MTA Update

w. 145th Street -- A line, 1/7/09, about 2 pm or thereabouts...the usual confusion...people are lining the stair wall, standing on the middle stair platform to be able to get the next express....a C train pulls in on the upstairs downtown local track. No announcement. A B train pulls into the station on the downstairs track. No announcement. Some race down the stairs thinking it is an express. Other more seasoned passengers with better ears to determine where the train is arriving wait to catch a glimpse BEFORE they rush downstairs. About 4-5 minutes later, finally, an A pulls into the station on the upstairs express track. I yell out, "It's an A." Five people rush from the stair well to get teh train. No announcements except to warn us that the MTA has the right to search our bags.