Mass Transit Treachery

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd3D2w-OJxo&feature=player_embedded

There are very few differences between New York City mass transit and a three-ring circus. In fact the similarities are remarkably frightening.  First ticket prices are about the same.  At least if the MTA has its way by January 1, 2011 you can except to pay ten percent more for a ride on the greatest, moving show on earth. Ten percent more to  be bombarded on your daily commute by homeless barbershop quartets; Mariachi bands; N-bomb dropping Dominican teenagers; breakdancers doing coin drops in between poles; school kids selling M&M candies and Skittles for some phantom basketball league to keep them off the very same streets they’re hawking the candy on; Chinese dvd movie bootleggers; wide-eyed, fanny pack wearing, water bottle carrying, NYC street map and guidebook (pick a language) clutching, “Do you know what stop we get off?” asking- while studying the subway map tourists and this jackass.