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This morning's commute is getting messier. A tipster called in this info from the road: 1010 Wins reports a 90 minute backup at the GW Bridge, one hour backup at the Lincoln Tunnel, flooding at the Watsessing Train Station, and massive subway system delays in the Big Apple. Tell us what your Plan B is for today...
Update: NY city subway system services are suspended.
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Comments (21)
As I mentioned in the other thread, avoid 280 like the plague and head down Grove. Was not too bad, considering. Traffic was a little pokey but the tunnel is now open. Subways are still iffy but it's not raining any longer so you can walk.
Can you please call my boss and tell him its Baristanet Offical work from home day? LOL
I'm lucky I moved from Montclair to Bloomfield recently so I take the light rail to nwk penn to NY penn instead of the Montclair-Boonton line. I made it into work less than 1/2 hour later than usual since the trains from nwk to NY were slow moving.
Agreed! It's official.
BTW - I'd be glad send your bosses an e-mail from my "conductor@clevercommute.com" e-mail address!
Here's my morning. I logged on to check my email, only to see about a thousand messages from Conductor Josh's acolytes. Then got a message from the office manager (I won't call him boss) that he's abandoned his train from CT and will work from home. That was enough for me. I finished up answering email at a liesurely pace, then got out the yoga mat and did a half hour of poses, including a head stand (during which the cleaner arrived and did a double take--I suppose in her native Romania there aren't many middle aged men with gigantic beer bellies and boxer shorts who invert themselves). I'm now dressed for work in my dung-stained gardening shorts and my Ohio State Buckeyes t-shirt. Bring it on, baby!
I got in -- took me about 45 minutes...
Oh, great, thanks a lot, Liz. Really appreciate your puncturing the Myth of the Nearly Impossible Commute. It's people like you who ruin it for the rest of us.
/mental image
middle aged man with gigantic beer belly and boxer shorts inverting himself
Thanks for that. A very bad day is now truly horrid.
Don't forget the "dung-stained gardening shorts." I don't even want to know to whose dung he's referring. Eeew.
There was nothing to do besides forge on ahead. I was on the PATH long enough to listen to almost all of Beethoven's 9th. Firmly, but dejectedly, I resolved to then walk from Chelsea, to my office on the Upper East Side. Fortunately, I had my Under Armour moisture-wicking shirt with me, out of which I was able to wring the perspiration every 10 blocks or so.
3 hours and 10 minutes to go 7 miles this morning. My goal was to get to the corner of Varick and Hudson. Ended up dropping my wife off at Newark Penn and then worked out my Union office.
Did they move up Thanksgiving?
When I turned on the news this morning and heard *every* road I take to work mentioned in the traffic alert, that told me it was a "Work From Home Day". I'm just thrilled that the storm didn't knock out my internet connection.
glen ridge jittney and Roy took us to grove street light rail station, then to penn station - Newark. then to Penn Station which was a gigantic mess.
got in at work 30 mn late.
"Work!"
-- Maynard G. Krebs
Call it fertilizer, Miss M.
Lighten up, spicoli, and look on the bright side. At least I didn't describe the matted hair on my neck, my skin discoloration and my goiter-swollen ankles! And be grateful I didn't post my most recent colonoscopy pix (though those tubes are byootiful, polyps and all).
Little-known marsupial anatomy fact: the thyroid is located in the ankles!?
(2 Teachers in this household)
Overheard a conversation at blusestone by some businessee dressed guys.... I turned to my teacher-wife, I guess there was a problem getting to work today.... That's too bad....
Good luck getting home y'all (and I hope this is cleared up before our trek to Shea tomorrow afternoon)>
I enjoy working from home everyday, I love working for Baristanet.
Oops, I meant gout, not goiter. On the other hand, I was inverted at the time...
You're sounding more attractive all the time, Walleroo. :-)
Commuting to Jersey City this morning was a mess since the trains weren't running and many hysterical trainsfolk boarded the buses. The trainfolk were damp, noisy and fearful of walking from Broad and Market in Newark to Penn Station--the City Subway was closed for a while.
Not wanting to deal with the whining crowds, I got off the bus at the City Subway on Bloomfield Ave. It opened and I got to work less than 20 minutes late---my students waited, of course.