donttouchthirdrail t1_jb0qpn4 wrote on March 5, 2023 at 3:35 PM

Reply to comment by caffeine314 in If you’re ever annoyed by service changes because of “Track Repair”, never forget the hard work behind them that keeps our subway alive. by beechcraft10

That is not at all what my mom described the trains like when she was growing up

caffeine314 t1_jb3a6bh wrote on March 6, 2023 at 2:36 AM

Don't know what to tell you. Your mom and I are probably similar age. I graduated Edward R Murrow in 1987. Used to go to the village a lot. 8th street playhouse once a week for midnight showing of Rock Horror - that would be the 1 train to Christopher Street. I'd hang out at CBGBs a lot. That was the 6 to Bleecker. Home was 2/3 to Eastern Parkway. And then Murrow was D,M, and Qb.

I was always on the trains, but these were pretty much my go-to places. There were always shitty nights, of course, but by and large, the trains were a WHOLE lot more reliable back then.

donttouchthirdrail t1_jb3cvf6 wrote on March 6, 2023 at 2:58 AM

Wow exactly the same age lol. Most of the stuff my mom would mention was doors opening in transit, lights going out, random stop and holds between stations and stuff like that. She said it was a hell of a lot less reliable.

She lived off the 123/BCK with my grandma and the DMQ with my grandad.

They did slow down the trains in the 90s after the union square crash in 91, and a lot of TOs go under the speed limit because a bunch of the two shot grade timers aren't calibrated well, but that was before I was born so I can't really comment on that.