how to get to manhattan if there is a strike????

uh. what's up with the whole "we might strike, we might not" thing? I'mg oing to be dnow but my job wants me awake early in case I need to be in a cab. I don't like this whole "wake up before 8 a.m." thing. I hate the MTA even more. they fucked me today with the Q and the 2/3 and they are STILL fucking me with this thinking bullshit. stop thinking. quit! bitches. I hate them.

Subject: Re: bike route to the manny b

steveo wrote: Here's the route I like to take from Park Slope to the Manhattan Bridge (via Prospect Hts.) (Carlton to DeKalb to Ashland Pl./Navy to Sands)

yeah, I HATE the entrance on Sands St. I like coming off the bridge there, but I don't want to have to cut across the whole street to get on the mofo. it's shorter, maybe, but I fly up Bedford and get on the Wburg real easily, so, yeah. I also HATE chinatown pedestrians. and motorists, for that matter. I'm convinced I'll run over or be run over by something in that neighborhood. The LES and East Village is more reasonable, somehow.

This "mini strike" kind of sucks. Maybe they want to get us all into Manhattan and then have a subway strike during rush hour.

Subject: Re: bike route to the manny b

muteflute wrote: [quote=steveo]Here's the route I like to take from Park Slope to the Manhattan Bridge (via Prospect Hts.) (Carlton to DeKalb to Ashland Pl./Navy to Sands)

yeah, I HATE the entrance on Sands St. I like coming off the bridge there, but I don't want to have to cut across the whole street to get on the mofo. it's shorter, maybe, but I fly up Bedford and get on the Wburg real easily, so, yeah. I also HATE chinatown pedestrians. and motorists, for that matter. I'm convinced I'll run over or be run over by something in that neighborhood. The LES and East Village is more reasonable, somehow.
Hate the motor, not the motorist, mute. Anyway -- yeah, I'll try it out the WBB sometime. I don't have much of a problem at Sands though -- I stay in the bike lane almost to the intersection where the entrance is, but move over to the left when I have a chance. Same way I make a left turn anywhere, I guess.

Which reminds me, the DOT is supposedly building a center bike lane there on Sands St: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/pr2005/pr05_43.html

Should be great until it gets filled up with debris.

Oiseau wrote: This "mini strike" kind of sucks. Maybe they want to get us all into Manhattan and then have a subway strike during rush hour.

well ... I have a post-work party at Flute tonight so I kinda think if they do strike midway through today (which they won't, but it's still funny to think about), I'll just stay at Flute. it's almost like home. no cats. but lots of bubbly.