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Aug. 5th, 2006
"Welcome aboard the Staten Island Ferry. Please take a moment to pay attention to the following safety announcements."
or, when leaving...
"All passengers must depart the ferry at this time. Passengers wishing to make a return trip to Manhattan must exit into the terminal to await the next ferry."
This announcements get into your brain, they really do. I've heard four year olds reciting them before getting on the boat. I've heard teenagers going through the spiel when leaving the boat. I've heard people of all ages (including myself) mindlessly humming or reciting along as the announcement went through.
If I were to write a children's book about riding the ferry, it'd have to include the whole routine, because it's clearly an essential part of life if you take the boat too often.
"Please stay off stairs, ramps, and landings during docking. Failure to do so could result in serious injury."
I tell you, the announcements even show up in dreams.
Anything like that happen to anybody else lately?
or, when leaving...
"All passengers must depart the ferry at this time. Passengers wishing to make a return trip to Manhattan must exit into the terminal to await the next ferry."
This announcements get into your brain, they really do. I've heard four year olds reciting them before getting on the boat. I've heard teenagers going through the spiel when leaving the boat. I've heard people of all ages (including myself) mindlessly humming or reciting along as the announcement went through.
If I were to write a children's book about riding the ferry, it'd have to include the whole routine, because it's clearly an essential part of life if you take the boat too often.
"Please stay off stairs, ramps, and landings during docking. Failure to do so could result in serious injury."
I tell you, the announcements even show up in dreams.
Anything like that happen to anybody else lately?
Words cannot express the sentiments I feel regarding this.
Of course, all the development they want to talk about doesn't matter until we get a real train system in here. One that has more than one line, thanks. It would have been so simple to connect Staten Island to Brooklyn with a train line via the Verrazano, but it wasn't built like that, was it?
Staten Island can't come to anything without a real system. Trains flat out, subway, trolley for all I care, busses and cars just won't cut it.
(On a similar, but not really related note, this city as a whole needs to make more use of its waterways. There should be ferries between running all up and down Manhattan, and to each of the other boroughs. Real ferries, that people really use often.)
Of course, all the development they want to talk about doesn't matter until we get a real train system in here. One that has more than one line, thanks. It would have been so simple to connect Staten Island to Brooklyn with a train line via the Verrazano, but it wasn't built like that, was it?
Staten Island can't come to anything without a real system. Trains flat out, subway, trolley for all I care, busses and cars just won't cut it.
(On a similar, but not really related note, this city as a whole needs to make more use of its waterways. There should be ferries between running all up and down Manhattan, and to each of the other boroughs. Real ferries, that people really use often.)