I had a day off today to take care of some family things, so I didn’t take my beloved Fail Road. I know, it’s so depressing. In my time away from my most preferred mode of transportation, I had some time to think. What I thought about most was how long my trip takes. There is no way in hell that a distance of 22 miles should take an hour, especially when you’re in a train.
Why does it take so long? There are many reasons (or so I have been told). There are not enough “slots” meaning space for the trains on the existing track space. The system has a lot of bottlenecks. If one train is a little late passing through one of these critical areas, it throws all the others behind it off-schedule. Another excuse (I mean reason) is the slow crawl through Jamaica. Yet another excuse is the the fact that there aren’t enough tunnels.
I am sure you are saying, “that’s a lot of excuses, what are they doing about it”…the answer is nothing (yet). There are plans to overhaul Jamaica to straighten the tracks, create a “flyover”, etc. Editorial Story Story
By the time this actually happens, I’ll either be dead, have kids, or both. This is all wishful thinking on the MTA/Fail Road. This is an organization that can’t get a fucking train to run on time for a week. You want us to think you can literally rip apart your hub and fix all that’s wrong with it with no problems and delays? If it’s done by 2020 we’ll be lucky.
And now we get to the Bullet Train…I mean Metro North. If I am travelling from Poughkeepsie, for example, the average time to get to Grand Central is about 1 hr and 40 mins. Poughkeepsie is also about 85 miles from New York City. 85 FUCKING MILES!!! I am about 22 miles from the city and my trip is almost ONE HOUR. Does that make any sense? If Metro North followed the Fail Road’s lead, it would eventually take someone in Poughkeepsie 4 FUCKING HOURS to get home. Someone please tell me why this is so.It’s because the Fail Road can’t get their shit together. There is LESS service now than ever before. That means less trains. It also means LONGER TRIPS for us. Metro North on the other hand, knows how to run a transit operation. You can justify it by saying they’re “4 tracked” all the way up, bla bla bla…whatever. If they really wanted to speed things up, they would. They just don’t care about their customers.
Oh well. They don’t care yet we still take the train like good sheeple because we have jobs to get to. Yeah, we could drive, but that means the Fail Road employees would have to do even less. I want you to earn your pensions. Better yet, have some Fail Road management ride our trains for a week, I bet you things would change, and fast.
Baaaaaaa…..
LIFE ON THE FAIL ROAD 