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What would we do without our city tabloids? The NY Post reported that many subway blueprints were found on a street corner in Fort Greene. The drawings included "schematics of the Atlantic Avenue subway and Long Island Rail Road station," with "diagrams of the location of station air ducts, accessible manholes and electrical systems." What the hell? And the MTA is worried about people taking pictures of the subway? Gothamist is glad that the NY Post found the maps, because now the public knows that the MTA, like the Board of Education, must not have a shredder. Or imagine the engineer who lost the plans at the MTA meeting: "Um, I know these plans are somewhere..." Or maybe the blueprints magically rolled down the stoop steps from the secret MTA townhouse (so secret, the Post photographed it) in Brooklyn.
For some reason, maps of the subway reminded us of wandering the subway tunnels for fun.
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Further proof that the MTA is run by a bunch of nimrods.
Wasn't there a story last year of the same sort of thing happening with the WTC site last year? Trying to remember....
Pity the poor soul who just unfurled a Yogi Bear poster at some production meeting.
Enough! What is the cause for this irrational MTA-hating behavior? Fair criticism is one thing, but this is ridiculous.
The MTA is at fault or in some way deficient because some schematics were lost? "the MTA is run by a bunch of nimrods" ???
First off, there's nothing that should lead anyone to conclude that these drawings are really of any importance. The Atlantic Avenue subway station has been completed for a while. You know who probably dropped the plans? Not an engineer, and not some stupid/incompetant/evil MTA brass, but some local maintenance guy. Or maybe a janitor, whose job it was to clean the airways. It's hardly a systemic problem.
And what's with the reference to the so-called "secret MTA townhouse?" It's a ventilation shaft. Get over it. It's not disguised as a townhouse to keep it a secret, it's disguised as a townhouse as an effort to blend in, to be less obtrusive for its neighbors. Are you honestly critical of that?
This kind of MTA-bashing is mindless and harmful. The MTA makes plenty of mistakes (the photo ban, for instance), and deserves criticism, but this is not one of those times.
thank you "Nobody" for hopefully smacking some sense into these people.
"..........Fortunately, it was the whole thing was just a simple misunderstanding when architect (Mr. Mike Brady) confused his tube with a similar one that contained a school art project by son Greg."