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Category Archives: Bus
JerseyJim Gets Stuck on (Un)Quiet Car With Several Thousand of His Closest Friends
Freight Train Running Through the Middle of My Head With the cold weather settling in, I’m getting choosy about the right place to stand on the platform in the morning. Alignment with the train doors is crucial. Lots of seats … Continue reading
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The Musician on the Bus Goes Strum, Strum, Strum
Fun item in today’s NY Times Metropolitan Diary that shows NY bus drivers aren’t always gruff and soulless. DEAR DIARY: A visitor in the city with a guitar and suitcase, I boarded the M60 bus at 125th Street. “How much … Continue reading
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Bee-Line Bus-ted
The 2005 Bee-line bus route at Hawthorne station this morning. Bus route maps are like wine–better with age, right? 2005 was a good year for both, right? I mean, nothing’s changed on the bus line in the last six years. … Continue reading
Former Teen Subway Thief Pilfers Bus
Nefarious Darius Darius McCollum was arrested again. Of course, the name does not mean a thing to do. Why would it? But you’re well familiar with McCollum’s crimes, starting with the one that put him on the (subway) map. Yes, … Continue reading
MTA Resorts to Hand-Written Signs
As we’ve noted in these cyber-pages, there’s been some confusion about the new bus schedules following the MTA’s massive cost cutting in recent months–especially regarding the M-1 along Park Avenue South. By the looks of this sign on the M-1 … Continue reading
QM22 Bus “Family” Breaking Up
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
Miffed At Your Bus Driver? Say It, Don’t Spray It
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
Does This Bus Stop at 28th Street?*
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
Possible Demise of Princeton’s ‘Dinky’
The tiny “Dinky” train that links Princeton University and Princeton Junction may be replaced by a bus line, reports the NY Times. The Dinky, a one-car train that makes the four-minute trip several times a day, has been in existence … Continue reading
An Open Letter To:
The M1 bus. I take you, M1 bus, every once in a while, when the mankind morass assembled at the 4-5-6 train escalators in Grand Central seems too foreboding, or these tired legs just don’t have the requisite spring to … Continue reading
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