Tag: subway
Design failures in the WMATA crash
Design problems worsened the WMATA crash.
Posted: June 23rd, 2009 under News & Musings.
Tags: collission, subway, transit, wmata
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Visiting the new South Ferry
The MTA opened its new South Ferry station in March.
Posted: May 28th, 2009 under Uncategorized, design.
Tags: mass transit, mta, subway, trains, transportation
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96th Street Rising
Second Ave Sagas has neat pictures of the reconstruction of my old home station, 96th Street on the 1/2/3. This is the last northbound transfer and first southbound transfer between the 1 local (Broadway) and the 2/3 express (Lenox Ave) and is very heavily trafficked. For a long time, it has been a dark dungeon [...]
Posted: April 23rd, 2009 under News & Musings.
Tags: mass transit, mta, stations, subway
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“This looks about right”
I always figured they changed the ads when the trains were asleep in the yards, but I was on an in-service train once when it happened. A man with a backpack full of rolled-up ads came in and tore the covers and clips out of the holders, flinging sheets of plastic and paper that narrowly [...]
Posted: April 3rd, 2009 under News & Musings.
Tags: advertising, funny, subway
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