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MTA Delays Avoided with a Sharpie

As you may recall, yesterday morning, I saw this sign on a stairway at the 1st Avenue L Train station.

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Given the MTA’s track record, I was not at all surprised when two days after “2-23-08,” the stairway was still closed.

This morning, I paid that same stairway a visit, and was shocked by what I had found. Was the stairway open again? No! Of course not! But something had changed.

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Why hurry up and finish the repair work when you can just move the goalposts with the help of a magic marker?

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 at 9:47 am and is filed under Subway Stupidity. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “MTA Delays Avoided with a Sharpie”

  1. February 26th, 2008 at 10:37 am

    Sheryl says:

    I laughed out loud.

    On Thursday, I think that “2″ in the month will be changed to a “3″.

  2. February 26th, 2008 at 11:55 am

    Chris says:

    hahaha - the list of problems you can solve with a marker and duct tape grows…

  3. February 28th, 2008 at 5:58 pm

    *Red says:

    As of today, it is now up to March 7th.

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