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Rider Report Card on the F train — Brooklynian

Rider Report Card on the F train

nuclear redaction
nuclear redaction
edited November -1 in Park Slope
MTA has posted the results.

I'm inclined to call BS on the C-minus. I filed four surveys myself, none of them higher than a D.

The amazing thing about it is the number of responses they got: 13,000-plus. The next biggest response (for the A) was barely half that. But that means a few thousand people gave it A's and B's to balance out all the D's and F's it must have gotten. Who are these people??

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  • restless native
    restless native

    Subject: Re: Rider Report Card on the F train

    Nuclear Redaction wrote: Who are these people??
    Probably people who have little or no experience w/ other lines. I've spent most of my life with the F, and I can tell you that it sucks and has pretty much always sucked. ESPECIALLY nighttime and weekends.

    It's especially painful for me to have to deal with the F again now after riding the Q for a few years, which runs like a rocket 24/7.
  • willregistersoon
    willregistersoon
    Try throwing the V into your commute. 5 Fs will pass while you're waiting for that damn thing to come. The V is my new arch nemesis.
  • rtraindweller
    rtraindweller

    Subject: Re: Rider Report Card on the F train

    Restless Native wrote: [quote=Nuclear Redaction]Who are these people??
    Probably people who have little or no experience w/ other lines. I've spent most of my life with the F, and I can tell you that it sucks and has pretty much always sucked. ESPECIALLY nighttime and weekends.

    It's especially painful for me to have to deal with the F again now after riding the Q for a few years, which runs like a rocket 24/7.

    cheers to the Q! i just went from being an R/M to N rider to a straight shot Q man. and it is a very nice thing. My experience with the F went from "i don't get what everyone's talking about" to "this train makes me wanna put forks in my knees" in the course of two weeks when I first moved to Brooklyn.
  • benyankee
    benyankee
    Actually, those report cards were released last week. Today's Report Cards are the V and R lines. But that's not really the point.

    Those folks giving the F higher marks live in Queens where the trains run smoothly and on the express lines. It doesn't get bad until it gets to Brooklyn.
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    i wonder how they averaged those grades.

    an F could count as anything from a 0 to a 59. if they counted every F as a 50, it wouldn't take too many pollyannas to inflate the average grade.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    sweet tea wrote: i wonder how they averaged those grades.

    an F could count as anything from a 0 to a 59. if they counted every F as a 50, it wouldn't take too many pollyannas to inflate the average grade.
    That's assuming they converted to a percent score. If they did the usual college method (a=4.0, b=3.0, c=2.0, d=1.0, f=0, with +=+0.3 and -=-0.3), then they could just average the grades.
  • caaahyoko
    caaahyoko
    For the life of me I can't find the R report card...Could someone post a link?
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    Carnivore wrote: [quote=sweet tea]i wonder how they averaged those grades.

    an F could count as anything from a 0 to a 59. if they counted every F as a 50, it wouldn't take too many pollyannas to inflate the average grade.
    That's assuming they converted to a percent score. If they did the usual college method (a=4.0, b=3.0, c=2.0, d=1.0, f=0, with +=+0.3 and -=-0.3), then they could just average the grades.

    fair enough, but i wouldn't want to bet serious money that the mta would be that sensible, would you? :wink:
  • baby fishmouth
    baby fishmouth
    I lived in Queens for four years, and the F is not any better there. In fact, it's worse. I used to get on at the fourth stop in the morning and I never, ever got a seat. It's packed the entire way in. I usually get a seat on the F coming from Park Slope although lately, that's been changing. I timed it the other morning - had to wait 10 minutes for a train, it was too packed to get on, the next packed train came about 8 minutes later. I think I got a seat at Broadway-Lafayette.
  • yoda
    yoda
    I hate the F - I've ridden every train everywhere in the city. I like the N - or any of the BMT expresses (I think the Q but that used to be an IND train). Anyway the F is slow, packed always late or skipping stops.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    yoda wrote: I think the Q but that used to be an IND train.
    Sort of. Although what they call the Q now is actually what used to be called the D, an IND train, the Q was originally a BMT train. And I'm pretty sure that that section of track was BMT track, even when the IND D train ran on it. The M used to also run on that line.

    Here's a BMT subway map from 1924 (from this awesome website):
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  • jennitrixie
    jennitrixie
    I think some of the grade inflation also comes from the bullshit categories on the report card. What do I give a shit about "scratchitti" when I can't even get *on* the fucking train in the morning and it hardly runs at night?
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