PAGE 1 UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT David Steele and his rotating crew of dancers have held court on New York City's subway cars for nearly 20 years.
But there seems to be a growing movement among subway etiquette jurists -- or at least among the dozen or so people who were recently found at random on trains across the city and interviewed -- that a reclassification of pole-hugging may be in order.
In the meantime, some minimal air movement system for subway platforms ought to be installed as soon as possible.
They also cannot take up more than one seat if it interferes with other passengers' comfort, nor can they block movement on a subway by doing something like standing too close to the doors.
The Independent's Paul Taylor also admired the visuals: "Transparent, rearrangeable LED screens swarm with stock-market numbers, as a chorus of bankers perform thrusting dances, or they cause a lurch in the stomach as they plunge us into hurtling subway trains where Matrix-like movement is unsettlingly married to visual distortion.
In fact, in a dusty file room in downtown Brooklyn, there are boxes containing minute-by-minute records of the daily movements of your subway line, going several back years -- all handwritten, on paper.
"What they do is ask to shut down all heavy traffic movement, which would include subway lines, to further prevent instability because of vibration".
A few months ago, angered by the authorities' lack of action when a friend was harassed on the Delhi subway, Ms. D'Mello and others began a movement called Please Mend the Gap.
"When a doctor, Craig Spencer, tested positive in New York City on Thursday, the two governors watched as city officials strained to trace his every movement - on the subway, at a bowling alley, at a meatball shop," the New York Times reports.
We utilize here in an unprecedented manner the large scale, real-time 'Oyster' card database of individual person movements in the London subway to reveal the structure and organization of the city.
