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Introduction!
Howdy!
Welcome to my blog folks. Since this is my first one, let me introduce myself. I am a young man in my twenties that has lived in the wonderful borough of Brooklyn all of my life. I am currenty single and attending college to obtain a degree in sociology and political science. As for myself, I love having fun, going around NYC, playing sports, reading and I also happen to be a very big railroad fan.
After living here in Brooklyn and riding our city’s subway system for many years, I have found it amazing on why there are so many delays, why my commutes are never the same length every day, and the hundreds upon hundreds of excuses of why trains are delayed. After railfanning on the NYC subway system for many years, I have noticed that the rising amount of delays are not due to the older rolling stock or to more contruction projects. They are due to train operators, believe me, there are some out there that deserve a medal for their good work, but there are others that are, in a straightfoward manner, not proficient and prudent about their work, and their errors of judgement on operating trains along with mismanadged scheduling and other factors amount to delays.
With all of this going on, I have decided to do my own project about the MTA. For the year 2007, the MTA claims that 7% of trains were delayed, mainly due to passengers holding doors and the “increasing” amount of construction projects. But come on, common sense will tell you that their boasting of 7% is completely out of this world and maybe completely out of this dimension in which we exist.
What I have decided to do is to collect statistical information about the MTA by seeing how many errors train operators make on the trip from which line and which part of it I ride on, how long the trip is, what errors in judgement are committed, how many construction zones are present if any, how long I have to wait for my train and how lopsided service is.
For those of you that are reading this, you may wonder, why is this person here doing such a thing? But here is the answer to your question. Errors committed by train operators add to delays on trips. When more and more trains are delayed due to this, this will eventually effect the entire line, and will most likely cause delays on other lines. Sure, delays may not seem to harm you. However, delays cost money! When trains are delayed, workers for the MTA have to work overtime, meaning wages have to be given out, and when the total salary increases, the MTA will complain and say they need more money from us to pay for this. And for you folks out there that rely on the subway, these delays may cause you to be late for work, class, important appointments such as ones with courts, doctors, job intervies, etc and for many other important fuctions of daily life within the bounds of the subway system.
The other main factor of why I am doing this is not only to prove what errors in judgement do and how they effect train operations, but also to show you folks out there how the MTA loves, and I mean they really enjoy to do so, which is to constantly dupe and sometimes outright lie the public and try to cover up what really happens, which to me is a big problem and a even bigger shame for an important and large organization to do so!
In the meatime, I shall update you more about my project and how it is going along, what my data is showing, plus I’ll tell you folks about many incidents that I have seen while riding the rails to show you how “well” the MTA really operates and to mention other factors of my book.
So take care in the meantime and I hope you enjoyed this, and will enjoy my many other blogs to come in the future. I shall also add some pictures at a not to distant future.
Yours truly,
BrooklynBrightliner55
