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blondie64862 t1_je2k31k wrote

I went to catch a train upstate from Moynihan a few weekends ago for the first time...every single screen wasn't working. I am not joking every single screen wasn't updating for track numbers...so there was an employee walking around with a megaphone 🙃 Then every track entrance the employees had to move around the adjustable line ropes....which people jumped over and they had to yell about not cutting and going to the back of the line.

I just don't understand how trains have been around since the early 1800s and we seem to be getting worse at station design and upkeep

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knockatize t1_je2sza7 wrote

New York specifically is getting worse. Great swaths of the rest of the world have their shit together. New York is where expensive failure is applauded as if it was world-changing success.

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DifficultyNext7666 t1_je4ryjm wrote

Lol who applauds new york?

The only people that think NYC works well are our elected officials and liberals who don't live here who are vested in nyc being a city on a hill to prove conservatives wrong.

Edit: ha, forgot the transplants who have to justify why they live with 3 other people in their 30s making the same amount of money they could have made back in ohio

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lickedTators t1_je3a0c7 wrote

I went to DC a few weeks ago and everything was working. Maybe something happened to the system for the couple hours you were go and now you're extrapolating a single anecdote to hate on the train system.

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Bradaigh t1_je3m99o wrote

You literally provided an anecdote as if that negates their anecdote... 🤦‍♂️

To add more anecdotes, I've been to Moynihan roughly a dozen times, and probably 3 of those times the screens weren't working properly. I'd be curious to see data on how often the system breaks down. A shit ton of money went into this, we deserve better.

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Donny_Crane t1_je4vnmc wrote

I have also been to Moynihan a dozen plus times and never seen the screens not work

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blondie64862 t1_je55krf wrote

I am from New Jersey and I have used NYPS to commute from upstate (where I went to university) and from Brooklyn (where I now live) since 2009, commuting for work to Long Island. NYPS has tons of issues, it's terrible, gross, ugly, disorganized, the tunnels need extensive rehabilitation. BUT! I have never seen the track screens not working.

My main gripe with Moynihan is that it was such an expensive and exhaustive project (even the PM architect killed himself during construction) is that it has an EXTENSIVE screen display. There are screens literally on every column and surface...and not one could show the track. But best believe the blinding red Verizon sign was working.

I have a lot of issues with the architecture and infrastructure in the city. And the majority isn't asking what will make commuting easier...but what will make it flashy.

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rvbcaboose1018 t1_je3bzmu wrote

It's because the MTA is corrupt and we keep trying to figure out ways to give them more money and power.

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Desterado t1_je5gpum wrote

The MTA doesn’t have anything to do with Moynihan though.

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