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The NYC Subway (1/7/05)

1/7/05: Please sign this petition ASAP to help defeat the ban proposal!
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/notransitpicban

You can also send the MTA your comments directly via this page on their site -- just choose "Rules of Conduct Comment" for your category:
http://mta-nyc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/mta_nyc.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php?p_prod_lvl1=2&%20p_cat_lvl1=12

12/17/04: Well, the MTA is officially back to their original ban proposal again, and it looks like they might be using this holiday season to pull a fast one on us(!). :-(
http://www.nydailynews.com/11-30-2004/news/story/257474p-220531c.html
http://www.nycsubway.org/photoban.html

9/16/04: Well, looks like the MTA is backing off on their original ban proposal afterall though not completely. I'd been waiting for news on this for a while and had already begun suspecting this. Here's one article on this news:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/231470p-198751c.html

6/16/04: The NY MTA has recently proposed a ban on cameras in the subways. A sad time, but it's still only a proposal so far, and there is a 45-day period for public comment going on right now. If you care about this issue, let your voice be heard even if you live outside NYC and/or the USA since tourism matters to NYC -- and tourists are some of the most likely shooters in the subways. Today, it's the NYC subway, but tomorrow, it could easily be many other public places around NYC, the USA or most anywhere else in the world. And yes, while I too am concerned about terrorism, this is no way to address it.

Check out these links for other older articles on the proposed ban:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/21/nyregion/21subway.html?8hpib
http://www.wnbc.com/traffic/3328661/detail.html
http://www.ny1.com/ny/TopStories/SubTopic/index.html?topicintid=1&subtopicintid=1&contentintid=40174
http://villagevoice.com/issues/0423/haber.php (There's a photo contest too)

And what the Straphangers Campaign is doing about the ban proposal, including a poll, contest, petition, etc:
http://www.straphangers.org/photoban/index.htm

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Next stop?
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Next stop?

After rush hour
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After rush hour

Ho hum, off we go
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Ho hum, off we go

After Midnight
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After Midnight

Rails in motion
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Rails in motion

Exit to Wonderland?
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Exit to Wonderland?

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Magazine Cover
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Magazine Cover

Attitude
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Attitude

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Avoiding eye contact
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Avoiding "eye" contact

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