As much as public love the New York Subway, there is always something to complain about - the overcrowding at rush hour, the delays, and just the dirt that is found within the system. final week, the transit advocacy group, Straphangers Campaign made its list of Ten Plagues of the Subway. Although it does not include amphibians hopping around the stations or every passenger exiting the system with boils, the list at least does include flooding (minus the blood).

Delays and overcrowding made it tops on the list. But surprisingly, bugs and rats did not. Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign said that he has “already been chastised for leaving out rats, cockroaches, and subway preachers.” Well, bedbugs, though, were spotted on
subway benches at Union Square, Fordham Road, and Hoyt-Schermerhorn
stations, similar to how lice and gnats attacked Egypt in Exodus’ Ten Plagues.

Responding to the list, the MTA stated
that the transit agency “has

been and continues to work tough to supply
the type of mass transit experience that he greatest city in the world
deserves.”

So what comes next? I guess it’s the parting of moment Avenue to build the new subway line in the Upper East Side.

Here is the full list of plagues:

• Overcrowding
• Delays
• Long waits
• Flooding
• Summer heat
• Dirty seats
• Garbled announcements
• MetroCard mis-swipes
• Just lost a train
• Traveling with your newborn

Photo by Flicker user Joe Holmes.

Original post by Alexander Lew

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