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New York Subways Are Ugly, According To Straphangers Campaign - Huffington Post

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New York Subways Are Ugly, According To Straphangers Campaign
Huffington Post
A survey conducted by the Straphangers Campaign has uncovered a wide range of conditions that include 79 percent of platforms found with significant paint peeling garnering the State of Subway Platforms "the ugly" stink of disapproval.
Subway stations staying clean: SurveyNew York Daily News
Peeling Paint A Real Scrape Underground, Survey FindsNY1
Straphangers Campaign Finds Room for Subway Platform ImprovementMobilizing the Region (blog)
Wall Street Journal -amNY
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Subway Survey Finds Rats, Yes, but Maybe Not as Many - New York Times (blog)

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Subway Survey Finds Rats, Yes, but Maybe Not as Many
New York Times (blog)
But what may be surprising is how infrequently the rodents were seen: they were reported in 11 percent of the stations surveyed by the Straphangers Campaign, in the group's first survey of platform conditions. “We found the good, the bad and the ugly,” ...
Subway Survey Shows Subpar Platform ConditionsWNYC (blog)
Graffiti, Peeling Paint and Rats Plague Subway Platforms, Survey ShowsDNAinfo
Straphangers: Clean our stationsMetro.us
CBS Local
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Published on Sunday 5th of February 2012 12:53:06 AM

New York City Briefs for 2-3-2012 - The Epoch Times

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New York City Briefs for 2-3-2012
The Epoch Times
The Straphangers Campaign released their first State of the Station Platforms survey finding on Thursday. The survey was conducted from July 11–Sept. 24, 2011 on 120 platforms throughout the city, which is 28 percent of the city's 909 systemwide ...

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Google Spends for New Consumer Education Campaign - Wall Street Journal (blog)

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Google Spends for New Consumer Education Campaign
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Beyond the obligatory website, which features how-to videos, the campaign incorporates online and print advertisements in newspapers and magazines nationwide as well as advertisements for straphangers in New York and Washington DC subway stations.

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Looking for That Midnight Train to Jamaica? - New York Times (blog)

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New York Times (blog)

Looking for That Midnight Train to Jamaica?
New York Times (blog)
Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign said the map answered questions he had wondered about on late-night trips, like why he once spotted a D “ghost train” on the R track. “Sometimes you have to be Magellan to figure out how to navigate the New ...

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Published on Sunday 5th of February 2012 12:53:06 AM

Bill Would Ban Eating on the Subway - NBC New York

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Bill Would Ban Eating on the Subway
NBC New York
Jason Chin-Fatt, a spokesman for the Straphangers Campaign, says the goal of the proposed ban is a good one but enforcement would be a problem. “You should focus more on a strong education campaign for anti-litter, maybe even tightening up those laws ...

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Published on Sunday 5th of February 2012 12:53:06 AM