NYC Transit Blogs the L Train
Of course the hipster-carting L train is the first line to get its own blog. Metro reports that the MTA is getting the L online sometime next month, and NYC Transit spokesman Paul Fleuranges assured us it would be up and running by May 1st. Start picking out your avatars, he also told us, "we plan to have a comment section and we expect and will encourage our riders to post comments and questions." A decision they may regret! As for their scribes, it looks like L line manager Greg Lombardi and MTA marketing and public affairs staff will all be generating content. And about their foray into Twitter, they tell us, "we’re going to have an online voice of NYC Transit, to promote our various programs—like MetroCard Deals, MetroCard Trips, our Email & Text Alert program" and so on. They also note they'll be using existing personnel to write the 140-character updates. Fleuranges adds, "They are trying to get me to ‘tweet’ but so far I’ve held out."
