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The MTA is sick and tired of your careless newspaper disposal, so they made a mock newspaper to school you in changing your ways! WNBC reports on the Subway Gazette, which outlines the hot topics underground, including how your trash can lead to subway delays.
Once on the tracks, trash can help spark track fires or clog drains along the roadbed and that can lead to flooding. Smoke conditions and flooding lead to delays in train service and, in the case of fires, they can be extremely dangerous.The Gazette is sort of like the Smokey the Bear of the subway system! But why is the MTA only taking such action to inform straphangers now? Well, in the last four years the amount of trash removed from the system has risen 17% (that's a whopping 15,300 tons to 17,862 tons). Even though NYC Transit recycles "about 50 percent of everything our customers throw away" (a number they're working to raise) you could do your part by tossing your Times, Post, Daily News, amNewYork or Metro (and Subway Gazette!) in the recycling bin.Fire and smoke conditions along the track and in stations have been a leading cause of subway delays for several years, and 2007 was no different, records show. In 2007, 4,881 trains were delayed as a result of fire and/or smoke conditions. That’s up from 2006 when fire and/or smoke conditions caused 3,484 delayed trains. Compared with 2003 when these conditions delayed 2,826 trains, those delays have risen by 73 percent.
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Well, I don't know about everyone else's station, but I know at mine I have to walk almost to the end of it until I get to a trash can. Maybe if there were more people wouldn't be so tempted to throw their junk onto the tracks.
It reminds me of The Subway Sun ads they has in the 1940s until the 1960s. I guess they didn't want to use the the name again because people might get it confused with The New York Sun.
where, exactly, are we supposed to recycle our newspapers on the platform? why don't they have those bins for newspapers like they do for the MetroNorth?
this actually makes me want to dispose of my entire recycling bin on the tracks on my way home tonight. the L train this AM was so completely out of hand that I couldn't breathe because i was being half suffocated by bodies. A woman passed out. Use the money you spent to publish this gay ass GAZETTE and put it towards getting the signals in order douches!
there are barely two trash cans on the platforms and usually, in the busier stations, they're overflowing.
Please.... You can put trash cans up and down the station platforms and people would still throw shit on to the tracks. New Yorkers generally are SLOBS.
They've actually had posters about this subject for several years now. But I guess most people ignore them.
I wish they had paper recycling bins on the platforms, but your newspaper doesn't weigh too much for you to take it with you to the office and toss it in the recycling there.
I would love to used a recycling bin but on my routes I've never seen any.
Newspapers get recycled anyway, just leave it on your seat as you exit, another passenger will pick it up.
The worst are the people who chuck the paper, food, chicken bones, etc. under the seat on which they're sitting. Who the f raised these people? I give the stinkeye to anyone I see doing this, but have yet to say "Excuse me, you dropped something under your seat."
you all are just full of excuses
pathetic
The MTA should report the amount of trash they collected in a given week/month/whatever, and following each time interval, penalize all users of the system with a fee surcharge based on how much trash was collected.
I'll bet that people would be more careful with their trash then.
Yes, the MTA needs to provide more recycling and trash receptacles.
And yes, the MTA would probably lie about how much trash they collected just to charge riders more...and still claim a budget deficit.
i hope the MTA keeps track of how many fires and floods are caused by these discarded Gazettes.
I like to put my used Daily News on the edge of the trash can and then take a few steps away and see who picks it up. It's usually some older guy who will circle like a shark once or twice, then glance around and grab it and walk halfway down the platform before he opens it and starts reading.
People complain about our system being way dirtier than London's; one reason for that is because people in London and other cities don't feel like they have the right to leave their garbage behind when they get off the train/platform.
Another reason is because other systems shut down at night, providing better opportunities for system cleanup. (We tend to take 24/7 service for granted.)
Another reason is because our fares are so cheap, despite 24/7 service and a flat fare to get anywhere in the system. I think people are more willing to accept the fact that the system is dirty if they only pay $2 to use it. People would be less willing to leave a mess behind if fare were as high as they are in London, I think.
New Yorkers are absolutely slobs. I can't tell you the number of people I see in a week who throw their trash on the tracks, or leave it lying in cars, or similar. It's digusting and there's no excuse for it beyond laziness. Walk to a friggin trash can, and if that one's full, HOLD ON TO YOUR SHIT until you find an appropriate place to dispose of it.
Personally, I think it should be illegal for AM New York and the other one (forget the name) to give away their free shit at the subway entrances -- partially because of these problems and partially because they slow things down, get in the way, and are generally annoying as hell.
@ pelham123:
According to the article, the Gazette is a "car card" or poster, not an actual newspaper to be distributed to passengers.
#4 - The L train is crowded because there is an excessive amount of hood snatching going on along that line, the MTA can only do so much. There is a whole city to consider, not just crybaby honkies moving out to bushwick.
There are usually a bunch of trash cans all over the platform. There is not one on either side like you are claiming. Stop being lazy and walk 20 feet to a trash can. Though I feel like if you leave a paper on the seat someone else might want to read it.
It really pisses me off when I see people throw garbage in the tracks. THE TRACKS ARE NOT A GARBAGE CAN AND PEOPLE WORK DOWN THERE. How would you like it if I went to your job and threw garbage in your work area?
One man's hood snatching is another man's slumming.
Who the f raised these people?
New Yorkers.
@dbc:
well that'll certainly reduce any potential for irony.
The day they stop playing those damned endless "rules of the subway" recordings on the L is the day I stop deliberately littering on the train.
and once again, drchadwick gets the prize for being the being the biggest self-absorbed, narcissistic, a**hole commenter on the blog. Who are you hurting, drchadwick, by leaving your trash? not the MTA - only your fellow transit users. Grow up.
I'm pretty sure if the MTA stopped people distributing this trash in their stations they wouldn't have to clear it up. I'm tired of trying to get out of crowded stations at rush hour only to find these a-holes blocking the exists handing out this shit.
But then MTA is still waiting for someone to invent the map, so we can see where the f-ing train is going.
I've held onto empty candy wrappers and beverage bottles for miles on end until I found proper means of disposal, but people here whine about having to walk to the end of a platform. What a bunch of babies.
I've seen seated subway riders toss stuff out the doors when they open at a subway stop. I've watched people on the platform routinely toss stuff onto the tracks. For that matter, I've watched them toss stuff onto the sidewalk as they walk along, too -- they don't treat the subway any better than they treat their sidewalks. It's repulsive.
New Yorkers need an education. This is our city, why shit on it that way? They should treat the streets and subway the way they treat their own homes. But then, maybe that's how they treat their homes, too. Who knows!
Litter is bad, but come on does the MTA make any effort to really keep stations clean? They keep them (generally) clean enough to function but they're still filthy grimey rusty drippy places.