Over the summer, striking Bay Area Rapid Transit workers became representatives of what some in tech see as the inefficiencies of government.
Mr. Beck does not look the part of what transit workers call foamers, meaning people who love the subway so much that they appear rabid when discussing it.
This is so because, even after several years of what transit officials describe as an "aggressive lighting upgrade" in the semi-Victorian environs of the New York City subway, there are still so many dusty, wan, Victorian-looking incandescent bulbs in the system that no one really has any idea how many there are.
Montreal, where the company is based, is a model of what Transit wants to be everywhere.
Kostas Gounis, an anthropologist, and one of the organizers of "In Transit" knew what the point of Mr. Kawamata's work was.
That includes a $928 million cut from transit construction grants, nearly half of what Congress recently appropriated for this fiscal year, and a $630 million reduction in subsidies for long-distance Amtrak routes.
The announcement about the transit shutdown and the evacuation of what the city called Zone A low-lying areas prompted a cascade of cancellations for Saturday and Sunday: Broadway shows, the Mets' games against the Atlanta Braves at Citi Field, the performances by the Dave Matthews Band on Governors Island and the outdoor showing of opera movies at Lincoln Center, among others.
The R32 was the train of the future, offering a vision of what mass transit would look like in fifty years — literally, as it happens, because, against all odds, roughly two hundred of the original R32s still operate on New York City's C, J, and Z lines.
But quietly and steadily, as the cards became available at MetroCard machines and word about them spread, sales mounted and part of what some transit officials feared has come to pass: The cards have become a hugely popular way to ride the subway.
The R32 was the train of the future, offering a vision of what mass transit would look like in fifty years literally, as it happens, because, against all odds, roughly two hundred of the original R32s still operate on New York City's C, J, and Z lines.
