The New Policy In The Subway

[cuteasaurus]

Is this the Baltimore Lightrail or the DC Metro? Because you used to have to show ID to get onto the Lightrail, but then they lost alot of their personnel funding so that mostly stopped, as did checking tokens. Does the Lightrail even still run on tokens?

The news I had heard was about the Baltimore metro system. Honestly, I can't remember if it included the light rail, but there was a focus on the Baltimore subway (small line that it is). I have no idea if the lightrail runs on tokens since I've never used it. I'm also not sure if this ID thing will actually happen...it sounded like it, but I haven't seen any difference, so we'll see.

 

[Felon]

There's a no-food/no-drink policy here on Atlanta's MARTA system. I'm glad for it. Nothing unethical about having such rules or fining people for breaking them. Those labeling it as such haven't a leg to stand on--I found the whole "dying of thirst" arguement particularly amusing. Ah yes, I just see some poor dessicated husk being carried off the subway in a huge ashtray.

In South Korea I spent a couple of years riding a subway system where people sat around on the subway drinking their rice wines. Saturday night's you get to play "doge-the-puke-puddle". The damnedest thing was, usually the guy puking his guts didn't elicit disgust or revulsion as often as it did empathy. Guy sitting next to him would pat the on the back as he chundered all over the floor. I'm sitting there wondering what was going through their heads--this guy doesn't have a terminal disease, after all.

Now, back to Atlanta--I don't know about folks in other cities, but I would really love to see a "no-raving-lunatics" law enforced. Forget the guy with the Diet Coke, how about the racist freak screaming his head off incoherently and shaking his bible in people's faces?

 

[Bartmanhomer]

I feel like that I'm going to write a letter to Mayor Bloomberg.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

I feel like that I'm going to write a letter to Mayor Bloomberg.

If it'd do any good, go for it. Or write the paper.