I have been hearing about new train cars since I was in high school - I am 30...Meanwhile, the kicker is that the Harlem and Hudson riders pull in on-time in shiny new trains every morning, looking happy as clams....while the NH Line accounts for almost 50% of total riders, and we sit in the same cars my grandfather commuted in. And dont give me the overheard wire, AC/DC current BS - that shouldnt take ten years to figure out.

I have a few times given the old &quot;you want to charge me a peak fare for an off-peak schedule?&quot; comment to the conductors this month...with mixed responses. The most disappointing feeling every morning is when you realize that when the door lines up with where you are standing on the platform, and its a bathroom car, and you got there early for no reason at all, because you have to find somewhere else to sit (or stand) unless you want to breathe that concoction for an hour. 

So we chug on, late trains, short on cars and patience, but someone has to pay those bloated pensions and the overtime timesheet roulette that the MTA plays every day...may as well be us.