People show up on the subway munching all sorts of stuff. And they leave lots of it behind. And that says a New York Senator, is what brings on the rats. If you Feed ‘Em … you will Breed ‘Em … according to those working to ban food on New York subways. This isn’t the first time some New Yorkers are getting all crummy about the consumption of food in public. Is this a bit of class warfare on wheels?
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2012/03/06/eating-food-on-the-subway/
Commentator Andy Raskin returned to Tokyo, where he once lived, and discovered musical improvements to the notification sounds played at each stop on the Japan Railways line. We hear some examples.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1435627
John Wray reads the first chapter of Lowboy, the story of a sixteen-year-old paranoid schizophrenic who has wandered away from the mental hospital into the subway tunnels believing that the world will end within a few hours and that only he can save it.
http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/writersblock/profile.jsp?essid=24542