From Gothamist:This fake advisory was spotted at the Metropolitan G stop recently, and even though it's not real... it's all too realistic.
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- A couple of questions to ask at the meeting
- SJU student has swine flu
- Building Collapses at Lower Manhattan Construction...
- Bring us your viruses!
- Postal union decries waste of time
- Brooklyn park is a real dump
- City can't clean up Gowanus by itself
- Sears: Term limits "a very small issue"
- Hitting the delete key on illegal billboards
- Things got a little nuts in Fresh Meadows recently
- New direction for Atlas Park
- Two-tone crap
- Swine flu pandemic imminent
- Queens GOP continues to lack balls
- Queens hospitals' strange swine flu policy
- Happy birthday, Whitestone Bridge!
- Violent offenders get around Mike's gun laws
- Financial focus on Flushing
- Contamination coverup, part 2
- Bklyn builder dumps cash on Quinn & Katz
- Grace Meng expecting a baby
- Triboro Bridge hawk nest is back
- Finance commissioner quits
- Queens Crap built in Williamsburg
- St. Saviour's site excavated without permit
- Everyone knew except Bloomberg (yeah, ok!)
- Swine flu eyed in 2 U.S. deaths
- Our official apple?
- Contamination coverup
- High rises in Hallett's Cove?
- Hypocrisy at its best
- Project elevators to finally be repaired
- Pratt guy wants Gowanus development really badly
- Times visits lovely Laurelton
- Corona triangle crap
- Astoria has another blackout!
- Bloomberg clueless about plane photo op?
- Attention SFP Terriers!
- Can't wait for summer!
- Queens paper vs. illegal immigration
- Related may develop on top of park
- Poor planning leads to school seat shortage
- Flushing Airport a de facto nature preserve
- Scarano sues DOB
- We're just gluttons for punishment
- Part of Queens Blvd named after Manton
- Fire and ambulance cuts keep on coming
- Union Crap (w/o Gary Puckett)
- It's official. Prep has the swine flu.
- Woman's death is Con Ed's fault
- Daily News on Aqueduct: Build more housing!
- Water boarders continue the torture
- Rockrose split
- Too long of a wait for help
- JFK has most bird strikes
- Probing wide and deep
- 2nd Avenue subway delayed
- Contractors & unions reach agreement
- Preventing illegal halfway houses
- Missing an opportunity for nature preserve
- DOH Commissioner says swine flu outbreak "probable"
- Vandalism spree in LIC
- Great Hall getting a facelift
- Dramatic drop in building permits
- Much to say about Sean Bell Way
- Trimming the fat at the MTA
- IDT still at it
- Jamaica Bay marsh rebuilt successfully
- Maspeth & Woodside burglar family
- Bellerose craphouse getting a neighbor
- Swine flu at St. Francis Prep?
- Floral Park house explodes
- Bloomie scared of disabled Queens granny
- LaGuardia just plain sucks
- College Point a victim of "As of Mike" rule
- Lawsuit filed over toxic school
- LI Building Commissioner going to the pokey
- Bloomie's pet peeves
- Queens foreclosures & their ups & downs
- DeBlasio's saying strange things to help developer
- Council doing towing industry a favor
- Teams find out that karma's a real bitch
- VA nursing home to go condo
- Aqueduct racino bidder sued
- Newtown Creek may get Superfund status
- A BJ's for Muss
- Hiram hires Pinky's attorney
- Buying the party out from under Thompson
- Concern expressed at gas terminal hearing
- Doorman vs. fast food
- The long and the short of it
- Construction Worker Dies On Queensboro Bridge
- Report of Hootie's firing was premature
- Con Ed kicks Hootie to the curb
- NY1 gets Ozone Park construction site padlocked
- You're getting screwed either way...
- Religious opposition to Marty's $64M potato chip
- Burden to certify Maspeth-Midville-Glendale rezoning
- Boardwalk without the boards?
- Sunnyside arch restoration cost us $1/2M
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12 comments:
That was great!!!!! I would love to meet the man or woman who was behind that..........
I think it is more professionally done and informative than the real thing. Perhaps we can do some much DOB advisories to tell people what they should really know about deathtraps in progress.
Watch it, the MTA will sue for trademark logo infringement, just like the "F Train Bagels" in Brooklyn.
Our very own Turk 182. I feel like there is a secret superhero out there looking out for us!
mta is cutting big time in queens and how are all the children getting to school? dumb asses all of them that works in nyc. we need to get someone new as mayor and start firing away some of the dead wood.
Yes, this is brilliant social commentary. Almost on par with tagging a wall with wellwishing for a fellow artist or placing chairs on platforms.
The line is blurring...
These are 3 very different situations.
Placing a chair on a platform could cause injury by obstructing traffic.
Tagging a building with the building owner's permission is a matter of taste and is not illegal.
These printed satire notices are harmless as long as they do not replace legitimate notices or contain harmful instructions. No one could possibly mistake this for anything except a scorching political commentary, and the people reading it are all pedestrians, not motorists whose attention could slip and cause an accident.
Should the satire take the form of interfering with safety-related messages or intercoms, the culprits should be immediately arrested because safety issues arise.
MTA stinks! My ride home on the F is always an hour now, when it should be half an hour. But for a very good reason! Here's what they told me:
"Our records confirm that track rehabilitation work is currently in effect on the E and F lines near the Grand Avenue station from March 3, 2009. Due to the resultant track conditions, service on the E and F lines is operating with slow speed orders, 24-hours a day, 7-days a week, until December 31, 2009. However, please be aware that all track work rehabilitation projects are subject to change.
Although the actual work on the track is performed during the overnight period and weekends so that it will not pose a problem for the majority of our customers, the track is left in a "skeletonized" condition at all other times that restricts the operation of trains to 10 m.p.h. We expect an eight to ten minute delay while traveling through the area during the morning rush hour. Customers are advised to allow additional travel time. We have referred your e-mail to supervision in our Department of Subways for review."
Isn't that wonderful?
Yeah, that is bad, but I remember the 70's when no maintenance was done at all. Unfortunately our system is 100 years old, so we have to cut them a break sometimes.
On the other hand, communications are as clear as mud. Perhaps they could tell you exactly what is going on.
"Placing a chair on a platform could cause injury by obstructing traffic."
Oh, yeah. I trip over garbage cans and park benches all the time. Brilliant argument.
Try sitting on the stairs. It's a $100.00 dollar fine. Regardless of what you consider an obstruction, the MTA has its own rules and they are designed to work under the unique confines of very narrow platforms loaded with people and sight lines obstructed by crowds.
Furthermore, what you can see is neither here nor there because you are not representative of the riding public as a whole which contains the blind, nearsighted, children and the elderly.
Lighten up "anonymous #6".
That was superb...
the work of a true NYC patriot.
Nice to know there are still those out there who aren't afraid of being fined for a little act of civil disobedience!
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