[EminemsRevenge]

Okay Mr Walder, welcome back to NYC...alas, like President Obama, you're inheriting a system that is severely broken!

In all your press, I've noticed that you're against Mayor-for-Life Bloomberg's "free ride" campaign proposal...that should extend to MTA employees! Postal workers don't get free stamps, so why should MTA employees? The only exception I can see to the free ride rule would be firefighters and police men.

The other day the MTA was crowing about how ALL their escalators were working...counted two today that weren't, the most notable one was the escalator on the 6 to the E/V tonight. I am almost sure that the MTA subcontracts escalator repairs to a private contractor---idea---how about sending some MTA employees to escalator repair school?

Years ago, I remember there was some kid who drove the trains up and down the Franklin Avenue shuttle line, so "motorman" is not a skilled position, and "conductor" even less so! This may sound racist, but being a Jamaicarican maybe it won't---conductors SHOULD be able to speak in understandable English?

And you should investigates some of these conundrums:

• Twenty years ago you could go from Jamaica Center to the World Trade Center in 55 minute...NOW you can't make the same trip from Jamaica Center to 42nd Street in that time!
  
  
• 20 years ago there was no delay INTO Jamaica Center due to "congestion"...NOW it takes ten minutes, minimum, to go from Sutphin Blvd to Jamaica Center...no matter what time of day or night!
  
  
• WHY do the new subway cars, which seat THREE can only seat TWO MTA workers?
  
  
• As long as transit "workers" ride for free...shouldn't they give up their seats for PAYING CUSTOMERS?
  
  
• There's an old addage---Get a job with the city is like winning the lottery...you'll NEVER have to work again---are you gonna DISCOURAGE this mentality???

As Matt Drudge would say, [these complaints ARE] developing....

[EminemsRevenge]

Dear Mr Chairman,

If you read today's Daily News, then you've met New York's number one sycophant...Gene Russianoff

As he contends:

Walder can begin by making it clear that he cares about the MTA's customers. He can do this by blocking the pending cuts of hundreds of mechanics, cleaners and station clerks.

WE THE CUSTOMERS are pretty pissed that those clowns are getting an 11% raise whilst one in ten of us are unemployed, and I don't know the statistics, but there are many like me that are under-employed!

Skilled positions like bus drivers, mechanics, and electricians shouldn't be cut from the work force...motormen, conductors, and token booth clerks are jobs that could be filled by non-union employees with virtually no experience--for ten dollars an hour and paid holidays/minimal health coverage you would be able to have a job fair at your white elephant 2 Broadway building and the line of job-seekers would probably go all the way to the GWB!

And you now know that with Gene Russianoff in NYC you could save a fortune on toilet paper, even though he goes on to say:

This would follow in the steps of former MTA Chairman Peter Stangl, who reversed a set of proposed cuts when he took office in 1991

Russianoff seems to be ignorant of the fact that while America was broke in '91, it wasn't damn near bankrupt

Subway cleaning???

ASK Jay-Z to do a PSA...if he can't do it, I'm sure he'll be able to round up some top NYC hip-hop stars to do the PSAs requesting all the kids to lend a hand and make it hip to pick up not only THEIR trash, but everyone elses.

[An aside---your Wiki entry don't say WHAT year you went to Beach Channel...but IF you were class of '76(and i DO believe you were) I was the Jamaicarican acid head into the Stones and Hendrix who won back-to-back championships on Jon Shiparo & Eddie Henning's team in gym hockey, and was Ms Kearney's favourite student...can't find my yearbook now:(]

So if you are a bicentennial BC grad, you know how it pains me to suggest that you do some Reaganesque union breaking...but unlike the air traffic controllers' union, the TWU is almost akin to the Über-bonus seeking schmucks on Wall Street...and EFF what Russianoff is trying to sell you, the public is NOT best served by capitulating to what Gene (non)RussianOAF might lead you to believe!

As for the WORKERS in the MTA---last night I took the 8:30 PM Freeport-bound N4 bus [Bus #1729/Plate # M 50290] from Jamaica Center. HE used to be on time ALL the time even in a blizzard...but lately he's been slacking off like most MTA employees...he was 5 minutes late last night

ON TIME BONUSES?

REWARD those who can and DO make the transit experience a good experience

[mrkredo]

C'mon guys, give us some effort and vote!

[EminemsRevenge]

Nassau-bound Bus KILLS 5, Dozens Injured
MTA faces multi-million dollar lawsuit!



Yeah, Waldo...that's a headline that you can look forward to in the near future

The 6:25 P.M. N4 bus to Freeport may have come on time since I got off at Jamaica Center at 6:26, but I doubt it since there was already a line, albeit small. The 6:38 was definitely late, since the next bus did not come until 6:44.....

So there was the just released con who almost beat the crap out of an Oh i didn't know the line went down the block...this is my first time bimbo--and because bus #1720 [Plate # M50284] was criminally late--it's just a matter of time before an assaulted passenger sues the hell out of the MTA.

