Comments on: NYC Transit unveils an anti-graffiti/advertising pilot program

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:45:03 +0000

You people love graffiti and you know it. Capitalist ads for soda that causes diabetes, and endorses the mistreatment of migrant workers in third world countries? Or colorful names that for some reason make close minded working people feel like they are getting mugged in one of the lowest crime rates of the modern era in New York. You didn’t want graffiti so you got scratchitti instead. Take responsibility to tax paying slaves. And yes I pay taxes as well.

By: NYC Transit: Subway graffiti down 46 percent « WHATYOUWRITE.COM

NYC Transit: Subway graffiti down 46 percent « WHATYOUWRITE.COM — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:59:02 +0000

[...] glass windows — with less success. As Donohue reminds us, Transit unveiled a pilot program of scratch-resistant ads late last year. That program, according to Transit spokesman Paul Fleuranges, is too expensive to [...]

By: Eli

Eli — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:48:41 +0000

I’ve seen one of these trains from the outside and could not see in at all.

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Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:22:59 +0000

[...] revenue from every available source, the agency has started to sell open space. They have sold the windows, the turnstiles and the outside walls of entire subway cars. Now, PETA, of all groups, is calling [...]

By: cmdrtebok

cmdrtebok — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:06:32 +0000

I just hope they dont put the bill boards back into grand central. that was the worst.

By: Scott E

Scott E — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:02:13 +0000

Scratchiti was “invented” because of the crackdown on graffiti (i.e. surfaces that are easily cleanable and that ink/paint doesn’t stick to). These ads may reduce scratchiti, but won’t it just invite “traditional” graffiti?

I’m not sure which side of the windows the decals are applied to, or whether ads are displayed on both sides, but I can already see someone with a black marker scribbling acne on Dr. Zizmor, or making Mike Rowe’s Dirty Jobs look even dirtier. Remember the old Coca-Cola slogan from two decades ago: Coke is It!? Lots of gratuitous “SH”’s made their way on those billboards.

By: Kid Twist

Kid Twist — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:03:56 +0000

Who needs to see out the windows anyway? You can just rely on the crystal-clear PA announcements to tell you where you are.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:35:17 +0000

I can see a pole and at least three seats from that grainy photo alone…

By: Chemster

Chemster — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:36:24 +0000

I agree this is a bad idea for the subway in so many ways. I want to be able to see *into* a car before I get on, and I am sure the ads make it harder to see *out* of the subway once someone’s on the train.

By: Benjamin Kabak

Benjamin Kabak — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:25:41 +0000

Is it on every window in the car then? Because if so, then it should go if no one can see in.