nyc fact/tip #20:

nyc has a great public transit system, subway and bus. it’s the best in north america. but, that doesn’t mean it’s perfect. it’s far from it.

here are things that are bad about the nyc subway and bus:

• metrocard machines make you want to bring latex gloves so you can use them without touching that nasty grease and who knows what on the screen

• when you miss the train and realize the next one is in like 30 minutes

• not understanding what they are saying across the pa system on the train so you don’t realize the train is actually express or skipping a station until it’s too late

• card being declined on the omny reader so you are barred from using it until you pay back, and then you pay back on the website, and then it says you need to re-activate your card to use omny again, but there’s NO BUTTON to do that, so you email the customer support and they never respond (besides the robot a few days later), and now you can’t log into your account on the website and don’t want to call the live customer support (because you hate calling).

• i can’t read a bus map. way too many lines and stops for me, just use google maps. (not a problem with nyct but with myself lol)

• when you refill your metrocard and it charges you but the money never goes on the card so it just robbed you

• when the metrocard machine only accepts cash or is broken all together