Don't take this away from them.
Listen up. Something serious is going on. I’m not talking about Goldman v. the SEC and I’m not talking about Obama’s scheduled hate speech. I’m talking about the one thing that makes the lives of those of you slogging back to Connecticut each day after what was probably a miserable twelve hours on the job worth living– I’m talking about the right to get smashed during the commute. You fought the proposed ban on Happy Hour on Wheels a few years back and you won. And now, due to the “recession,” officials are saying that new trains may not included a place to booze it up, claiming that more seats are a bigger priority than the bar car, or something like that (I stopped paying attention because I was so seething mad, for you). I know it’s wrong, you know it’s wrong, and eventually it’s gonna kill a few people, either due a stress-related heart attack, or by sucking out their will to live.
“It raises my anxiety level,” said Tom Skinner, a marketing executive from Westport and proprietor of BarCar.com, a Web site devoted to the steel-wheeled saloon. “There’s always people trying to scuttle the bar cars. It’s just a fact of life.” [...] “The commute is so bad as it is,” explained Paul Hornung, a financial worker, as he sipped a Stella Artois. “This is the one thing you can look forward to.”
whats next, no lavatories?
disgusted….
They got rid of these on the Harlem Line a while ago, a real fucking shame. Those bar cars must be the only way to cope with the fact that you’re going home to Connecticut on a train that’s older than sin.
FUCK!
Tim “Next Stop, Larchmont” Geithner
um..they make insane revenue off of the bar car, why get rid of it?
Who cares? The bar car doesn’t sell 40 oz. anyway.
@1 they’ll take away our concealed handguns. It’s a slippery slope. Welcome to the Nanny State.
That pic is great. She looks so comfortable to be with them.
I told those fucks down at the league office!
A bit irrelevant, but don’t forget that many of us reverse commute to CT everyday, which is, in my opinion, worse.
Bess, you remember Greenwich, don’t you?
http://financetrends.blogspot.com/2006/12/dealbreaker-goes-to-connecticut.html
bar car! I take the LIRR they got rid of those years ago…..
I hope someone today gets to ask Obama why no “stimulus” moneys were allocated to save the booze trains.
@8 – Agreed.
It looks like he’s robbing her with his creepy hand pistol…she’s defiantly holding her ground though, clutching to her purse for dear life.
As long as I can get my Fosters oil can at GCS before the 5:38 I really don’t care if they get rid of them.
@ 9 – Whose in charge of scheduling?
Burkhalter
Wait, Stella? Anyone who drinks anything besides a tall-boy on Metro North doesn’t matter.
Metro-North officials are worried that possibly some dipshit, over-served, London-based petroleum traders might kill someone defending a girl on the train?
“You call those tits?!”
-Guy in blue shirt
Who wants those fucking drunken louts that stink of booze near you anyway? I want to ride home in peace. Good riddance. What next, complaining about not being able to smoke?
-CT denizen that takes the Harlem line.
Oh here we go… tough to find:
http://dealbreaker.com/2006/09/pardon-me-but-might-i-suggest-greenwich-for-those-whove-given-up-all-hope/
And Carney’s less-funny article:
http://dealbreaker.com/2007/01/the-last-of-the-bar-cars/
Guy in blue shirt: Transco Zone 6 basis trader. Guy in striped shirt: Risk Quant for Six Flags. Chick: Headhunter trying to fill position in London for a petroleum trader who is a heavy hitter”.
@14, that fucking kraut!
Simple solution: Beamers Bar Car. Guaranteed money maker.
when did the pillsbury dough boy get a blue shirt?
This is bullshit, as a commuter from CT and an avid alcoholic I’m truly outraged that they would even consider this. I’ve seen guys down 6 tall boys in their 40 minute commute, how else could they drive home and face their money grubbing trophy wives?
@18: examine your locomotives
WAIT WAIT WAIT – Paul Hornung still has to work? Didnt the Packers give him any kind of pension after he won them two Super Bowls?
EASY – there was a report this morning out from Metro North that they’re NOT getting rid of the BAR CARS
Report said that what they’ll be doing is hooking them to the new cars (whenever)
Anyway it’s not like they’re getting rid of all the shit cars
For those NH Line commuters out there: http://www.wheresthebarcar.com/
Yo @18!!!!
WTF? Here’s a hint….if you don’t like drunks then don’t sit in the bar car, choose one of the other 10 cars….Genius!
Pull on my finger Honey!!
Christ, she’s putting the death grip on that purse
comment 4 is awesome.
For me travelling through Penn Station and getting on the LIRR is a miserable enough existance. Adding booze to the equation of my evening commute would send me a nosedive of existential self-pity.
@28 Obviously reading comprehension is a problem for you. Last time I looked there are no booze cars on the Harlem line. Doesn’t stop loud drunken idiots from starting up a party in the other carriages, though.
http://irs.gov/blowagoat
As a regular on the Harlem line, my advice is to grab two tall boy Budweisers from the vendors at the ramp, 4 packets of beer nuts, and have a great ride, NOT talking to all the other fat slobs.
@9
I believe you meant Krauts
Fellow commuters…
“Never let the facts get in the way of a good story”.
This old newsroom mantra apparently was the rule when the NY Times yesterday ignored the facts and presented the headline… “One for the Road? Bar Cars May Face a Last Call”
Though three members of the CT Rail Commuter Council worked with reporter Michael Grynbaum to get the story right, he ignored the facts in favor of a sexier story.
The reporter implied that when the new M8 cars arrive, the 8 existing bar cars would be replaced. Not so! The 8 bar cars we have all have undergone recent rehab’s and can run for 10 – 15 more years.
He also implied that “the recession” might force a rethinking of plans to order new bar cars.
The Commuter Council, meeting last night, was reassured by both Metro-North and CT DOT that there are no plans to eliminate bar cars on Connecticut trains. CDOT also told the Council they would share design concepts with us for new M8 bar cars, currently under bid from Kawasaki.
The issue of continued if not improved bar car service has been a priority of the Commuter Council for the 25 years of its existence. We will continue that advocacy… and seek a correction from the NY Times for its sloppy reporting.
“Cheers”!
Jim Cameron, Chairman
CT Metro-North Rail Commuter Council
“Advocates for better rail services in CT”
Web: http://www.trainweb.org/ct
The Chinaman is not the issue here dude…
i’ve come to fix the cable
@10 what makes you think I forgot?
@37,,,the rug,,it really tied the room together
@Bess- I primarily just wanted you to briefly reminisce about how bad it was going to Connecticut. Accomplished.
41=20=10
=42
=Drunk. Thanks, Bar Car.
Always nice to have the bar cars on the train but as long as they continue to sell the tall boys on the platform in Grand Central for $2.75 each (cheapest beers in NYC and 2 work nicely for the 50 minute ride), I’m willing to overlook the fact that I’m riding in a 30+ year old urinal that they call a passenger car, back to CT.
– Fixed Income
(to the tune of “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”
We’re taking the 5:02 tonight,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
We’re all lit up like a neon light
Hurrah! Hurrah!
We’re on the train with the special car,
The one that features a stand-up bar
And we’ll feel no pain when
We take the 5:02!
in reality they should have 2 pushcarts working up and down the aisles with young college hotties (m/f) selling beer. now THAT would work fine. you could also purchse from them on the platform while the t
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