September 24, 2008
Project Brings Seating to Subway System
Photo by Jason Eppink.
While the MTA starts taking seats out of the subway cars, the Take a Seat project is continuously building up their public furniture installation which brings in more seats to subway stations. "Perfectly functional chairs are rescued from trash piles and reassigned to stations where limited seating options leave subway patrons no choice but to stand for extended periods of time." Great idea as long as the rescued furniture isn't infested with bed bugs (like some street finds and subway benches can be)!
Take a Seat isn't affiliated with the MTA and the public is invited to bring in chairs in support of the collaborative effort to relax underground. See more seats here, where the pre-rescue images are also shown.
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It's gonna be awesome when some hoodlum just throws the chairs on the tracks thus causing numerous service delays and/or track fires. just awesome.
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Great. Something else the scumbags can use as a weapon on the platform. Or better yet something the crazies can throw onto the tracks so im even later getting home from work... nice sentiment though. It works in theory.
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Nice. Now the homeless will have another place to sleep during those cold winter months.
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I hope they're sprayed for bedbugs.
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can we get any more fucking lazy?
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All right, it's a hater parade. Ok, um, I'll go too: Damn hippies, digging in the garbage. Get a job!
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Seriously #5!
....and shut up about the "broken" escalator. They're just stairs now! Walk fatty!
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"can we get any more fucking lazy?"
Yeah, why do people ever have to sit? I know personally, I stand all day, every day. I even sleep standing up. That's the trouble with America, people wanting to sit down while doing nothing but waiting. A strong nation's people would want to stand while doing nothing!
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How about we make work stations down there so everyone can get a little work done while you're waiting for the train to go to work and go home? Every minute counts people.
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please tell me they aren't actually taking the seats of the the cars. I live in brooklyn and work on the upper east side. Do you have any idea how much it would suck to stand for an hour all the way to work. What am i paying $80 a month for? Seriously Fuck the MTA. If this happens i will just buy a car and drive to work.
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touche' # 8 and 9. touche'
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#10, the idea is seats that could be locked into an unusable "up" position during rush hours, and likely only on some cars on some lines.
Of course another possible reply to your post would be reprise #5: "can we get any more fucking lazy?"
But I suppose wanting to sit while on the train is not only defensible but expected. Sitting while waiting for a train is "fucking lazy."
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fine its not lazy and, instead, I move that the MTA must provide everyone a seat under the law
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Will they come with spikes to keep the homeless people off of them?
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There's another group, called The Sit Project, that does a similar thing for bus shelters around the city. They were featured in the Conflux Festival this year. I'm all for it...as long as the seats are bedbug free!
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This would work quite well on the G.
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For those saying that it's "fucking lazy" to want a goddamn seat, you probably have mostly sedentary jobs.
What about manual laborers or laborers in general that have to stand/walk/run all day? It fucking sucks hauling ass all day to have to spend another hour or hour-and-a-half on your feet just to get home.
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Place three folding chairs at a subway platform and it's an "installation piece". Maybe I'll replace a few urinal cakes around town and call it the fucking Mona Lisa.
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If you really called it "the fucking Mona Lisa" you'd cash out huge!
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I spent some time answering the (unexpected!) criticism I've been receiving here and in my inbox:
http://www.selfreferentialtitle.com/page.php?id=197794
Thanks for your input!