Peter Schleifer <pschleif@speakeasy.org> wrote:
> michael549@ (Michael549) wrote:
>
> >Nothing here my neck of Staten Island to report - the regular city
> >buses were working. However the city did seem very quiet.
>
> I would bet that the people with the most interesting stories aren't
> able to post them yet.
One person in the office had a small earbuds radio, that's
how we found out what was going on.
I've never used buses, so I called up a friend to ask which bus
to take. After asking six different officers where the bus stop
was for that one, I found out that NYPD doesn't know anything
about buses.
Eventually I got a cab home from Bowling Green when the people
who got to the cab first were turned away because the driver
wasn't going to leave Manhatten - the coppers wouldn't let cars
back in once they drove out. Sounds like a bad idea for cabs/livery
when so many people need a way home.
One cabbie said he was about to run out of gas and wasn't
picking up anyone.
I didn't leave until 11:45 PM, to wait out the crowds, and I
was listening to stations like WYNC and WCBS and others.
NOT ONE gave status on the buses. It was "the subways are out,
traffic is slow across the bridges, NJ Transit has only a couple
trains running..." I called 311 and they said their computers
were down and they couldn't tell me anything about the buses.
They referred me to the MTA. I got a recording saying the recording
was made at 5 PM and that blah blah blah blah there are some buses
with great delays.
The few buses I did see were stuffed to the gills, with about 11 people
jammed past the "white line" all the way down to the last step inside
the door. "Not In Service" or "Take Next Bus."
Some streets were so dark you had to wait for a car to go
by to take any steps. NYPD had these cute little scooters.
They used flares on the streets, lighting in some places.
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