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Apr 8 03: metropolitan moment
The MTA subway token is being phased out forever on May 4. You won’t be able to buy them after this Saturday, for that matter. I’m not one of the folks who sees this as a sign of the Apocalypse; I made the jump to the Metrocard almost immediately, and the whole flat-fee-for-30-days’-transit thing is a godsend. But I liked the tokens. They were tactile in a way that the Metrocard isn’t. They had old-fashioned charm. I bought a couple the other day, just for nostalgia’s sake. One of them is now on my key ring.
But, as the NY Times points out, the death of the subway token will also mean the end of a particulary scary form of urban crime: token sucking. (Requires free registration to read the article.) Sari sent me the link, with the one-line comment “This has got to go on the blog.” No kidding. Enjoy.