Feb
18
A-B-C with the MTA
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Where: The passageway from the 4/5/6 at Grand Central Terminal to the 42nd St. Shuttle.
What: A misspelling of Madison Ave. captured via iPhone by SAS reader Nick M.
It’s been a rough week for the MTA’s signs and its general overall spelling ability. Last week, New York City Transit came under fire for a 70-year-old typo at Broadway along the IND Crosstown line. Since then, savvy straphangers have noticed misspellings everywhere. My favorite is the one about Queeens. Such are the ways of the Internet.
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These have me simultaneously ROFL and somewhat embarrassed for my city at the incompetency on display. You can be sure cities like London or Paris that take their transportation more seriously don’t let these things slip through, or if they do, fix them right away. I know as New Yorkers we’re supposed to take some sort of perverse pride in the dysfunction that we all put up with on a daily basis, but this is just too much.
This makes me feel hopeful about my new venture as a freelance proofreader. Clearly the MTA needs my services.
Your journalistic clout is definitely on the rise, Ben. It was fixed as of this morning!
These picayune issues that people have been finding are made even more trivial when you think of the more severe inaccuracies of signage in the system. I recently re-discovered this 2002 Signage Report by the New York City Transit Riders Council.