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QM22 Bus “Family” Breaking Up

Posted on May 28, 2010 by admin

Since buses have emerged as a theme on Trainjotting this week, we ease a day closer to the long weekend with a story from the NY Times’ Metropolitan section on the dmise of the QM22 bus, which goes from Jackson … Continue reading →

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JerseyJim Enjoys Rare Peace of Mind

Posted on May 27, 2010 by admin

A quiet ride into the city on NJT this morning, as the buzz and chill of the train’s air conditioner was a welcome switch in the commutersphere.   Most days, our 7:10 a.m. Midtown Direct is quite low volume. As I … Continue reading →

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Dylan* to Play at Pleasantville Fest

Posted on May 27, 2010 by admin

The Pleasantville Music Fest has signed up the biggest musical act in its six years of existence, booking Jakob Dylan–no, not that other Dylan–for this year’s event on July 10. (The Missus’ first reaction: I’m sitting in the front row. … Continue reading →

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MTA Workers: How Not to Get Spat Upon

Posted on May 26, 2010 by admin

As the LIRR/disability matter and the bus driver “spat upon” case have suggested, there are some transit workers who get paid to recover from injuries that perhaps are not all that injurious. (For what it’s worth, NY Times-man Jim Dwyer … Continue reading →

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Miffed At Your Bus Driver? Say It, Don’t Spray It

Posted on May 25, 2010 by admin

We’ve seen irate passengers menace drivers with metal hook appendages–quite recently, in fact–but we’ve (thankfully) never seen one spit on a driver. Yet it happens–quite a bit, in fact. The NY Times says there were 51 reported “spat upon” incidents, … Continue reading →

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Taking the Train From “Upstate”

Posted on May 25, 2010 by admin

Bike racks: Pleasantville 1, Hawthorne 0 I shook up my commuting routine a bit today, accompanying Little G up the road a bit to school in Priusville, where I was the guest reader and read G and his classmates a … Continue reading →

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Does This Bus Stop at 28th Street?*

Posted on May 21, 2010 by admin

All sorts of weirdness on the M1 bus this week. I hopped on at 40th and Park Ave South yesterday, and didn’t realize until we’d pulled out at 34th Street that the next stop was 23rd–five blocks south of where … Continue reading →

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An Open Letter To:

Posted on May 20, 2010 by admin

Wing Man. I’ve written about you before. And before that. Typically, you board the train at Grand Central in your gym clothes, dinner from Zaro’s in hand. Typically, it is buffalo wings. Sauce-bathed, messy-ass wings with get-all-over-everything blue cheese. You … Continue reading →

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Jumping Onto Subway Tracks is Never a Good Idea

Posted on May 19, 2010 by admin

The NY Times’ City Room blog has a fun item about just what it would take to get otherwise normal New Yorkers (uh, oxymoron, perhaps?) to jump down into the subway tracks. Of course, a man died last weekend doing … Continue reading →

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The Pipes, the Pipes are Calling…

Posted on May 19, 2010 by admin

I was climbing the subterranean Grand Central ramp that stretches from Oyster Bar to up by the 6 train entrance. (Uh, ever wonder why we have to go from underground to ground level just to go back to underground level?). … Continue reading →

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