Straphanger Has Money Making Ideas For MTA

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One young Brooklynite over at the Cheap Thriller blog is tired of seeing his money go down "the same black hole that sucks up all the G trains," so he's come up with a short list of alternative ideas the MTA can put into effect before draining the rest of our pockets with another fare hike. Here are a few:

Give the 3rd Ave. L stop to the homeless. IT’S. FUCKING. POINTLESS. Stop maintaining it and let the dude who has been shitting on the staircase at the Houston 1 stop shit there instead.
Start a dating service on the L between Lorimer & 1st Ave. All you have to do is take a look at Missed Connections on any given night to know that this market is juicier than a vine ripened tomato.
STOP putting up more digital displays. The only thing worse than being late for a morning meeting because there was an “earlier incident” is knowing that you still have 27min to wait.

Check out more over here, though we'd like to see these ideas presented to the MTA in a sort of ShamWow! infomercial format. And surely subway strippers can somehow be worked in, that's an untapped well of singles, right there.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on October 29, 2010 4:41 PM

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Christopher

Ads, ads, more ads. I want to see the train absolutely drenched in Coca-Cola Red and Bud Light Blue, inside and out. There should be movie posters and dentist addresses hanging from the ceilings of the cars.

And most importantly, the little TVs in the new cars should be running commercials.

Don't believe? Just go to Tokyo. They have been doing all of those things for years— and their trains are clean, fast, ALWAYS ON TIME.

dadoc

I think we should replace all MTA employees with a bunch of Japanese folks. No more slugs, slackers, whiners, goof-offs. Oh, and declare the TWU a RICO enterprise, and send them all to Japanese prisons.

Gotham Extremist

Sure, now just imagine Jap MTA workers push Ricans and Negro onto a packed train...... I say bullets start flying in seconds.

Subduction

I do not agree about the digital displays.

I *love* knowing how long a wait I'm in for, as long as it's accurate.

Guest

The 6 express and local train confounds me (in the Bronx, not Manhattan). Why does the express 6 AND the local 6 BOTH stop at 125th street and the very next stop, 138th? The express should just skip 138th, and go directly from 125 to Parkchester. If you want to get to or from 138th, just take the local. Why the extra stop for the express?

Also, the 6 should go another express stop to Westchester Square! It stops at Parkchester and goes local when there are 2 more major transport hubs (Westchester Sq and Pelham Bay).

Then, they keep letting us get onto an express 6 and then changing it to a local train once we're in the tunnel. That is fucking stupid since all the people who actually need a local didn't board this train because it was an express 28 seconds ago! So now, all the express passengers stand still as the train stops at every single stop and NOBODY gets off.

I could probably go on forever . . .

It does burn me up seeing how much of my money they waste.

Oh, and those notification signs . . . don't even get me started!