Come on, New York, be nice.
I once heard that designers for the Washington Metrorail agonized over the "Doors Closing" recording, wanting to ensure that it was firm, yet polite. Even the "Please stand clear of the doors, thank you" recording is very sweet. Hopefully it gets the point across. (Actually, the "Please stand clear" recording on the new and rebuilt cars is quite mean sounding.)
So of course a Metro public safety awareness campaign featured signs in trains which asked, in nice upper- and lower-case lettering, "Is that your bag?"
New York will have none of that niceness. Instead, their posters say "PLEASE TAKE YOUR THINGS. OR WE WILL."
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massysett | 9:39 PM |
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That's the true New York attitude.
1) The automated announcements on Metro may look polite on paper, but the icy bitch who reads them make them anything but. In contrast, the automated messages used by NY's MTA are more direct but sound very reasonable when announced.
2) To be fair, re the above comment, the "Please take your things..." is on a poster next to a photograph of an entire station barricaded off while an expensive bomb-handling robot maneuvers towards somebody's abandoned suitcase. The obvious inference is that if you forget your stuff, you're inconviencing everyone around you and costing the transit agency thousands of bucks for their expensive little exercises. That seems reasonable too...
http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/mta/news/newsroom/seesomethingnew.htm
