Trains in Inwood

So-- The trains up here are usually great.

They run local on the weekends and local after 11 give or take a few minutes.
But the one issue up here is; often they will shut down the A train for a weekend from 207 to 168th street.

Now I woke up all refreshed and spunky this morning- in fact as i entered the A terminal at Dyckman I commented to myself on what a perfectly nice day it was- when suddenly I was greeted by several different people with sour looks on their faces. "You gots to to get on the shuttle- there aint no service."
So we all scamper as fast as we can to the corner by the park to catch the shuttle (Broadway and Thayer) cause we hear the bus coming.
Now, ladies and gentleman.. I do not mind a bus, they are great for getting across town and such when you need to go from 84th CPW to E 84th. But taking a bus down from 200th to 168 is a miserable thing. For some reason people like to request stops at ridiculously close intervals, so what should have been a 10 minute trip MAX, becomes a 20 minute trip.

Now when one has to be somewhere promptly- because if he is late it means he need not come at all -- it can make what was going to be a 25 minute trip into midtown into an excursion worse than a diarrhea induced panic attack.

So the bus finally reaches 168th and all 80 of us packed on it scurry down a little hole to get on the A train which is running local.

Thank God I am moderately neurotic and like to wake up all fresh and perky and get places early. Or I would have been at least a half an hour late where as I would usually be half an hour early. I was right on time.
So i suppose the moral of this story is that when you live so far from your place of work- you need to allow yourself an excessive amount of time to account for the MTA's inability to inform the public of train changes.

Oh that and apparently now there are tornadoes in new york city, and since the MTA cant cope with ANY AMOUNT OF RAIN... hail a cab when you it drizzles.

You can also find out more about service changes at the MTA website: http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/

Thankfully living where I do- You are never far from the 1 train as well. Which feeds into the Bronx and has a nice Target store just over the canal in Marble hill.

The 1 train is located at Dyckman and Nagel.