Be careful of the moving platform.

14th Street-Union Square (IRT), Uptown platform
These new countdown displays are nice. They tell you how long you can expect to wait for your train. They tell you important messages related to subway service, and in this case, they give some sort of safety message. For those who are not aware, this station has platform gap fillers (also referred to as "moving platforms") installed on the downtown platform, due to the severe curvature of the platform.

The thing is that the uptown platform does not have platform gap fillers, but the message is displayed on the displays hanging over the uptown platform anyway. Isn't it nice to be warned about something that exists in one location, but doesn't exist in another?

Wrong Beverley, Beverly!

This screenshot taken with my iPhone shows an art display in a subway station. The caption identifies the station as "Beverley Road and Nostrand Avenue on the Q line." Whoever wrote this caption needs to look at a subway map. Beverley/Nostrand is NOT on the Q line! It is on the 2 and 5 lines! Not only that, the station at Nostrand Avenue is fully underground. The station in the photo is in an open cut. The image is indeed of a station on the Q line, but it's Beverley Road and East 16th Street.

0:08 AM

Taken just shortly after midnight, the clock on this R142 car reads, "0:08 AM." It's a mix between the computer's internal 24-hour clock and the forced formatting of the time into a double-12 AM/PM format. However, they seemed to have left out the line of code which says that if the hour is 0, then the display should show 12 as the hour.

Either that, or they should just drop the AM/PM bit, and just go to using a 24-hour clock on the display, like they did with the R110A and R110B.

How Far Is It to the LIRR?

At the Vernon-Jackson station in Long Island City, you have these signs. One says that it's only 2 blocks to the LIRR. The other says it's 3 blocks to the LIRR. So which is it? It's actually two short blocks (from 50th Avenue to Borden Avenue), followed by a long block, that's about the length of two-and-a-half blocks (from Vernon Boulevard to 5th Street). You can see the neighborhood in the map below.


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What Color is the Lexington Avenue Line, anyway?

It's certainly not red!