City bus and subway rides may have just become a little more educational; or enlightening; or thought provoking. Or so the MTA hopes.
Starting the week of April 30, the MTA initiated a new series called Train of Thought in its SubTalk program. Building on the 15-year-old Poetry in Motion project, which installed poetry excerpts alongside the graffiti and advertisements inside buses and trains, Train of Thought will feature short quotations about history, philosophy, literature and science.
The quotes have been chosen by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for their “significance and accessibility” according to the MTA. A pair of new quotations from different disciplines will make their MTA debut every three months.
“New Yorkers have wide-ranging interests, and we felt that we could include material from a variety of other disciplines in addition to poetry to bring important, engaging, significant quotes to our riders, and entice them to explore the author or subject further,” MTA Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications Alicia Martinez said in a statement.
MTA’s creating quotable trains and buses
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