Way Around The City using the Subway System on Oct 10, 2015

So this is a new installation of my blog. This part will allow people who use the NYC Subway System know their way around service changes and planned work on the weekends.

October 10, 2015: Your way around the Subway System



 No trains between 14 St and South Ferry:

So, the  will continuously be cut back to 14 St due to construction of Cortlandt St station until Oct 19, 2015.

 Service operates its normal route between 
Van Cortlandt Park - 242 St  and  34 St - Penn Station, then via express from 34 St - Penn Station to 14 St, the last stop for all trains.

NOTE:  and  trains run local from 34 St - Penn Station to Chambers St.


How to get around this?

For customers who want to get off at 28 St, 23 St, and 18 St, transfer at Times Square - 42 St or 14 St to a  or  train.

For customers who want to get off at Christopher St, 
Houston St, Canal St, Franklin St and Chambers St, transfer at Times Square - 42 St or 14 St to a  or  train.

NOTE: Customers who use the  train, please be aware that the strip maps inside the train do not show the local stops 28 St, 
23 St, 18 St, Christopher St, Houston St, Canal St, and Franklin St. Please watch the displays inside the train for stop information.

For customers who are heading towards South Ferry, use the following ideas below:

For Rector St, take a  or  train to Chambers St and use the shuttle bus stop at: West Broadway at Chambers St.

For South Ferry, take a  or  train to Fulton St and transfer to a  or   train to Bowling Green. Or, take the   or  train to Times Square - 42 St and take the 42 St Shuttle  to Grand Central - 42 St and take the  or   train to Bowling Green. Or, take the   or  train to Times Square - 42 St and take the  to Whitehall St.

NYC Subway Vandals

Listen up, there are a group of Subway Vandals who are responsible for trains being late, rollsigns missing, endangering themselves and the passengers, and god knows who else what. If we want to keep the NYC Subway system safe, so that later when we grow up we can actually have a job in the MTA, you HAVE to report anything you see. The police already arrested 2 of the subway vandals, but there are many more out there. If you have any information of where the other culprits are, call the NYPD tip line. This is our subway, and we will not some teenage punks ruin our transit system, because the more they do things to the system, the more restrictions we get on rail fanning, or taking pictures on the subway, etc. If you don't already know the story..:

A Subway Vandal group known as the "Conquestors" are responsible for throwing the system into havoic. They steal destination signs from trains, break into train cabs, and once almost blew up a train.

On April 2, 2015, Keyshawn Brown, one of the members of the Subway Vandal group ripped a rollsign out of its socket on a R32, and then threw it onto the tracks at Nostrand Ave and began filming. A C train filled with dozens of people hits the rollsign on the track, which then connected to the third rail and a huge explosion occurred, activating the trains emergency break. Keyshawn later fled the station, having told a witness "he wanted to do it for fun because he was bored."
The video popped up online, and with the help of a fellow rail fanner named DJ Hammers, he posted a video on youtube about the group does, like change rollsigns and trespassing into tunnels. Once, they wouldn't let a (Q) train leave a station because one of the members kept shoving the door back open.

Here is a picture:

 

 

 

Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGvvliPRqZ8

 

Keyshawn Brown was arrested on Tuesday at Coney Island.

 

And in another video, one of the members who weren't arrested are seen breaking into a cab of a subway car, pushing buttons that could have derailed the train or done something worse. He later comments on the video "I just turned the lights off..."

 

Here is the video:

 



http://pix11.com/2015/04/09/video-shows-subway-rider-allegedly-playing-with-control-panel-in-crew-cab/

 

 

They have done a ton of more things, including surfing on the back of subway trains.

 

The NYC Subway System is a place of travel, and a place of adoring the Subway Trains that go through everyday. Please remember, if your a railfanner, always follow NYC Subway Rules, and never hang out with the wrong people.

 

What do you think of this?