Yeah, this.
For what? Penance?
Oh I’ll sit, but it’s an hour and ten or thirty of claustrophobia. I don’t want to be the third person in the row because injury not withstanding, I hate being the crusher as much as I hate being the crushee
Seems like you should be pitting claustrophobia rather than the rail service.
That’s nothing. I use New Jersey Transit, and it’s like that every single damn forking day. Heck, it’s a lot worse at times. One train a bit delayed and people are standing elbow to butt. I’ve missed trains just trying to cross through the concourse to get to my track. Sometimes I wonder if I died and gone to hell or just live in New Jersey. I think in Hell you don’t have to shovel snow, so New Jersey it is.
Here’s yesterday. The cause of this congestion was a single Northeast Corridor train being about 20 minutes late. You don’t need a major holiday for impossible crowds, just a single train being slightly delayed. I don’t know why the Gothamist didn’t print any pictures of the New Jersey concourse, maybe the photographer couldn’t get close enough to snap a picture. Or, maybe he didn’t want that New Jersey association to get all over their new shoes.
And in Hell you have to pump your own gas.
Those pictures remind me of my favorite scene in Crocdile Dundee.
My boss (who commutes Boston -> Philly -> NYC roughly 3 times a month) calls Penn Station the “envy of 3rd world countries everywhere”
I was going to hop in and say “at least NJ Transit went to double-decker cars on the NE corridor to help with the congestion” but I guess “help” is too strong a word.
Metro North must have gotten worse since I used it. I took it to visit a girl friend when I lived in NY and never had a problem, not even the day after Christmas.
Same-same. 