New York and another dumb idea!

The New York City Subway is "introducing" London style payment systems. Namely one must use a smart phone and special app. Now there are many problems. First, not everyone has a smart phone. Second not many people have the app necessary. Third, the app can be scammed and your credit smashed. Fourth, did you ever try to get through the Penn Station booth to the E train at rush hour! There will be thousands of smashed smart phones the first hour! Perhaps the quasi Brit who runs the show should try this for once. Then there is Times Square at 5 PM in July! Or Grand Central at 8:30 in February with an ice storm.

This seems like a half baked idea by another foreign (non New Yorker) highly paid temp passing through before he gets canned for a collapsing system and moves on to another city. Just think. If you do not have a smart phone you need a credit card which is WiFi compatible. Try and get one! They are not available. Worse, what if you are from another country, no credit, incompatible smart phone. One has to ask what moron came up with this? Simple, one who sees themselves as a subject not a citizen! We have no King/Queen, we had a Revolution to enable the individual! What ever happened to paying with cash! Gone. You submit or walk. When will they stop that also. Perhaps after the Hudson River tunnels collapse!

Yes the system is old, yes it need an upgrade but the smart phone method is rant with operational and security problems. But alas, another Government employee telling us what is best. One should remember this when they start pitching Government healthcare. One need just examine the NHS.

And, by the way, if you were concerned about any semblance of privacy kiss it good by. Each time you use the smart phone app all your data will be downloaded and they can track your every move. Add facial recognition at the turn-style and you now have the ultimate in individual tracking! I guess our limited privacy is rapidly disappearing. I used to be able to buy a token, now I have to deliver all elements of my existence.

How soon before we must submit our DNA!