January 13, 2007
THE TRAINS MAY NOT RUN ON TIME , BUT . . .
At least you'll know how long you have to wait before the next one rolls into the station. One of the most frustrating things about riding the subway is waiting an indeterminate amount of time for the next train to arrive. This causes stressful repetitive behavior among transit riders, namely the Lean-and-Peek, which involves a person steping to the edge of the platform, leaning out as far as is safe and often further, and gazing down the tunnel for any indication that a train might be coming. Repetitive Lean-and-Peak Syndrome is a malady I myself suffer from.
New overhead displays could cure this debilitating condition. The picture above is of a pilot program being deployed on the L Train line. Overhead displays communicate how long it will be before the next two trains arrive at your station. This is still in the evaluation stage, so we also get messages like this:
Interesting sentence structure there. I would have said " . . .times may not be accurate" or " . . .times may be inaccurate." " . . .be not accurate" sounds like something a non-native English speaker would write. Actually, this picture that I found linked to over at Gothamist displays a more tongue-friendly version of the same message. I would've thought the electronic messages would be uniform throughout the system, but maybe phraseology is one of the things the MTA is testing.
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