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NewMindSpace and Jason Eppink teamed up to eliminate the false hope brought on by the New York City subway’s “wait time” LED screens. The team of guerilla pranksters installed “Spoiler Alert” under the platform countdown signs in an effort to help preserve the unpredictably of public transportation.

Their primary effect, then, is to erode faith in the system, to create expectations that can’t always be met, to raise false hopes, and to erase the mystery and magic of the wondrous system that transports more than five million riders a day.

These LED signs also threaten historical social behaviors, rendering obsolete the time-honored New York tradition of leaning over the platform edge with the hope of glimpsing headlights from an approaching train.

The Spoiler Alert signs warn waiting riders of this potentially unwanted information – allowing them to avert their eyes so they may preserve their spirit of adventure – while still leaving visible the data for travelers who wish to ruin the surprise for themselves.

These clever signs may call the train countdown a “spoiler alert,” but for anyone who has sweated it out in the steamy hell known as the NYC subway system, the train wait time clocks provide the last glimmer of hope when you have reached the verge of passing out and getting gobbled up by rats.

Full story at Laughing Squid.

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