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Saw the NEW 1 train station today. OMG. I know it's wrong to get hyped up about what the MTA does (they'll always screw you over in the end, of course) but - I'm so thrilled. It's not a cramped, claustrophobic death trap anymore! OMG! (Seriously, I have only two words to say about the old station: Fire hazard.)
I'm a little irked that it doesn't enter directly into the terminal anymore, but that's more than made up for in the fact that I now have the freedom to enter the 1 train going down to the boat and sit wherever I want. No running for the front! No endless delays at Rector while the clueless suddenly run to the front! I cannot express how blissful this thought is. BLISSFUL.
Of course, now that all that construction is over, we can see that we have this massively clear and empty space in front of the terminal. Not even pretty, just plain asphalt. They ought to put something there. Trees, benches, public art - something. Anything!
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Recently, I've been reading this series of books about... well, it's hard to explain. First one is Fairy Tale Detectives. Reading them at the library because they're not *that* great that I want to buy them. Bit predictable, really. In one of them, the main characters end up (back) in New York, on a runaway 1 train. Talk talk talk, you can't speed into the South Ferry station because it's the "end of the line" and presumably you'll crash. This was published well before the new station, of course. Somebody didn't ever ride the 1/9, that's for sure - getting off at the boat, at the old station, the trains didn't stop. They just turned around. A very tight turn, of course, so you wouldn't want to drive in on a train at any speed - but nobody's crashing headlong into the wall at the end of the line because there wasn't one.
Then they headed up the ramp into the terminal, which again - wrong. I mean, the timeline in these books isn't that clear, but the ramp's been gone. Pretty sure it was already gone when the first book was published back in 2005. In fact, I'm certain of it. Gosh, I miss that ramp.
They're little details, of course, but they're really annoying. These details aren't that hard to check. How hard can it be to get them right? (If the author had ever posted over on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
little_details you know I'd've been there to set him straight! But now it's published, and a little late for that.)
I'm a little irked that it doesn't enter directly into the terminal anymore, but that's more than made up for in the fact that I now have the freedom to enter the 1 train going down to the boat and sit wherever I want. No running for the front! No endless delays at Rector while the clueless suddenly run to the front! I cannot express how blissful this thought is. BLISSFUL.
Of course, now that all that construction is over, we can see that we have this massively clear and empty space in front of the terminal. Not even pretty, just plain asphalt. They ought to put something there. Trees, benches, public art - something. Anything!
Recently, I've been reading this series of books about... well, it's hard to explain. First one is Fairy Tale Detectives. Reading them at the library because they're not *that* great that I want to buy them. Bit predictable, really. In one of them, the main characters end up (back) in New York, on a runaway 1 train. Talk talk talk, you can't speed into the South Ferry station because it's the "end of the line" and presumably you'll crash. This was published well before the new station, of course. Somebody didn't ever ride the 1/9, that's for sure - getting off at the boat, at the old station, the trains didn't stop. They just turned around. A very tight turn, of course, so you wouldn't want to drive in on a train at any speed - but nobody's crashing headlong into the wall at the end of the line because there wasn't one.
Then they headed up the ramp into the terminal, which again - wrong. I mean, the timeline in these books isn't that clear, but the ramp's been gone. Pretty sure it was already gone when the first book was published back in 2005. In fact, I'm certain of it. Gosh, I miss that ramp.
They're little details, of course, but they're really annoying. These details aren't that hard to check. How hard can it be to get them right? (If the author had ever posted over on
little_details you know I'd've been there to set him straight! But now it's published, and a little late for that.)
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Date: 2009-03-25 04:33 pm (UTC)When I visited NYC a couple months back, I was down there and wondering why the hell the subway still had an active station that was only long enough for half a train. I had no idea what all the construction was about.
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Date: 2009-03-25 11:23 pm (UTC)As for why we still had that station long after the others were updated, I'm sure it was a combination of "Staten Island Is Always Last" and "Construction Is A Bitch", combined with a little "Never Enough Cash To Go Around".
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Date: 2009-03-25 04:33 pm (UTC)When I visited NYC a couple months back, I was down there and wondering why the hell the subway still had an active station that was only long enough for half a train. I had no idea what all the construction was about.
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Date: 2009-03-25 11:23 pm (UTC)As for why we still had that station long after the others were updated, I'm sure it was a combination of "Staten Island Is Always Last" and "Construction Is A Bitch", combined with a little "Never Enough Cash To Go Around".