DCist: What Metro Needs: Snarkier Signage

May 19, 2006

What Metro Needs: Snarkier Signage

Metro has experimented with some interesting signs in the past, but we haven't seen much of a change in rider behavior. Perhaps Metro should try something a little less passive aggressive and more to the point, like these signs found by Gothamist on the New York subway...

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Comments (14)

By ryan

[1] | 05/19/06 12:31PM

how much do i love 'uncouth' as a vocab. word. we don't use it enough anymore. it very much describes some of the really awful behavior found on the metro.

By www.DCguide.com

[2] | 05/19/06 12:41PM

I like the new metro signs with the words spelled out phonetically...it gets people's attention

By Ed

[3] | 05/19/06 12:50PM

Some suggestions:

Don't suck.
Don't crowd the door, asshole.
Stand on the bloody right.
Get that finger out of your ear, you don't know where that finger's been.
Don't stuff your face.

By Josh

[4] | 05/19/06 12:55PM

I've overheard tourists with young families responding to those weird Metro ads. "Don't be a doorker" or something like that. Seriously. So I have hope for the one that tells people not to stop at the end of an escalator, which is the ultimate in tourist behavior.

By Clare

[5] | 05/19/06 01:23PM

I think they need do add some other important signs up there: "Do Not Touch Me" and "Do Not Clip Fingernails" being the key ones.

By the colonel

[6] | 05/19/06 01:41PM

"Do Not Clip Fingernails"

so i guess i'm not the only one who's seen this...

Clare, by any chance are you refering to the elderly guy in a ratty old suit who rides the yellow line and clips his nails onto the seat next to him?

By monkeyrotica

[7] | 05/19/06 02:02PM

There used to be a nice gentlemen on the Red Line who would remove his shoes and proceed to clip his toenails between Shady Grove and White Flint. That metallic "snap" followed by the arc of the toenails haunts me to this day.

By gidge

[8] | 05/19/06 02:07PM

omg. what is that with the nail clipping? i've heard that familiar snap several times on the bus. maybe next week i'll just start shaving my legs on the bus.

By fish sandwich

[9] | 05/19/06 02:07PM

anybody remeber the red line masturbator from like 6-7 years ago? he was some teenage black kid in a nine inch nails hat that used to go at like clockword at least once a week. it made my ride awkwardly amusing from time to time.

By frank

[10] | 05/19/06 03:47PM

Some Mexican stood up with his arms upwards for the entire ride from Metro Center to Vienna. He had the worst BO I had ever smelled and it honestly almost made me vomit.

By Mike B.

[11] | 05/19/06 04:13PM

Is there an appropriate sign for the guy this morning on the Red Line who, as I was getting on at Woodley Park, stepped over from the opposite door so that both he and this young woman were blocking my entrance (I guess he wanted to avoid the Dupont Circle passengers and get read to get off at Farragut North way in advance). Then gave me a funny look, sort of stepped out of the way to allow me to board.

I remember seeing one guy on the Red Line over the winter who kept sneezing and wiping his hands on the pole. I realize they're not the cleanest things on earth, but still. C'mon.

By Joclyn

[12] | 05/20/06 03:37PM

I am absolutely terrified that nail clippings will end up in my hair. Uccch. That snap. Ucchh. I can hear it from across the car.

By brechtgirl

[13] | 09/15/06 05:16PM

Or Metro could just post this, which I saw on a building in Melbourne, Australia:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16115534@N00/sets/72157594285680844/detail/

By brechtgirl

[14] | 09/15/06 05:17PM

Sorry, link on previous post doesn't work. Just cut and paste.