Thursday, 29 June 2017

New Yorkers are using underground Wi-Fi to vent about the broken subway — and it’s working

New Yorkers have known for a long time that their subway was busted. But until recently, they lacked a venue to vent their frustration publicly. Thankfully, Governor Andrew Cuomo came along and installed wireless internet in all 279 underground subway stations, so when someone is stuck on an F train with no air-conditioning for over an hour, or is forced to evacuate through the rat- and smoke-filled tunnels after an A train derails, they can do what they’ve always wanted to: tweet their complaints directly at Cuomo.

For the past few months, Cuomo has been unable to tweet anything from his official account without his mentions flooded with vitriolic New Yorkers demanding he fix the subway. A tweet congratulating the promotion of his new...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/29/15893260/nyc-subway-mta-broken-wifi-cuomo-twitter

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/06/new-yorkers-are-using-underground-wi-fi.html

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