The One Train

The 1 Train Scores Highest in the "State of the Subways" Report

Well, I could have told you that.

(And a Tolkien reference too! How appropos.)

More Subway News

At 6:06 a.m. yesterday, 24 hours and 2 minutes after setting off on their quest to pass by all 468 subway stations, Dan Green and Donald Badaczewski pulled in to the end of the No. 6 line - a full hour faster than the record two other pals set in 1998.

(Incidentally, the journalism world is amusingly small; the story's writer was my news editor at Spectator last year.)

In Keeping With This Blog's Theme

Conductor: This is an express, uptown C train. You heard right: an express C train. Next stop: 125th Street. If you need local service on the Upper West Side, please transfer across the platform to the D, as in "Daddy done did it" or B, as in "bad boy Bobby Brown" train.

--C train, 59th St

More unusual subway announcements, courtesy of Overheard in NYC. How come my conductors are never this amusing?

Asleep on the One Train