Oct. 21st, 2018
She gets the one with the discount, and it has her photo on it.
There was a large ad in the waiting room explaining that the MTA is phasing out the old, color-coded discounted Metrocards that had people's gender on it, and now everybody is getting a plain white one instead. This might take some time, so if you really want a new card now, you can apply for it.
Which is all well and good, but I can't help wondering who ever decided it was so important to color-code them by gender in the first place. Sometimes, just sometimes, it really does seem a bit dystopian.
In other MTA news, apparently Union Square has been turned into a cheesy, family friendly haunted house. I think I have to miss it, but too bad.
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There was a large ad in the waiting room explaining that the MTA is phasing out the old, color-coded discounted Metrocards that had people's gender on it, and now everybody is getting a plain white one instead. This might take some time, so if you really want a new card now, you can apply for it.
Which is all well and good, but I can't help wondering who ever decided it was so important to color-code them by gender in the first place. Sometimes, just sometimes, it really does seem a bit dystopian.
In other MTA news, apparently Union Square has been turned into a cheesy, family friendly haunted house. I think I have to miss it, but too bad.
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