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Re: Time for the MTA to cash in on the graffiti in the system...

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jan 6 18:15:14 2008, in response to Re: Time for the MTA to cash in on the graffiti in the system..., posted by Christopher Rivera on Sat Jan 5 17:47:22 2008.

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This is completely FALSE. Graffiti artists vandals put their scrawlings up for almost the same reason a dog pisses on a fire hydrant. If they see their "work" in a magazine or a legitimate website, even if they don't earn any money, they'll think of themselves as cool and so others will be encouraged to vandalize in order to get the same attention for themselves.

And as for subway cars, the zero tolerance policy is helped by the fact that subway cars now get rarely graffitoed. If the rate increased, it would be difficult to maintain adequate train schedules if trains had to be laid up waiting to be washed.

And the best way for these artists (for those who actually are artists) to use their talents for economic betterment is for them to find a legitimate outlet for them where they can get paid instead of illegally painting in subway tunnels and have the MTA profit from their work. That is of course if the MTA will find enough "work" in the tunnels to profit from, as nearly all of it is absolute garbage that people would pay money to AVOID seeing.

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