New Tech Train Strip Maps… Stripped!

A few years ago, I took a picture of a strip map on a 6 train that just so happened to be missing its map.



I don't know why it took me so long to do this, but it probably had to do with a rekindled interest in these things in connection with the introduction of a train of R188 cars on the 7.

So what I've been doing is analyzing pictures of these strip maps found on R142 and R143 cars on other lines (they all use the same strip map model, so strip maps are interchangeable), and essentially virtually removed the strip map.

“Take the Train to the Game” they say, Many listen, Übercrowding

So as transit agencies have declared for a while, “Take the Train to the Game,” so I did. Having received tickets to the USA vs. Brazil soccer game at New Meadowlands Stadium, I arranged to meet a friend (who was driving) at the stadium and I would take the train in. Coming in from the 7th Avenue subway and LIRR concourse, the first thing I noticed as I reached the top of the escalator was a REALLY long queue. I followed it to see where it leads, and as you may expect, it leads around a corner and to a bank of four New Jersey Transit ticket vending machines. Near those vending machines was another queue for a more distant bank of vending machines, and near those was another queue for a third bank of vending machines.