From: nilknocgeo@earthlink.net   
      
   "Nick Sandru"  wrote in message   
   news:lu8fhu$a5l$1@nicksandru.eternal-september.org...   
   > 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   
   >>>   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   > 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   
      
   Going to school on the IRT and getting on at the end of the line, there were   
   no open seats even there, and very crowded standing-only conditions from   
   stop 2 and on to Manhattan.  Basically most people went to work standing the   
   whole way.  Normal.   
      
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