Straphangers: “Ten Plagues” of the NY Subway
by Judd WileyMay 11th, 2008, 8:52 pm
The Straphangers Campaign has listed “ten plagues” of the New York subway, i.e. the most common rider problems.
- Overcrowding
- Delays
- Long waits
- Flooding
- Summer heat
- Dirty seats
- Garbled announcements
- MetroCard mis-swipes
- Just missing a train
- Traveling with your newborn
We would like to add a few:
- The smell
- Homeless people
- Bed bugs
- Gangbangers
- Stopping in the middle of a tunnel for no reason
- Buskers
- Cockroaches
- Aggressive political activists
- Young men who sit while old ladies stand
- Feces-smelling steam vents
- Preachers
- Complete lack of customer service
- Young angry beggars
- Never knowing when a train will arrive
- Old newspapers on the floor
- Rats
- People who push their way on while others push their way off
- Drug addicts
- Thieves/pickpockets
- Feeling that the tunnel is about to collapse
- Rappers
- $2 to go 1 stop
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I’m sorry, but this picture says more than the post itself….
I wouldn’t let that loser pick his nose with my middle finger.
haha nice, but you’re forgetting people blaring their ipods at obscene volume, crazies watching dvds on their portable players with the sound jacked, and carnies turning somersaults down the aisles.
I haven’t forgotten them.
After the ultimate beat down - I wouldn’t fart up their noses to revive them.