[Sigia-l] NYC-CHI ...NYC Subway Vending Machines

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"Whitney Quesenbery" wrote:

> All too often, these threads start out with...

and continue with a plea for "Can't we all get along?" :-)

> On the subject of the NYC subway vending machines: One of the things I find
> frightening about the design of most of the ticket vending machines I've
> tried around the world is not whether they are good or bad, but that
> because they are large pieces of industrial hardware, they are likely to
> persist for a long time.

That's precisely the reason for raising the bar on highly visible,
pervasively used, public projects. They impact a lot of people and for a
long time. 

For amusement, I refer people to the recent history public toilets in NYC
(tested and discussed forever but never deployed) and, for a rather
fascinating architectural and moral play, I refer them to the current
evolution of proposals for the rebuilding of the WTC site.

Best,

Ziya