But since said driver was probably the 6:25 man, and lawd knows what happened to the 6:38, HE decided to make up for lost time by flying down Merrick Boulevard at over 60 mph...and I'm sure he hit seventy. At 220th and Merrick he had to slam on the brakes and swerve to avoid a car pulling out from a parking spot...a couple of old ladies almost needed hip-replacements because of this maneuver!

And what about that SUV family pulling out of a parking spot on Merrick?

Guess three Black kids dead ain't no PR problem

Sooner or later there'll be another M.A.D.D.--Mothers Against DUMB Drivers!

[EminemsRevenge]

FIGHT NIGHT ON THE N4

I'm sure I've mentioned elsewhere that it was inevitable that fighting would break out because of the interminable lines for the N4, and one needn't be a Nostradamus to predict that...and tonight was the night.

The 6:38 P.M. bus to Freeport came around 6:50, as usual, and the 6:49 was only six minutes late and it promised to be a honky dory ride home...seats for everyone Alas, two ladies at the front of the line...one mid to late thirties, the other fifty-something, were obviously perturbed since they were on line for over twenty minutes, and the pushed each other getting on then


Although it wasn't as good.....

The elder lady put the second bus out of service since she refused to leave until a police report was filed, and if she files a suit against the MTA her lawyer, if he's enterprising, might find this site in a Google-search, and afterwards it won't be hard to prove that YOU and the MTA are aware of the problems with the N4 to Freeport yet have done nothing to correct it.

Of course, the bus driver did nothing to break up the fight--Transit Workers Union policy?

If You See Something, Say Something

[Doctor Manhattan]

EminemsRevenge, on 28 October 2009 - 09:42 PM, said:

Of course, the bus driver did nothing to break up the fight--Transit Workers Union policy?

I'm sure it's in the union contract, but it's also not in the interest of the MTA for any of their employees to get involved. They're a juicy enough lawsuit target as it is.

[mrkredo]

Found this D train subway fight audio while surfing the web last week.




But that still didn't beat this epic fight on SF Muni Bus in Chinatown.

[EminemsRevenge]

Jay you pisher---

Looks like YOU cured the N4-to-Freeport problem just to shut me up...and the E train to Jamaica Center now takes 15-20 minutes from Union Turnpike to its final destination instead of the usual half an hour--but WHY does the L train to Eight Avenue regularly bypasses the First Avenue station?

Don't know if it stops on Third Avenue or goes straight to Union Square...but guess what?

Beth Israel Hospital is on First...and if my heart's palpitating and I live in Brooklyn thinking it might be an upcoming heart attack, logic dictates that you'd get to BI quicker on the L train than in an ambulance--DOA

GUESS they didn't teach you that bypassing hospitals not only can increase the MTA death count, but it can also open up you organization to some serious lawsuits?

BTW, the other day someone asked me to mail their bills from Manhattan since now that all Queens' mail been consolidated into Brooklyn the Post Office has reverted back to those old Henny Youngman jokes RE: service--and I told them that I could take the E to 34th & Eighth and still be at work on time since it'd take as much time to wait for a B or D train to 42nd as it would to walk from the main post office across the street from the Garden--their response?

Same as it never was flashback...since they went to John Jay and had to D or B it to 59th--and haven't done so since they graduated almost 30 years ago--THEY glad they don't have to depend on the MTA anymore

EFF the timeclocks...get the trains in the station ON TIME

[EminemsRevenge]

Survey THIS

First, I'd like to thank Debbie Schlussel for hipping me to the photo, even though I didn't get it from her site.

A little after 10 A.M. I came out of 317 East 34th and saw the M34 @ the First Avenue stop, so I knew i'd be able to catch it at Second Avenue...so I walked over there and ran into one of your "survey" takers...well actually FOUR, three were sitting on the bench in the shelter and one was actually surveying

She was asking some Eastside Barbie some of the most inane questions i've ever heard, and of course the answers were classic Paris Hilton, i.e., clueless!

Want a real answer to how the MTA is doing...ask someone who works for a living--messengers and delivery dudes who depend on your bogus system, and guess what--you'll find out that the MTA is doing as good as Ed Koch was if he got it into his mind to seek a fourth term

And when are you gonna send some survey teams to Jamaica Center, Far Rockaway, Harlem, or anywhere there's working folk...oh yeah, minorities don't count, right?

[EminemsRevenge]

Doctor Manhattan, on 30 October 2009 - 10:21 AM, said:

I'm sure it's in the union contract, but it's also not in the interest of the MTA for any of their employees to get involved.

In a Heather Haddon amNewYork EXLUSIVE today my favourite transit reported wrote:

the MTA would spare 500 station agents set to get pink slips if the Transportation Workers Union Local 100 gave up 3.3 percent wages in 2011

something i HINTED @ yesterday

MUST be that Rockaway upbringing we shared, even though Belle Harbour was nothing like the Beach 60's.....

Every other day there's a story about some company laying off hundreds, if not thousands, to meet the bottom line and please their shareholders...Samuelson and Co seem to FORGET that now only are WE THE PEOPLE the shareholders...we're also the CONSUMERS--therefore WE are paying TWICE to get screwed to the max