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Suffocating Subway Ads Take Over Train
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Jen Carlson
Published Dec 10, 2008
Modified Dec 10, 2008
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Photo by Jake Dobkin.
In case you weren't feeling confined enough while riding through the underground tunnels of New York, the MTA has taken a step to ensure everyone gets that cozy feeling of claustrophobia during their commutes. As shown in the above photo, the organization is now allowing full window ads. These aren't the kind that you can see clearly out of either, as one disgruntled straphanger noted: "outward visibility is significantly reduced in outdoor lighting, and severely reduced to totally eliminated at night or in low lighting." Someone bail the MTA out before we all become walking billboards.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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