Faulty Subway Sign Mixes up Colors for B and C lines

[Quill Depot 1,570]

[float=left][/float]Subway riders in New York navigate by a combination of rote and conditioned reflexes — making the correct turns, choosing the right platform and (except on rare, embarrassing occasions) jumping on the right train without much thought.

 

They also rely on a poetic sense of color: Broadway lines, for example, are red; the Eighth Avenue lines are blue.

 

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Edited August 23, 2012 by Harry

[Tokkemon 448]

For the love of the lord please remove the BCC code.

[Quill Depot 1,570]

For the love of the lord please remove the BCC code.

 

 

I did it, mistake.

 

The orange bullet is so off. It's like a 6th Avenue line that runs on Broadway. Whoever made that prank failed.

Edited August 22, 2012 by Quill Depot

[CDTA 724]

At first I was wondering, how did I not see that sign? Then I saw it was downtown 59th St.

 

Secondly, FOAM.

Edited August 22, 2012 by CDTA

[realizm 4,456]

At the Columbus Circle station on Sunday, a sign on a downtown platform had mixed up the colors of the B and C lines; the B wore the Eighth Avenue blue and the C was dressed in a shock of orange.

 

 

Oops.

Edited August 22, 2012 by realizm

[Tokkemon 448]

They should leave it up as a social experiment. See how many people actually notice it or not. Also, it's pretty wild seeing the B as a blue line. It makes me think of re-organization of the lines where the go on 8th ave while go on 6th ave.

[Quill Depot 1,570]

They should leave it up as a social experiment. See how many people actually notice it or not. Also, it's pretty wild seeing the B as a blue line. It makes me think of re-organization of the lines where the go on 8th ave while go on 6th ave.

 

 

But change the orange to the real darker orange. And the terminates at Second Avenue.

[TheSubwayStation 908]

Unfortunately, this re-organization isn't possible...The can't run on 8th Avenue, not to mention that having the , , , and all on one track doesn't work.

[Via Garibaldi 8 8,582]

Oh boy... Can we not get all philosophical here? It was just a wrong sign. Besides when trains have to run on different tracks ( train via the in Manhattan for example), people get on just the same. All they care about is that the train is going somewhere, perhaps in their direction. Sad but true.

Edited August 22, 2012 by Via Garibaldi 8

[checkmatechamp13 2,272]

Unfortunately, this re-organization isn't possible...The can't run on 8th Avenue, not to mention that having the , , , and all on one track doesn't work.

 

Sure it can. You'd probably get tie-ups with the switches, but all you'd have to do is have it use the switch by West 4th Street to get back onto the 6th Avenue Line to Brooklyn.

[TheSubwayStation 908]

Sure it can. You'd probably get tie-ups with the switches, but all you'd have to do is have it use the switch by West 4th Street to get back onto the 6th Avenue Line to Brooklyn.

Nope.

[checkmatechamp13 2,272]

Nope.

 

The makes its way over to 6th Avenue whenever it has to terminate at 2nd Avenue.

 

It looks like it can be done northbound, but not southbound. Northbound, the would have to pull into Broadway/Lafayette on the express track, cross over to the local track, and then cross over to the 8th Avenue local track.

 

Southbound it can't do it because there's no crossover by Broadway-Lafayette.

 

In any case, I don't see the big deal here. I mean, it's still pointing them to the trains.

[Tokkemon 448]

I meant changing around the nomenclature, not necessarily changing the actual services, but kudos for being adventurous, I suppose.

[Fresh Pond 5,363]

Someone peeled off the stickers that was in place (and I have a bunch as who did it) that covered up the mistake. There was also a blue at 125 St but they replaced that whole sign

[Brighton Express 567]

Oops.

 

 

Lmfao, a shock of orange.

[ACEVE14 37]

 

 

 

Read more at: http://www.nytimes.c...=1&ref=nyregion

 

 

HA HA! That was too f****** funny.

[VWM 404]

That's halarious. And foamtacious.

[QM1to6Ave 1,688]

I still think the 14th street takes the cake

[IRT Bronx Express 357]

 

to Bedford Pk Blvd, rush hrs only... check it out at 145 St LL.

[Roadcruiser1 284]

The irony when the blue is in Grand Theft Auto.

 

 

[VWM 404]

What GTA is this?

[realizm 4,456]

^ Should be Grand Theft Auto IV

[Quill Depot 1,570]

Someone also peeled off the stickers after the turnstiles at the 14th Street, University entence on 14th Street. So, the sign says .

Edited August 23, 2012 by Quill Depot

[N4 Via Merrick Rd 234]

Ahhhh maintenance.....FAILLLL

[Guest Lance]

It's not a fail if people keep peeling off the corrected stickers. The signs were correct at one point.