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Oct. 4th, 2001 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phamosokay, i have a question i need to ask of the metropolitan transportation authority: do you hate me? do you want me to cry? is that what you want? do you want to see. me. cry????
you are totally at the mercy of the mta every time you get on a train these days. you have no idea where the train may or may not stop. local? express? who can tell? going to brooklyn? terminating in manhattan? why let us know?
you know, i understand that being a train engineer is hella boring. you drive the same route all day, stop when the light tells you, blah blah blah. but wouldn't actually announcing to your passengers where the hell you're going at a screwed up time like this maybe liven the job up a little bit. you know, so that, like, when i get on the train, TELL ME the goddammned thing is ending at chambers street so i could, i don't know, CATCH A DIFFERENT TRAIN THAT ACTUALLY TAKES ME WHERE I'M GOING, which isn't even really where i want to be going in the first place but it's where i have to go because thousands of tons of steel are poking into the line i USED TO take and it's going to be 2 years before that's fixed.
god, i hope it doesn't take them that full two years to resume some sort of consistency with the train lines. someone in my office yesterday got on the train in brooklyn heading for manhattan. except the train didn't STOP in manhattan and swung him all the way back around into brooklyn. useful. thanks. maybe tell the passengers that in queens, though? ok.
you are totally at the mercy of the mta every time you get on a train these days. you have no idea where the train may or may not stop. local? express? who can tell? going to brooklyn? terminating in manhattan? why let us know?
you know, i understand that being a train engineer is hella boring. you drive the same route all day, stop when the light tells you, blah blah blah. but wouldn't actually announcing to your passengers where the hell you're going at a screwed up time like this maybe liven the job up a little bit. you know, so that, like, when i get on the train, TELL ME the goddammned thing is ending at chambers street so i could, i don't know, CATCH A DIFFERENT TRAIN THAT ACTUALLY TAKES ME WHERE I'M GOING, which isn't even really where i want to be going in the first place but it's where i have to go because thousands of tons of steel are poking into the line i USED TO take and it's going to be 2 years before that's fixed.
god, i hope it doesn't take them that full two years to resume some sort of consistency with the train lines. someone in my office yesterday got on the train in brooklyn heading for manhattan. except the train didn't STOP in manhattan and swung him all the way back around into brooklyn. useful. thanks. maybe tell the passengers that in queens, though? ok.
