Re: why the heck is there no service to Carroll St on the F/G?

Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 21:56:34 GMT
Newsgroups: nyc.transit
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David J. Greenberger wrote:
>
> "Peter T. Daniels" <email-address-deleted> writes:
>
> > David J. Greenberger wrote:
> >
> > > Block tickets are normally distributed from the booth. Sometimes
> > > someone else, like a police officer, happens to be available and lends a
> > > helping hand from outside the booth.
> >
> > Whenever I've gotten one -- either when service is suspended north of
> > Dyckman or of 215th St. for bridge work (are they ever going to finish
> > the Broadway Bridge?) or in the emergency of the Washington Heights
> > blackout a couple years ago -- it's been from a person by the exit slam
> > gate, not from the booth.
>
> Block tickets aren't given out for planned service outages -- those are
> GO transfers. (What's the difference? A block ticket can be used on
> any NYCT or NYCT-equivalent transit service, aside from express buses,
> within two days of issuance. A GO transfer can only be used at
> designated stations but is valid for a full quarter.)
>
> I don't know why you would have gotten a GO transfer for bridge work.
> The shuttle bus doesn't collect a fare and there's nowhere to transfer
> back to the subway at the other end. I rode the 1 to the last stop one
> weekend that is was terminating at 215th, and nobody gave me anything.
> (If I had changed my mind and wanted to go back downtown, I would have
> had to pay a second fare.) There isn't even a booth on the NB side at
> 215th, so I don't know how block tickets are distributed there.
So it wasn't bridge work. The subway took me to Dyckman, then a
continuous relay of buses down Broadway to 137th (stopping only at the
streets where there are stations, incl. 181st, which has no Broadway
entrance) where the ticket certainly was needed.
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Peter T. Daniels email-address-deleted