Subway Service on Weekends Is F@#%ed
We long ago gave up trying to take the subway on the weekends. Life’s too short, so it’s the bicycle or car for us. This view was confirmed last weekend when it took an out-of-town friend an hour and a half on Saturday afternoon to get from Midtown to Clinton Hill. So it was no…
We long ago gave up trying to take the subway on the weekends. Life’s too short, so it’s the bicycle or car for us. This view was confirmed last weekend when it took an out-of-town friend an hour and a half on Saturday afternoon to get from Midtown to Clinton Hill. So it was no surprise to read this lede in The Post this morning: “Here’s a subway service notice: Use your car on the weekends!” A group called the Transit Riders Council has studied subway service over the past two weekends. The bottom line: “It’s bedlam,” said Andrew Albert, a member of the council as well as the MTA board.
Expect subway service disaster this weekend [NY Post]
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Chicken — you get a fresh car every time you call a car service, you should be able to get a fresh car of your own at least once a year.
DIBS, that $10k would be a capital cost – unless you’re throwing it away and buying another one every year.
Yes, another reason I don’t have one here. The irony of it is that I most likely can park anytime on the block in front of my house but wherever I drove to I couldn’t find parking.
Plus, whenever I go somewhere there’s likely to be alcohol consumed so that’s too big a big risk.
Oh – yeah. Parking. If NorthSlopeRenter, you still live in the North Slope — that’s something to think about. Perhaps rent a car for a week (not kidding) and try it out.
I used to live on St. John’s and Underhill, not far from the ol’ North Slope. Parking was a horrible thing. Very stressful. That alone almost got me to sell my car several times.
he (she?) has great posture.
On cars…the wife and I decided to get a used VW Bug (the new ones, not from the 60’s!) after doing an analsysis. The key part for us wasn’t the short distance stuff but the long distance pieces. We go upstate a lot and have relatives way out Long Island. For those we’d normally had to rent a car. It used to be that Zip Car could take up this slack but it’s gone up significantly in cost in the past 1 1/2 years.
For us we found the car to be cheaper in the long haul…so long as you buy a used one in good shape, and you can find a place to park it. If you’re stuck in street parking forget it, the added stress isn’t worth it.
Of course we are now much more mobile so we get the added benefit of being able to shop and explore much more widely than we used to. We used to be slaves to where the choo-choo goes, now we can wander at will 🙂
Hopefully faux hipster is waiting for the G Train, in which case he’ll have plenty of time to consider the foolishness of this act.
Maybe having a car in the city is like the own versus rent discussion. “Not everyone wants to rent” is analagous to “not everyone wants to take a car service everywhere or deal with the hassle of renting or Zipcar”.
If we did the math we would all be carless renters.