From: nick+mtr@nicksandru.com   
      
   On 09/03/2014 08:17 PM, JG wrote:   
   > On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 7:11:50 AM UTC-5, Nick Sandru wrote:   
   >> On 09/02/2014 03:15 PM, conklin wrote:   
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   >>> [...]  I thought that the bad food was the least   
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   >>> of the problems in the modern Penn Station.  No/ bad AC is a far greater   
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   >>> bother.  The waiting room reminds me of the IRT #2, minus the bubble gum on   
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   >>> the floor.  The call for the DC trains is like a cattle call with so many   
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   >>> people lined up you can't even GET to the waiting areas.   
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   >> Add to that the crowding in the morning hours - especially when two full   
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   >> NJT trains arrive at the same platform one after the other and discharge   
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   >> 2000+ passengers in the same time. The stairways in the west end of the   
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   >> platforms are closed for rebuilding. It may take 10 minutes to get from   
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   >> the train to the concourse over the remaining 2 or 3 stairways or   
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   > NJT sounds like First Class service compared to Metra-BSMF. They run a   
   Sunday train with standing passengers and TWO closed cars, and of course the   
   platform ceiling drips "street ooze" regularly at CUS after rains. Dodgeing   
   street ooze is a great    
   morning challenge when walking up the platform on track 2.   
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   I would prefer street ooze to the mouse that fell or jumped off a beam   
   in a subway station, landed on my shoulder and got tangled in my hair.   
   It was a challenge for me to extricate the critter without being bitten.   
      
   Standing passengers - that is something I am familiar with when NJT   
   trains are delayed or cancelled. And I have been through worse than that   
   when I was living in Bucharest, Romania, until the late 1980s. Buses and   
   streetcars were routinely going with open doors and passengers hanging   
   on the steps.   
      
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   Nick Sandru   
   Somerville, NJ   
      
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