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On NJTrans, the second level is, well, a complete level. With a floor. Here, it's more of a catwalk. And when the conductor comes through to check your ticket, they do it from the lower level, meaning that if you're upstairs, you have to kind of squat down and pass the ticket through the opening in the middle to a person below you.
(And no, I didn't take those photos with some dumb-*** "nostaligia" filter. The windows are tinted green, so that's my 30-second attempt at re-balancing the colors to look semi-normal.)
I'm surprised that not an Advance Auto Parts employee performing the work for a customer in the parking lot--for free--leaving the store completely unattended.
...if you're upstairs, you have to kind of squat down and pass the ticket through the opening in the middle to a person below you.
If you look closely at the rail on the floor of the 2nd level, you will see metal clips near each seat where you are supposed to leave your ticket.
You place your ticket in the clip before you sit down and then the conductor can just do a visual check after he has punched your ticket.
This saves time when the train is full.
The only issue is, you have to remember your ticket when you go to leave, if you purchased a weekend pass or similar.
If you look closely at the rail on the floor of the 2nd level, you will see metal clips near each seat where you are supposed to leave your ticket.
Yes, I'm familiar with that concept. Problem is that if you are infrequent traveler, you have to buy the ticket first. That involves a transaction with the conductor.
Yes, I'm familiar with that concept. Problem is that if you are infrequent traveler, you have to buy the ticket first. That involves a transaction with the conductor.
If you look closely at the rail on the floor of the 2nd level, you will see metal clips near each seat where you are supposed to leave your ticket.
You place your ticket in the clip before you sit down and then the conductor can just do a visual check after he has punched your ticket.
This saves time when the train is full.
The only issue is, you have to remember your ticket when you go to leave, if you purchased a weekend pass or similar.
I don't know if this is odd or not, but you can have open liquor on Metra, and until 2008 they had a bar car on one of the lines. I know at least one of the cars on each train is the quiet car where even speaking softly is prohibited.
Typically when traveling into the city for recreational purposes we would bring "train beers" just because we could.
I don't know if this is odd or not, but you can have open liquor on Metra, and until 2008 they had a bar car on one of the lines.
Not unusual at all. Same deal on the Metro North railroad in New York. In fact, they have a large number of small portable bars which set up at Grand Central right at the platform entrances for the afternoon / evening commute. Pretty sure that the Long Island Railroad allows liquor on board as well, though there are no bar carts at Penn Station to the best of my knowledge. (You can hop over to the Amtrak terminal to buy beers, though.)
On Metro North, they do prohibit liquor on certain occasions, such as on St Patrick's day and New Years, when it's assumed that everyone is already going to be intoxicated prior to boarding.
I know at least one of the cars on each train is the quiet car where even speaking softly is prohibited.
Yeah, Metro North has these to. It's always the northern-most car in the train, so either the first car or the last depending on which way you're going. Why this matters is that the Hudson line is only electrified as far as Croton-Harmon, so all trains going past that point are powered by a diesel locomotive which, of course, is always at the northern end of the train (so that it's furthest away from the passenger hall as the train comes into Grand Central.
Thus, the "quiet car" on Poughkeepsie trains is located right next to a turbocharged 175 liter V-16 engine putting out 4,000 HP.
1. That guy didn't appear to be acting in a threatening manner or endangering anyone but his own *****
2. "black people" who are doing nothing other than sitting or standing but otherwise doing nothing different than you on a vape break are getting shot because they hesitate for a moment thinking they have civil rights enumerated in the constitutional amendments not to be harassed by the government or its blue shirts.
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