{"id":3837,"date":"2008-11-26T11:57:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T16:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/11\/26\/ttc-vs-mta-give-me-liberty-and-fuzzy-seats\/"},"modified":"2008-11-26T11:57:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T16:57:05","slug":"ttc-vs-mta-give-me-liberty-and-fuzzy-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/11\/26\/ttc-vs-mta-give-me-liberty-and-fuzzy-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"TTC vs MTA: Give me liberty AND fuzzy seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3006\/3061662082_aa8c16e787.jpg?v=0\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I arrived in New York City yesterday evening and am saying in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bedford_Stuyvesant\">Bedford-Stuyvesant<\/a> in central Brooklyn. At around 10pm I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bHRbEhLj540&amp;feature=related\">took the A Train<\/a> into Manhattan because as much as Brooklyn &#8212; or any outer borough in any city &#8212; is nice, it&#8217;s not the middle and I always feel an urgent need to go to the middle as quickly as possible to feel like I&#8217;ve arrived in a place. One quick observation is that the MTA&#8217;s perimeter seating, coupled with smooth and level plastic benches (with no bum-dimples), makes sitting in one place on the train quite a bit of work. I hooked my arm around a pole at the end of the bench so I wouldn&#8217;t slide down when the train stopped. This is not a problem during rush hour as the general civic body(s) keeps you in place, but the fuzzy and grippy seats of the TTC are missed. Maybe they&#8217;re harder to clean, but they make the TTC feel much more like a comfortable living room.<\/p>\n<p>Other NYC observations over the next five days &#8212; some great, some small, some inconsequential &#8212; can be followed along via<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/shawnmicallef\"> my Twitter feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived in New York City yesterday evening and am saying in Bedford-Stuyvesant in central Brooklyn. 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