Finally. Since I moved to NYC I have been reading about talks the city has had about allowing cell phone reception in the subway. Now, while I don’t like the idea of being on the 6 train during rush hour with every asshole on the train talking on their cell phone, I think it is insane that you can’t get reception in trains because people don’t want to be bothered. Every day I ride the J train into the city… it is an above ground train and people talk on their cell phones. I talk on my cell phone. And you know what? It is not that bad. I am rarely bothered. The only time I am ever annoyed is with those god awful walkie-talkie phones that should be illegal in the first place. I would slap the person silly who came up with that fucking idea. That beeping drives me fucking nuts. Sorry… off track. The point is in a few years you are going to be able to talk on your phones while you are in the station which makes calling work to tell them you are going to be ten min late because the train hasn’t showed up yet that much easier. Obviously in case of emergency it is a life saver… literally. For most of the people reading this site it means not missing important phone calls about change in party plans when you are waiting at the Bedford L. I was in DC the other weekend and I could use my cell on the train there. I was on the train for nearly an hour and if I didn’t have reception I would have missed an important call. Anyway, clearly the idea is a good one when the dissenting quote the Times found was this one.

But Karol Ledworowski, 28, a student who lives in Tudor City, thought it was unnecessary. “You can wait until you leave the station to make a phone call or receive a message,” he said. And he worried that terrorists could use cellphone signals to detonate a bomb underground.

This brilliant individual thinks that we shouldn’t have phones on subways is because the terrorists might win. What the fuck? How about when the terrorist blow something up and you are trapped underground and can’t call for help, or reach your families. Or… how about terrorists figuring out another way to blow up a bomb with out a fucking cell phone. For example a suicide bomb like every other time. Or how about stop living your life in fear and worrying what the god damned terrorists are going to do you dumb Bush voting mother fucker. Sorry… I am ranting. This is good for the city, they just should have done this years ago.

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