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Posted by Michael549 on Mon Jun 22 02:14:22 2015, in response to Re: A Way to Run the M to Midtown on Weekends, posted by MainR3664 on Sun Jun 21 22:59:49 2015. Understand that I'm not dis-agreeing with you.I went to high school in the mid-1970's, and I lived in the eastern part of the Bronx near 180th Street, and then near Parkchester. My high school was on 59th Street at Tenth Avenue on the west-side. My first set of directions was to take the #2 to 72nd Street and change for the #1 to 59th Street, and walk it. Then I also had to take a bus to the train station. On one of my first days to school, no one told me what to do if I missed getting off the #2 train at 72nd Street. Then I knew very little about the subways, transfers, connections. Before I completely panicked other riders on the train told me what to do at the next stop - Times Square. Our family moved near Parkchester and the #6 train, and I learned a whole new set of travel directions. In those days, many of the trains had conflicting signage, the announcements on the public address systems were often garbled, and there was plenty of graffitti on the trains. I learned to watch out for the 149th Street-Gtand Concourse station and to figure out if the train was to head down the east-side or the west-side of Manhattan. Plenty of times trains would get re-routed, and the train you were on was not going where you hoped. As I learned more about the subways, I had several ways to get to chool in mid-town. The signal lights at that station were instructive - once I had them figured out. Plenty of times on the way home on the #6 train, I'd fall asleep. It was the 1970's, and often I'd catch the #6 train at Grand Central station. Frequently I'd fall asleep and upon waking up I'd check the windows to see where I was. St. Lawrence Avenue was my home station stop making the Parkchester local important. Finding myself on the #6 Pelham Bay express could easily mean going past my stop, if I was not aware of my surroundings. Besides the indicators on the trains, knowing your train line, the various transfer points and important stations is very useful. For whatever reasons trains get re-routed, or one has to take a different pathway. Transit knowledge helps. Mike |
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