The dozen subway stations where the ads are running are:

• 14th Street-Sixth Avenue

• 14th Street-Seventh Avenue

• 14th Street-Eighth Avenue

• 23rd Street-Eighth Avenue

• Pennsylvania Station (three ads)

• 86th Street-Lexington Avenue

• 96th Street-Lexington Avenue

• 42nd Street-Sixth Avenue/Bryant Park

• 66th Street-Broadway/Lincoln Center

• 72nd Street-Central Park West

• 86th Street-Central Park West

• West Fourth Street

Police said the suspect — a black man in his 20s — held up his latest victim on the “F” train in Jamaica, Queens.

The suspect targets mostly women and in broad daylight.  His main advantage is that people are isolated because of their newspapers, ipods, cell phones, etc.  They don’t pay attention to their surroundings, which maked them easy targets.

– from 8:00AM to 8:59 AM on an average Fall day in 2007 the NYC Subway carried 388,802 passengers into the CBD on 370 trains over 22 tracks. In other words, a train carrying 1,050 people crossed into the CBD every 6 seconds.

Over this same period, the average number of passengers in a vehicle crossing any of the East River crossings was 1.20. This means that, lacking the subway, we would need to move 324,000 additional vehicles into the CBD

At best, it would take 167 inbound lanes, or 84 copies of the Queens Midtown Tunnel, to carry what the NYC Subway carries over 22 inbound tracks through 12 tunnels and 2 (partial) bridges. At worst, 200 new copies of 5th Avenue. Somewhere in the middle would be 67 West Side Highways or 76 Brooklyn Bridges. And this neglects the Long Island Railroad, Metro North, NJ Transit, and PATH systems entirely.

I think I’ll keep taking the train into the City.  No need to increase the road rage.