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New York Subway Signs

Yosef Lerner · 2.5M views · 2013-10-30 · 1:32

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Overview

A short social experiment video in which people mimic the New York subway practice of workers pointing at signs and signals. It makes the point cheerfully.

On Hacker News

It is linked in threads on pointing-and-calling and error prevention as a light illustration of the practice.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2017–2020

Topics

Transit, cities & urban planningPsychology & human behavior
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nyc subwaypoka-yokesafety practicessocial experiment

What people said

geofffox · 2017-04 · Recommendation

It's a little late in the game to get this seen, but they do this in the NYC subways too. It made for a great video! [VIDEO]

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sbr464 · 2020-02 · Reference

One of the more interesting examples of this is the NYC subway operators pointing at signs to show attention: [VIDEO]

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astura · 2019-04 · Reference

Here's a video of people having a bit of fun with it. [VIDEO] (New York City imported the practice from Japan)

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