Please Swipe Again and Again and Again and Again at This Turnstile
You hear the train in the tunnel. And you really don't want to miss it. So you run up to the gate, quickly swipe your Metrocard, and rush through, only get an unyielding turnstile arm square in the stomach. It's your own fault, you realize; you swiped too quickly. So you do it again. And again. The train arrives, the doors open, and you're still on the wrong side of the gate, swiping and swiping and swiping. No luck, still. "Stand clear of the closing doors." More swiping. The thwack of the train doors closing. More swiping. The eerie, first-three-notes-of-"Somewhere" sound as the brakes release and the train accelerates. More swiping. The train is gone. And finally your Metrocard registers.
All of which, we imagine, makes you as happy as we are to learn that the Transit Authority has installed new software on all its Metrocard readers which makes them "more sensitive" — that is, more finicky about reading cards.
"I don't expect that customers are going to notice this," a TA spokesman tells the News.
Of course not.
