arts for transit

Why is it that the MTA insists on likening our trains to animals? First (and unendingly) we have dumb bunny:



Now, for 2008 (yeah, theyre a little behind. dumb bunny was 2006 and it's still up in some cars), we have ugly fish:



I travel to work in a big silver box, just like millions of others New Yorkers. Don't try to make my commute look fun or exciting or cartoony. I'm not having a "wild ride", I'm not surrounded by other sane-looking if wind-blown people on their way to la-la land. I'm hanging onto a metal pole teeming with bacteria, a few feet away from a homeless man teeming with the same. If anything, make a depiction of the train as a bacterium.