July 19, 2004

The fine art of subway card swiping

More than a year after the city did away with subway tokens, New Yorkers are finally getting the hang of how to properly swipe their subway cards, the New York Times reports. A software upgrade in April eliminated some problems but riders need to use a level swipe at the speed of "10 and 40 inches per second." Way to make it sound harder than it is, MTA! The story also yields this trivia gem: "The busiest turnstile in the subway system, turnstile No. 10 in the middle array by the escalators in the main entrance to the subway below Grand Central Terminal, reads a whopping 236,000 cards a month."

July 19, 2004 02:53 PM in Transportology

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