Dante’s Inferno, 8th Circle, Bolgia 9: Broken MTA announcement systems
“Sowers of discord” are placed in this circle of Dante’s Inferno, and who’s going to argue that those shrieking gargles we often hear on the subway or the platform do not perform such a function? In with air-conditioning you go, broken MTA announcement systems, and here’s why: when you’re broken, and broken real good as you often are, every minute or so we have to hear horrible scratchy blaring screams from subway speakers that are supposed to be in English, but are actually a high frequency form of alien language that must be meant to make your ears bleed. We’re already pissed we have to go to work, the caffeine has already got us jittery. We need to also listen to a cacophony worthy of the late X-Man Banshee?
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Ya kid!
The MTA doesn’t have the money to even make the trains run on time or undertake much needed repairs in a semi competant manner let alone improve their broadcast PA system. Besides no one really listens anyway, I’d let it skate. It gives the subways character.
not if you loose your hearing though. it really hurts the ears. I’m not talking about the stuff that you can’t understand because it’s all static. I’m talking about the loud screeching squabble. The A train has this all the time in Inwood.