McCloskey, 44, a Metro-North … Continue reading
The Worst Round Trip You’ll Ever Hope to Have
From our Westport correspondent Saugatucker: This morning I was stuck in the Bronx for an hour because of the tunnel fire. A nice, leisurely sunny trip. Tonight after work, I got on the 7:05 at Grand Central to go home … Continue reading
Posted in New Haven Line, New Rochelle, Saugatucker
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The Trainjotting Reader: NORTH RIVER
Today’s excerpt comes from career newsman Pete Hamill, he of the whiskey-soaked memoir A Drinking Life. Hamill’s good, not great, novel North River (I’m halfway done) is set in Depression-era New York, a down-and-out Gotham that’s not unlike the city … Continue reading
Posted in Little G, Pete Hamill, Trainjotting Reader
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