New York Subway: Difference between revisions

 

The trope here is that the subways of [[New York City]] are hot, grimy, filthy, encrusted with graffiti, and magnets for street crime. While this was once [[Subways Suck|basically true, subway cars haven't fit this bill]] since 1990. Some common representations, however, ''are'' true:

* Trains have a tendency to break down at inconvenient times. Actually, worse than breakdowns are scheduled service interruptions for maintenance, which can make traveling on the weekends difficult. At least the MTA is smart enough to not mess with commuter hours.

* The cars are full of panhandlers and napping vagrants. Panhandling is illegal in the subways, and patrons have mastered the art of ignoring it, but it's still common for someone to enter a subway car and tell a sob story, ending with "if you can help me out at all..."

Another reality-impaired subway trope is that there are [[Sinister Subway|miles upon miles of abandoned subway tunnels beneath the city,]] just [[Beneath the Earth|waiting to be inhabited]] by [[Morlocks|something evil]]. Not so much. Though, there ''are'' several abandoned stations, as well as the infamously half-complete Second Avenue Line, which has been on the city's to-do list for decades. (They're claiming a 2016 completion date now. Bets?)

 

 

Although much of the subway operates underground (roughly 60% of its stations), the system does include large sections of elevated track, particularly in the outer boroughs.