MTA Not Too Keen on Technology
Last year, I signed up for the MTA’s Electronic Notification service, hoping it would advise me to stop being lazy and walk to Union Square instead of taking the L Train two stops. It had been working pretty well… until yesterday.
Here’s a picture of the inbox on my Blackberry, after receiving 33 text messages in 40 minutes from the MTA with the exact same text about a service alert on the L Train that had already expired earlier in the afternoon.
It’s a good thing I have an unlimited text plan. Sucks for the people who subscribed to this supposedly helpful service who don’t.
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February 19th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
tacony palmyra says:I haven’t had any problems w/ this service and it has been useful for me when service disruptions changed my travel plans. Of course this is only for people with unlimited texts.