NYC transit strike? PLEASE COMPLAIN HERE:

[shermanslave]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:08pm

I am going to be so freaking pissed if they strike. How do we get to work? And what happens to these unlimited metro cards? We just lose those days? And why did they give us these special holiday metro cards with bonus days if we are just going to lose them? I hate the MTA so much I can barely stand it. I hate that we have to depend on them.

Anyone else mad as hell at the mere possibility of a strike?

Updated On: 12/19/05 at 03:08 PM

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:10pm

Yes, I'm angry as well. They keep demanding more money, and service gets worse each year. And what's with all the construction? What exactly has gotten ANY better to make all these service changes necessary?

But- if they strike on Friday, our company has given us the day off. :)

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:12pm

I hope they don't! I will be as pissed as a munchkin without a ladder!
Updated On: 12/14/05 at 03:12 PM

[shermanslave]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:14pm

The construction on the 7 line has been a joke. There are always signs up stating that there will be no service so you have to do extra transfers, but then half the time after you allow extra time to get where you are going, they are not doing the construction. That pisses me off just as much. I hate the MTA.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:16pm

The 7 is exactly what i was referring to!

I am SICK of finding yellow tape in front of the Manhattan-bound entrance, to be told that I need to take the Queens-bound train further out into QUEENS, and then take an express train to get into Manhattan. Bull****!

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:17pm

"I hate that we have to depend on them."

That's an interesting statement actually. What New Yorkers (and anyone else who feels that they are dependant on these types of situations) should do is find a way of not being dependant on the transit authority and strike them back by not using it. If enough people did it together for say - a month, or even a week - they would get some idea that people will not take it any more.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:17pm

I know Bloomberg isn't a strong enough leader to do it, but I'm hoping it will be a repeat of Reagan with the air traffic controllers. Fire their lazy behinds.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:17pm

If the strike does in fact occur, your unlimited metrocard will be frozen for the duration of the strike and will be unfrozen when the strike ends, so you will not lose those days.

however, if you attempt to use it on any transit during the strike, it will expire at its normally scheduled time.

*end informational segment*

BURN IN HELL, YOU WHINING F*CKS! I wish *I* made a STARTING salary of $24 an hour, got crazy benefits, time off, a pension, and police protection. Oh, you POOR POOR people! It must be so TERRIBLE to only make $50K a year, you miserable complaining a$$hats.

I hope someone rams a picket sign up your goddamn rear ends.

[shermanslave]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:18pm

Just today, my partner left for work 20 minutes early to allow for what the signs said, and they were not doing any construction so he ended up leaving early for no reason. It is just so disrespectful of our time. And when you ask one of the "clerks" at the window all they say is to read the sign.

[Craig]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:19pm

The question that hasn't been raised (as far as I know) is whether or not the MTA could face a huge class action suit in addition to the potential suit brought on by the city. Think of all the money people have spent on weekly, monthly, etc passes to use transportation in NYC.

Ironic that this comes during the time that the MTA boasted "free days" and discounted weekend trips to encourage riders....

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:20pm

"I know Bloomberg isn't a strong enough leader to do it, but I'm hoping it will be a repeat of Reagan with the air traffic controllers."

Ironic how they re-named the airport after him when he fired the lot. Maybe NY can re-name the MTA to Bloomberg Transit afterward.

[shermanslave]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:21pm

Cheese, I would love to have other options and then just quit using the MTA. That would be grand. But I for one cannot afford the car payments and insurance let alone deal with the parking. I am dependant and I realize that they can get me anywhere I need to be most of the time. I just hate that it is my only option.

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:22pm

Yes - and they know it too. That's how they can get away with it. I live in San Francisco and thousands of residents here own Bikes just for that same reason.

[shermanslave]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:22pm

And I love Jailyard Guy.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:24pm

"What New Yorkers (and anyone else who feels that they are dependant on these types of situations) should do is find a way of not being dependant on the transit authority and strike them back by not using it."

I agree cheezedoodle. Unfortunately, people today are lazy. I think they should use the 1955 Montgomery bus strike as their model. (And if a movie, like The Long Walk Home, is made about the NYC MTA walk, I want Matt Damon to play me in the movie.)

[camerangel]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:25pm

Cheezedoodle it also doesn't snow here.. In the winter I think the bike option is limited in NYC.. SF is a whole other beast..

I agree that looking into alternatives would be great, albeit inconvenient..

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:28pm

I know Cam - many have suffered inconvenience to send a simple statement. It just depends on if you are willing to put your money where your mouth is, or just bitch about it instead and resume normally after the strike has passed.

[camerangel]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:32pm

I agree whole heartedly.. Unfortunately people get too content to simply B*tch and do nothing to invoke change..

[shermanslave]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:36pm

What options are there in NYC if you don't have a car? I live in Queens. I certainly can't bike to Brooklyn to go to work and then jot up to the Upper West side to hit an audition and then bike back out to Queens, can I?

I don't have a horse or helicopter. My only choice is to ride tee subway and bitch about it when they do something that is completely unfair to the general public.

And what about this? When your train is pulling into a station where you need to transfer to another train across the platform that is already there, why do they then close the doors to that train and leave the station before the train you are on allows you off to make the transfer? Do they really think they are on such a strict schedule that it has to leave right then?

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:40pm

"My only choice is to ride tee subway and bitch about it when they do something that is completely unfair to the general public."

They know that and that is why you will eventually be paying $5 per ride.

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:41pm

"And what about this? When your train is pulling into a station where you need to transfer to another train across the platform that is already there, why do they then close the doors to that train and leave the station before the train you are on allows you off to make the transfer? Do they really think they are on such a strict schedule that it has to leave right then? "

I totally get this - but sweetie - and don't take this wrong...chill. There will be another train soon and standing on the platform with High Blood Pressure fuming will just make you sick. Nothing is worth that. I know our subway gets backed up when trains remain on the platform for too long and then you have the pain of sitting in a non moving train in the tunnell. Of course - our trains are all computerized and are very seldom run by the operator in the drive seat.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:41pm

Then, O Activists, what should we do? It'd be perfectly fine to say "oh, suck it up and walk" if this were Schenectedy or Teaneck, but it's New York goddamn City. It's a little BIG for that. I, for example, live in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. My day job is on Wall Street, and then, depending on the day of the week, I either have a rehearsal/performance in midtown or Park Slope, or occasionally Elmhurst, Queens where I teach. Now, barring the MTA, how exactly does one propose that I make those particular trips for the same price? Take a car service? Sure...at 25 bucks a pop, each way. No thanks. Carpool?-Who the hell do YOU know that drives in this damn town? Bike?-Yeah right. Let me just go ahead and get killed by a taxi on my Schwinn.

I think the majority of us are vastly content to bitch our brains out at these lazy c*cksuckers and hope that we can convince them that we hate them enough that if they DON"T fix this sh*t, the entire city of New York will be looking for them in a dark alley some night.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:44pm

LOL Luvs it! ^^^

[Elphaba]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:44pm

anyone riding a bicycle in San Francisco, other than in Golden Gate Park, is taking their life in their own hands.......

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 3:46pm

Amen, honey. When I lived in Pacific Heights, I used to take the 47 down Van Ness every day to get to work, and I saw at *least* 10 cyclist accidents a year. You'd have to be one of those mentally-unstable psycho bike messengers to have to even want to THINK about dealing with those lunatic drivers.