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It's a good thing to be living in New York where there are multiple transportation options at your immediate disposal. The Metro North was literally "plan D."
Always have backup plans (PLURAL) for your commute, folks. That's the moral of the story.
I'd have gone with "Plan E," i.e., gone back home and called in sick of subways.
Sick customer at Lexington/59th, my train was at 86th (the previous stop). My train was taken out of service after an 8-10 minute wait. All express trains redirected onto the local track. It was so jammed and crush-loaded that you couldn't even get OUT of the station.
Well, this goes back to what I mentioned yesterday - having backup plans. In this case - the M86 bus to the West Side; the M101/M102 buses down Lex.
Just another reason why the 2nd Avenue Line is long past overdue.
The 2nd ave line is a half a$$ excuse of a line that only covers a limited area...had it actually been a complete line that traveled up the Bronx and down through Manhattan..then I would agree that the 2nd ave line is long overdue. For all the money invested, and all the time and incovenience, we should have gotten an entire line and not just a few stops paralleling the 4/5/6.
After going through the mess caused by this signal glitch, I was intrigued to wonder whether nyc is prepared to deal with natural or man made large scale disasters like Katrina.
One may argue that NYC survived 911 ok but that was so localized and targeted attack. In the event of a horrific disaster occurring on this island, how could the public transportation handle the needs of evacuating all the folks here? It is a scary thought that u could not help venting it out to you guys.
I don't think there is any coastal city that can go through a Category 5 hurricane completely unscathed. I only say Category 5 because you used Katrina as an example.
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New Orleans was hit by Katrina as a Level 2 or Level 3 storm...it was destroyed because New Orleans is built in a hole.
A direct hit with a Level 3 storm would devastate New York by flooding the subway system, and the PATH system, perhaps even ALL rail systems.
The City would be out of commission for months.
I agree with the comments on the difficulty in protecting coastal cities from mega natural disasters. Had Katrina hit NYC instead of NL, the casualties would have been uncontrollable. If a category 3 hurricane hits ny and knocks down several of bridges over the river, the residents will have no way tO go but climbing up the skyscrapers to stay dry. And any rescuing efforts will be hindered by the inaccessibility tO NYC.
This brings me to the point that I was trying to establish about the role of city/state/federal governments in regulating how big a city can grow after assessing the such factors. Right now NYC continues to lure residents from ther parts of the country because of the job opportunities. This is creating a crisis of overpopulation IMO.
If you think that ny has been a safe place interns of natural disater Hereford you have no reason to fear about it, that isn't going to help up in preparing and minimizing the risks of screwing public safety.
Control of city size has little bearing on safety. Forbidding building on any site that isn't 50 feet above sea level WOULD protect people but since developers write zoning regulations you get repetitious acts of insanity risking the lives of thousands.
I mean really, is anything more insane than rebuilding New Orleans...AGAIN in a hole?
New Yorkers need not climb skyscrapers to escape a tidal surge. Much of the city is high enough...my doorman is 150 feet up and I'm hardly in the airy heights of Carnegie Hill.
But geez, Battery Park City...gotta be food for thought.
Hey, it is probably not too bad to be hit by some smaller hurricanes as a wake up test of the NYC MTA system which was built without much intention for withstanding Cate. 3 hurricanes. Irene and Sandy will not be so devastating to cause any significant casualties but enough to cripple some of the outdated infrastructure in NYC for couple of days.
Is hurricane new to the North East coast? I was living in the Gulf coast area when Katrina and her siblings visited the south. Since I moved to NY, the south has become hurricane less. Very strange.
Nothing like going to work by bicycle on your own schedule.
No sardine can of people pressing into each other.
No subway delays.
No stinky, crazy people getting on your face.
I have taken the subway proably at most 4 times in the last 3 months.
And I can't say I miss it.
I really need to get my mountain bike rigged to carry my tools.
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