Saturday night, my wife and I went into the city for a dinner party in Manhattan. We hit some serious traffic, which would have been easily avoidable, except all of the traffic signs warning us of what lay ahead had been hacked to read cute little messages (actually, some of them, like this one, were simply meaningless).

This all started a while back when someone figured out how to hack the signs and got one to read ‘Caution: Zombies Ahead’. Now that was funny, once. But yknow what, its not really that funny anymore, its just stupid and annoying, especially when you don’t even bother to write something clever.

Originally appeared on: StationStops - Metro-North Train Schedules and NYC Commuting Blog See the original post here: The Whole Traffic-Sign Hacking Thing – Enough Already

Flickr user and NYC resident jwilly has a great peek at the wealthiest rooftops in NYC.

Originally appeared on: StationStops - Metro-North Train Schedules and NYC Commuting Blog See the original post here: Voyeuristic NYC Real Estate Pornography – Rich Rooftops of NYC [photos]

Barring complete insolvency of MTA (not out of the realm of possibility), the tunnel from 63d St to Grand Central should be finished around 2015.

Originally appeared on: StationStops - Metro-North Train Schedules and NYC Commuting Blog See the original post here: Massive MTA Tunnel-Making Machine is Boring

So, I watched the latest Board Meeting dated 05/28/2008 (well, most of it, it can get kinda boring).

It started with everyone congratulating each other on what a great job they did on the Hudson Yards real estate deal.

Then members of the public are allowed to speak, which abruptly concludes the mutual admiration part of the broadcast, including some finger wagging about the revoked EZ-Pass thingy.

Then boring stuff.
Worth a look though.

Almost as good as the Fairfield County MetroCenter meetings.

Originally appeared on: StationStops - Metro-North Train Schedules and NYC Commuting Blog See the original post here: MTA Public Meetings Available Online as Webcasts

Mobile|Traffic has their own page for navigation, which is better, I think.

So, if you were thinking of heading up to Norwalk to get something at Best Buy or whatever, you might want to check the trouble exits in between to see what you’re in for.

Sometimes if we have friends coming down from Massachusetts we will give them the heads up on whether to take the Merritt based on these cams as well. Nothing is worse than driving 200 fairly traffic-free miles from Boston just to get completely C-blocked the last 5 miles in downtown Stamford – grrrrrr….

Originally appeared on: StationStops - Metro-North Train Schedules and NYC Commuting Blog See the original post here: Live Traffic Cams For Greenwich, Stamford, Norwalk I-95 Online

Today’s Matt Lauer examined the mystery of Track 61 for the Today Show:

Via Trainjotting

Originally appeared on: StationStops - Metro-North Train Schedules and NYC Commuting Blog See the original post here: Track 61 – FDR’s Secret Train Beneath Grand Central Terminal Explored By Today’s Matt Lauer

Mayor Bloomberg had some things to say about that.

Originally appeared on: StationStops - Metro-North Train Schedules and NYC Commuting Blog See the original post here: Congestion Pricing Buried By State Assembly Despite Last Gasps