Good morning on this damp Friday.

With our subways in crisis, advocates are trying to ratchet up political pressure to fix the system by highlighting the most nightmarish journeys.

The Riders Alliance’s new “Worst Commute of the Week” award drew these submissions from passengers:

• A broken elevator at Herald Square and another at Penn Station meant that Maggie Clarke, 64, a busker from Inwood, had to lug 50 pounds of music equipment up and down an extra four flights of stairs. “Considering the damage the system is doing to my person,” she said, “I need to just suck it up and take a cab.”

• John Rakis, 65, a criminal justice consultant, waited 45 minutes for a southbound R train at City Hall, gave up, caught a northbound R to Canal Street to switch trains, and waited another 35 minutes. At one point he thought to himself, “I left work an hour and a half ago and I’m further away than when I started.”

• After a 25-minute wait, Alisa Roost, 46, a professor at CUNY, squeezed onto an uptown A train, whereupon “a laundry cart ran over my feet and someone hit my 13-month old son in the head with his bag.”