Saturday, July 19, 2008
An MTA commute from hell
On Thursday, I left work at 6:15 and should have missed the worst of the rush hour. But while I was waiting, 3 R trains came and 1 W. When the N finally came, it was quite crowded. Somehow, it contrived to find congestion ahead. I had my music on but know that whenever one of the new trains stops, there’s an automated message ‘informing’ passengers of congestion ahead, and although I didn’t hear it, I could tell that it had played several too many times by the looks on people’s faces.
Once off the Manhattan Bridge, when we merged with D trains on the track, the stop start became ridiculous. I watched two R trains pass us by. Between Pacific and 36th Street, the R makes 4 stops that the unfortunately labelled ‘express’ train misses, but still they were just too fast for us.
At 36th Street, I could take no more and switched to the waiting R train. This was probably the third of those I initially ignored. So it really did have congestion ahead. I don’t think we ever went more than 50 yards between stops and each time, the conductor apologised and gave us the standard spiel. The last one and a half stops must have taken 20 minutes and the announcements turned frustration into annoyance.
As I finally got off the train, I asked the conductor why he had to make the same announcement every single time. He responded that it was his job. This begs a question in my mind: Are the majority of conductors who would not feel compelled to make this announcement every minute not doing their jobs? And is it the job of conductors to annoy the hell out of passengers? I could email this question to the MTA, but I know I would get a form response that will have little to do with my question, with the final result being that I would just be more irritated than I already am!
Incidentally, the journey into work had taken me 50 minutes. The reverse trip took 85.
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Once off the Manhattan Bridge, when we merged with D trains on the track, the stop start became ridiculous. I watched two R trains pass us by. Between Pacific and 36th Street, the R makes 4 stops that the unfortunately labelled ‘express’ train misses, but still they were just too fast for us.
At 36th Street, I could take no more and switched to the waiting R train. This was probably the third of those I initially ignored. So it really did have congestion ahead. I don’t think we ever went more than 50 yards between stops and each time, the conductor apologised and gave us the standard spiel. The last one and a half stops must have taken 20 minutes and the announcements turned frustration into annoyance.
As I finally got off the train, I asked the conductor why he had to make the same announcement every single time. He responded that it was his job. This begs a question in my mind: Are the majority of conductors who would not feel compelled to make this announcement every minute not doing their jobs? And is it the job of conductors to annoy the hell out of passengers? I could email this question to the MTA, but I know I would get a form response that will have little to do with my question, with the final result being that I would just be more irritated than I already am!
Incidentally, the journey into work had taken me 50 minutes. The reverse trip took 85.
