Dumbest MTA Ad In Subway History

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PkerUNO says:

Er... what? Do I detect some failed attempt at humour?

Also, what's high-tech about the new cars?
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

The new cars have LED-based train information (time, next stop, line, etc), as well as a nice recorded voice with stop information.

The major problems with this sign are:

1) In the two years I've been riding the subway, these "new" cars have been around, and I've only just now seen one of these signs. The statute of limitations on the word "new" must be less than two years.
2) Anyone who's ever rode the NYC subway will immediately realize this when they get on said new high-tech car; there's no need for a sign to inform them.
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

PkerUNO says:

So you mean that not only did it take them two years to put up the signs, but it also took them two years to come up with such a bad joke?

Congratulations. :P

Random fact: the automatic voice on the London Underground is called "Sonya". This being because after a while she "getS ON YA nerves". Honest!
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

tienmao says:

maybe it's a new new car? like version x.12 where it was x.11 before.

not to say that makes it any less retarded at this point.
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

herbieIIDX says:

"LED-based train"

Who else thought of the Jaeger Final Attack video?
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

jefdiesel says:

theres another one that says, 'we hope you like our new high tech cars, we've bought a heck of a lot of them'
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

armchairathlete says:

Opinions are like assholes...everyone's got one.
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

inwoodtraveller says:

I actually saw this sign on a run-down A train a couple of weeks ago. Darn camera-less phone!
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

Megan the Librarian says:

jefdiesel says:
theres another one that says, 'we hope you like our new high tech cars, we've bought a heck of a lot of them'

I saw this sign, too... as I was riding on the most ancient of F trains. I'll see one of those high-tech trains on my line right about the time my yet to-be born child's yet-to-be-born child graduates from college. Or even longer.

Not that I'm cynical or anything.
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

newport1 says:

by the way its STATUTE of Limitations, not statue.
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

tiqtoq [deleted] says:

we're going to talk to them, but because we are the MTA, they won't understand what we're saying.
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

Seth W. says:

they have these on the smelly and junky J and Z trains. Gross.
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

sangsara says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Bad Ads, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

dM.nyc™ says:

I also saw one in an ancient subway car. I nearly died of laughter.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

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