<p>Hey everyone....I'm just wondering which one is better to take? The metrorail or public city bus to go from Penn Station to the Columbia campus? Which one is the cheapest, fastest, and most flexible? This will be during business hours in the middle of the week.</p>
<p>Also, for those of you who happen to know from the top of your head, what is the bus number or metrorail number/line serving Penn Station to CU? I'll be looking this up anyways, but just in case someone out there already knows this.</p>
<p>never even heard of that site until now. my parents never talked about it, friends never talked about it. they should have done better marketing. but now that you have mentioned it, letting you have an ego-rush is definitely worth it. thanks for the site!</p>
<p>in addition, one note about NYC transportation: unless you live way WAY out in the middle of nowhere, or are going from the UWS (Upper West Side) to the UES, there is no reason you should ever take a bus. They are VERY inefficient, frustratingly so. In fact, a typical new york joke is, the tourist asks the local how to get to Point A, and the local responds "well, it's a 10 minute walk, or a 20 minute bus ride". It's funny cause it's true.</p>
<p>For transport within the 5 boroughs, the subway is your friend: MTA</a> Home Page</p>
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in addition, one note about NYC transportation: unless you live way WAY out in the middle of nowhere, or are going from the UWS (Upper West Side) to the UES, there is no reason you should ever take a bus. They are VERY inefficient, frustratingly so. In fact, a typical new york joke is, the tourist asks the local how to get to Point A, and the local responds "well, it's a 10 minute walk, or a 20 minute bus ride". It's funny cause it's true
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<p>A few of my 80-90 year old relatives take the bus because they don't want to deal with the stairs going down into the subways. But they have nothing better to do than sit on a snail's-paced bus on the way to the doctor or grocery store.</p>
<p>awesome, now i'm an octogenarian for taking the bus</p>
<p>basically if u live on the east side more than a couple blocks away from 14th street or 42nd street or generally above 42nd street you have to take the bus to get crosstown</p>
<p>the bus is extremely slow and unreliable.... i once sat on a crosstown bus for half an hour just to go from 1st ave to 2nd ave...and of course the driver won't let you off halfway. needless to say i got to class VERY late that day</p>
<p>honestly, it's not even that the buses are all that bad - it's that the subway is that damn efficient, and that manhattan is essentially a walking city.</p>
<p>Unless you're taking an express train, the fastest way from Point A to Point B is still busting ass down the road on a bicycle. This is a fact I've made great use of over my years here.</p>
<p>yes the "metro" is very efficient especially when youre running full speed across the platform from the 2/3 to the 1 train and the g-damn doors close on your face and pulls off with the conductor laughing insidiously. just walk- its only 62 short blocks</p>
<p>You don't really need to drop a grand on a decent road bike. There are plenty used ones to be had on Craiglist for less that $200. </p>
<p>Bus can be hand but the only times you'll be riding them is probably on a specialty route like the M60, your subway train is stopped because of difficulties and everyone has to get off or the MTA is working on the tracks and you have to transfer to bus for a part of the route.</p>
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denz- obviously you dont have a $1,000 Trek to perform that journey of yours otherwise you wouldnt own a bike anymore....
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it's worthy of another topic, but... I do in fact have a Trek, their lower-end models (7000 or 7200), which cost $230 or $300 depending on whether you want an aluminum or hybrid frame.</p>
<p>I had two bikes stolen during my first year with them at Columbia. The first, because I didn't have a good enough lock (get the Kryptonite New York U-Locks they sell at Security for $40 - nothing else is good enough), and the second because I didn't use the lock properly (who knew that people would disassemble scaffolding on the spot, in broad daylight, to steal a bike?). Since then, I've observed the general rule, "don't do dumb things", and my bike has been fine. It just turned 4 a few months ago. Of course, I also took some spare rubber tubing at Metro Bikes and wrapped the whole frame in it, so that it looks like a $50 rusting POS bike like what delivery guys use... nobody but me knows that it's actually got good parts under all that rubber.</p>
<p>Very similar to how your mom knows I have good parts under all that rubber.</p>