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This station is so complex! Times Square Station is also connected to the 42 St Bryant Park & 5th Av Stations via a tunnel open from 6AM - 11:59PM too, making it possible to transfer to the BDFM trains and walk to the next 7 Train station entirely underground!
Happy middle of the week Thea 😃 In the 1980's I used to take the bus to the bus terminal and walk that long underground walk to the #7 train to Shea Stadium. I didn't mind the vendors and the music 🎶 entertainment. If I really liked the tune they played I would drop a dollar or two off to them. Have a great day Thea 😎👍
I like that you’re showing the pretty spots and all, but Imma need you to go to 125th & Lexington Av for the next video. Show the people what’s REALLY going on in the trenches 😂
The Times Square station grew even larger with the addition of the walkway between the 42nd Bryant Park station and the Times Square shuttle station. You can now walk from 5th Ave all the way to 8th ave underground without leaving the system.
The buskers and musicians are some of the most talented in the world. At rush hour when I worked in NYC, I always carried extra change and dollar bills just for them. As for vendors, when it rains, the guys who sold umbrellas for 5 and 10 bucks were indispensable on a day when a sudden downpour occurred. I also got my best scarves in winter from vendors in and out of the subway. Usually they lasted a whole winter season for almost no money at all.
Kudos for showing both the good and bad of this station. Times Square is so packed above ground, that sometimes I’ll pay the subway fare just as a means to walk crosstown to avoid the hordes
4:56 vendors: don't mind them, I just won't buy stuff outside of a package because the subway station air is probably filthy Buskers: more positive, I even saw an Erhu player in a Lower Manhattan station once!
With how vast this station is and how many connections it has, this should be better organized and an attraction in itself, its got the right pieces but they need to put them together.
0:49 At Park street station in Boston, The Green and Red lines connect. But there is a concourse That connects to Downtown Crossing On the Red and Orange Lines so at the Green Line platform at Park Street, You see signs for the Orange Line. Like at Times Square station.
Yeah Toronto has a "station that's actually 2 stations". Spadina can /technically/ be called an interchange station but you have to use a ped tunnel to get to your transfer. people just use the next station which is actually considered an interchange station I was watching Paige Saunders video you were in about Toronto's wayfinding and i thought yeah, my city's wayfinding could be better for new riders. I didn't get lost much on the Hong Kong MTR as a tourist so it's def achievable but looking at the NYC subway wayfinding...uhhh....I guess ours could be worse lol
Broken escalators are a big problem of the Subway system. It makes me wonder if they could be better engineered and if it would be better to totally replace them with new designs instead of having broken escalators like 20% of the time(sometimes more often than that).
Brave woman to do a vid at rush hour and risk the wrath of others thinking you are slowing them down. 😅 People from out of town really have to experience the lockstep surge of people fast walking to get the true experience.
vendors, performers, artists, they're all okay with me, especially if they stick to high traffic areas like times square station. i even like the showtime guys even though that's not a popular take lol just a big fan of street calisthenics
You mentioned the problem with turnstiles, should New Yark adapt London-style faregates, at least for some "lanes"? With those, only one-way traffic is possible. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zIGh8jxIjWE.html to get an idea (there are two sets of "flaps", so a gate can be reversed according to passenger flow.
As a tourist I find that station a bit confusing. I prefer to just stay away from that area all together, it is overwhelming how much is going on there.
Elevators and escalators are useless if they're not working. Broken people movers of any sort fustrate me the most of any travel circumstance. It's like a double inconvenience.
