NYC subway hitting 100...

[Filan Fyretracker]

"The Subway" turns 100 (http://www.mta.info/mta/centennial.htm)

well the NYC subway. hard to imagine what the streets would be like without it.

http://www.mta.info/mta/images/cenlogo2.gif

[Ciarin]

boston had it first

[Gnomish]

I've heard boston's subway is very Filthy, from ALOT of people...

::throws confetti made from old MetroCards in the air:: HAPPY BIRTHDAY NYC Subways!!!!!!!!!!

[Ciarin]

it's not dirtier than most other subways....

[Coffee]

"Did he ever return? No he never returned, and his fate is still unknown. He may ride forever neath the streets of Boston..."

[Zorathenne]

Ahh Nu Yawk..
I'm a Long Island gal myself.. I'm here now visiting family and old school friends before heading back down to Georgia.. Maybe I'm nuts but I actually *missed* the cold hehee.

[Gnomish]

::shivers:: how can you miss the cold... ¬_¬ it's absolutely freezing here in Ohio, and i can only imagine how cold it is in NYC >_< ::shivers again::

[Catila Amano]

Heh, MetroCards? Last time I took the NYC subway, they still used tokens. I think I still have one somewhere.

[Rhiamon Fatesealer]

I've never even been on a subway. Cant build em in Houston, you'd hit water. We don't have basements either. We very badly need a good mass transit system though. We've got buses, but only in within Houston city limits for the most part, and the suburbs go out prolly 50 miles in each direction. Maybe more. And the buses only run during certain hours, etc. Its not a very practical alternative to a car. Pretty much, you only ride the bus if you don't have a car.

I'd like to ride a subway sometime, though. I think it'd be kinda neat.

[Coffee]

Rhiamon, having experienced the joys of parking on I10 with about two million other motorists during rush hour, I'll agree. Houstond does need a mass transit system.

Maby an underground ferry? **grins**

[Filan Fyretracker]

lol Catila, the MTA has discoed Tokens now, its all metrocards. its basicly a card with a set value that you slide at the entry and it lets you in and they have machines that you can use to refill them.

[Ciarin]

Aww, I miss ohio and it's snow.


There was some flurries here in Boston the other day. I completely missed it though. I was working in the basement of my building during that time.

I plan to return to Ohio next year. I hope to see my grandparents while I still can.

[Kaylen]

I'll gladly trade places with you, Gnomish. Just last winter I was in glorious Ohio, and it's wonderful, wonderful cold. Now I'm choking on heat in Houston.

Except that one night I woke up violently shaking because it was really freaking cold.

[Keisu_Reishiu]

I live in Calgary a city in western Canada. The transit system isn't too, too bad but not that great. But I'm 21 and I've been a loyal customer of the system for 5 1/2 years. How sad is that?
for more info
http://www.calgarytransit.com/

[Rhiamon Fatesealer]

You can get a chill here sometimes Kaylen. If you're naked, and you go outside, and stand in the shade at night, and the wind blows just right...

[Coffee]

S'posed to be getting into the 40's here in San Antonio tonight...

[stuman89]

in memphis one week it was about 28 on monday. 73 on tuesday. 78 on wednesday. 56 on thursday. back to 30 on friday. memphis' weather sucks. ill guarentee thats not y fred smith picked it

[MCW]

Wonder when Moscow will have their anviersity for their subway system.

[Ciarin]

9 degrees here.

[Zorathenne]

*grins at Gnomish*

Well.. I HAD missed the cold and stuff.. til I realized I have made it home just in time to catch the nor'easter heading up this way over the weekend. And I'm in Bay Shore. Right along the south shore of L.I.

Oh joy.. hehe

[Triv]

its 5 degrees Celcius in Toronto, and thats the way i like it - not your mumbo-jumbo crazy Ferinheight or w/e you call it

[offensivename]

Houston was actually considering buying about 70 Mi-8 helicopters in 96 as a mass transit system, since the russians were selling them at $75,000 a peice. The idea died in sub comittee, but it wasn't a good idea anyhow, Houstons air traffic would be awful had it went through

[Catila Amano]

lol Catila, the MTA has discoed Tokens now, its all metrocards. its basicly a card with a set value that you slide at the entry and it lets you in and they have machines that you can use to refill them.Oh, I know, I was just saying in an obscure way that it's been a while since I've ridden a NYC subway. ;)Houston was actually considering buying about 70 Mi-8 helicopters in 96 as a mass transit system, since the russians were selling them at $75,000 a peice. The idea died in sub comittee, but it wasn't a good idea anyhow, Houstons air traffic would be awful had it went throughThat would be scary not because of the additional air traffic but rather because of the safety (or lack thereof) of the Mi-8's. :shock:

[Gnomish]

I have 8 metro cards from my two visits to NYC... the machines wouldn't let us re-charge them, so we kept getting new ones...