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If one ever wondered if there was a rhyme or reason to where those WET PAINT signs show up on subway pillars, the Daily News gives some idea. The paper learned that the MTA made sure to paint the pillars at three major station hubs right before politicians used them as locations for press conferences.
"I gotta figure a way to get the governor to my station in Brooklyn," quipped Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign, a rider advocacy group. "It needs an overhaul."Other riders were not as good-humored about the coincidence of station overhauls and the appearance of politicians, wishing that they'd keep stations clean all the time or just save the money on paint and not raise fares.
(AINT WET, by Triborough at flickr)
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I feel bad for all the foreign people who don't speak english and have to learn the hard way what WET PAINT means. That's happened to me in europe with plenty of other languages.
ArghhH! This reminds me of Union Square a couple of mornings ago during rush hour. Someone had ripped off the wet paint sign from a post and i leaned up against it waiting for a train. Who decided to paint the pillars during rush hour? F-ing brilliant MTA. Raise my unlimited card price and ruin my jacket.
ArghhH! This reminds me of Union Square a couple of mornings ago during rush hour. Someone had ripped off the wet paint sign from a post and i leaned up against it waiting for a train. Who decided to paint the pillars during rush hour? F-ing brilliant MTA. Raise my unlimited card price and ruin my jacket.
Last year the wet paint signs on the Union Sq. 'L' platform were all place on one side of the beams, all of them facing the same way- away from the steps leading on to the platform!
Meanwhile, the tile walls that we have to look at every day are filthier than the men's room at the Port Authority....
On the subject of the MTA ruining clothes, I finally figured out why some of my pants have tiny bleach stains near the bottom: when they wash the platforms with bleach and you unknowingly walk through immediately afterwards, the water splashes on your pant legs.
Sometimes I see the wet paint signs or the ripped and replaced version seen above where the paint appears to be quite dry and possibly not even painted. Perhaps it is some sort of thing to make it look like they are actually doing something.
If it wasn't for some new signs, a bullet proof token booth and all the things that go with the MetroCard, there would be some stations, most likely haven't been touched since they opened. Just look at the G train.
I had no idea that the wet paint signs meant that they had painted.
Toby is correct. Where I live, on the F train in Brooklyn, the wet paint signs go up to just to create the appearance of work performed. There was never any painting. The MTA is just another gang.