Bring Your Own, Whiny Morons. Cheaper, Too.

Looks more like the Conformity Car. No wonder they lushed it up daily.

This "marketing executive from Westchester" (Lying, or walking cliché?) is probably one step from becoming a teabagger, his anxiety level's so high, but maybe running a website is keeping him sane. (Almost works for the editorial staff here.)

“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.”

Smoking was banned on the cars in the 1980s, much to riders’ chagrin, but the diehards fought back against any attempt to end liquor service. The most recent threat, in 2007, would have banned alcohol from being sold on the trains and on platforms at Grand Central and Pennsylvania Station, but an outcry prompted officials to reject the proposal.

Full-fledged bar cars — complete with lounge-style leather seating, cupholders and stools — have been phased out on the Long Island Rail Road (although bartending carts are occasionally wheeled onto rush-hour trains), and Metro-North trains to much of Westchester County and other points upstate no longer offer the amenity. (Even Ossining, home to Don Draper, is out of luck.)

No initiative from the Titans Of Marketing & other such useful & productive NYC activities. Figures. Less than 40 yrs. ago we were brown-bagging it on the airlines (Another liberty lost.) & these clowns can't ask for what's known in these parts as a "freeway bag?"

Not that we don't regret the loss of such amenities as bar cars. It's a grimmer world everyday, w/ the possible exception of dress codes.