New York Could Become First Major U.S. City to Cap Uber and Similar Vehicles

Re:New York Could Become First Major U.S. City to Cap Uber a... by TuringNYC on Friday July 27, 2018 @12:20PM (#17627076)

I was traveling from Manhattan into Ft. Hamilton Parkway on the F Train. There were no F Trains running to the stop without having to transfer to two other trains, which would have their own problems and outages.

On the way back, it was even worse:

PICTURE EVIDENCE: https://imgur.com/a/p4JCaPP

EVIDENCE NOTE 1: Monitor claiming F trains would arrive

EVIDENCE NOTE 2: Sign contracting what monitor says

EVIDENCE NOTE 3: Monitor and Sign side-by-side

I used the MTA Subway Time app and it claimed F trains were on their way, these were obviously schedule data and werent changed despite the weekend-long outage. So if you used the MTA Subway Time, you'd wait forever.

I used the Google Pigeon app to report it. Given the official app had fake arrival times, best to use (or in this case, to contribute to) a crowd-sourced data source based on reality.

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Re:New York Could Become First Major U.S. City to Cap Uber a... by smogcutter on Friday July 27, 2018 @03:53PM (#17628776)

Hah, I grew up off of that stop. Used to be kind of a forgotten part of town.

Haven't lived in NYC for more than a decade, it's a shame to hear how far downhill the subway has gone.

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