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Today must have been signage swap out day.
The MTA SubTalk posters have a few newbies.
“Litter gets on the tracks and catches FIRE, and that causes train delays that make you late aside from making trains and stations untidy because a little litter goes a long way.”
That’s the sign copy. First off, I’m no [...]

“Always Worth It” is the slogan on a new batch of Bud Light ads that just hit the system.
Umm…no. Sorry, not “always worth it.” As a matter of fact, a BL is hardly worth it when you are handed on for free.
The photo above is one of the older campaigns.  The new one has the [...]

OMG.  I don’t even know where to begin to describe my morning commute today.  It was so stressful, that I couldn’t even write about as I was witnessing it.  Not to mention, it was so crowded that I could barely move my arms.  If I had managed to pull my BlackBerry out to write, I [...]

Daniel Boggs, 42, was struck by a train near 59th Street/Columbus Circle when he was working on the tracks. It was about 11:30pm when a downtown 3 train struck Boggs who was working on placing “flagging lanterns.”
The lanterns are designed to warn train operators that workers are on the tracks. I guess it [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, may we present the latest MTA employee, the TBM.  I wonder if it’s in the union?
Anyway, this machine is the workhorse of subway tunnel system.  It’s going to do most of the Second Ave tunnel digging.  They can even be fitted to lay the concrete roof structure and tracks!  So they can [...]

Jigga?  Yeeeeeah….ok.  There’s no way this would ever happen.

Have you seen the new (sorta) KICK map for the subway. It’s a new subway map concept by a design firm that thinks they have a better way to demonstrate how the subway lines run.

So you get the basic idea by seeing the side by side comparison above. The KICK map has a [...]

Just when I thought I’ve seen everything, I see something new.  Here’s the setup…
I’m walking down the stairs to the subway.  Already I can see that there’s a ton of a people down there for some reason.  The crowd is really thick.  Keep in mind, this is a major transfer hub, so it has tons [...]