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Etson, now you’re a Toronto PLUSA.
UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!!
A rep on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board says if the plan did roll out to all the trains, “there would have been civil disobedience. I think people would have brought bolt cutters and unlocked the seats.” However, similar subway cars have been introduced in Boston and allegedly there have been no complaints or reports of civil disobedience… and they’re way more uncivilized than us!”
I bet this dumbass has never even been to Boston.
oh yeah….thl, hobo rocks, and Adam.
So which bklyn nabe has the most PLUSAs?
I was a Manhattan PLUSA for a while.
Denton;
THe thing to do in my neighborhood was to hop on the back of the bus (basically standing on the bumper). When I was about 12, one of the well-known guys in the area was killed in doing so. The bus hit a pothole, throwing him off. He hit his head on the street and was subsequently hit by an oncoming car.
whoa denton was like all hardcore and shi+ hahaha.
omg. was this really a plan!? seatless subways? hells no!!!
“Last week we spotted the “seatless subway”—furnished with seats that easily flip-up during busy rush hour commutes to create room for more straphangers. You know, so we can work our way towards being more like Japan. At the time, Deputy Director of Public Affairs, Deirdre Parker, told us that they were brought in for a test, but the “seats are locked in the down position and will remain that way. There is no plan at this point to run those cars in the up position.” So there we have it, human cattle cars are not in our future.
In case you had any doubt, the Daily News now confirms that the seats will remain in a down position; a transit official told them, “People are already feeling they’re paying more for less. I don’t know that a train like that, even though the idea was to increase capacity, was something that the public would have embraced. We’re not going down that road.”
A rep on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board says if the plan did roll out to all the trains, “there would have been civil disobedience. I think people would have brought bolt cutters and unlocked the seats.” However, similar subway cars have been introduced in Boston and allegedly there have been no complaints or reports of civil disobedience… and they’re way more uncivilized than us!”
*rob*
Oh, then HOBOKEN ROCKS makes 3 NJ PLUSAs
thl and… that hoboken guy
*rob*
“omg cuz youre SO hardcore and real. :-/ hahaha. actually when did it become illegal to stand between train cars?”
probably when G10’s old boss fell and sued the city for a million bucks!
“not sure what you mean by riding the back of a train tho!”
I mean riding _outside_ of the train in the back car. There used to be handles outside before the trains got all streamlined. Also accordion gates instead of the chains they have now. You could go to the end of a train, grab the handles, swing yourself onto the platform and ride on the outside of the train. It was also an easy way to catch a ride if you just missed the train.
Two kids was very comfortable, four was manageable. Sometimes we’d get up to six kids, thinking back, I agree that was a bit dangerous.
We had a whole group of kids that did this in JHS and HS, we called ourselves the ‘trainhoppers’. To join, of course you had to have the skills, but initiation was to ride the #1 (on the outside, of course) out of the 242nd Street station (which is always swarming with MTA.) All the rest of us would be on the platform screaming ‘look at that kid on the back of the train’. You had to make it to 231st Street without getting arrested.
The #1 line was a fave with us uptown cuz it’s outside too, so you could get the rush of being in the air.