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Sep 18, 2008

The NYC Subway Turnstile.
























  • Problem Statement:
I feel uncomfortable when I have many stuff with me
I pass the turnstile, I am momentarily under the illusion like a prisoner
Re-issue thousands of metro cards; Some of them recharges the value of the cards,
but still many people just throw it away. Even though metro-transit
tries to recycle cards as much as possible, still wasted.
  • Context Analysis:
People who held many stuffs often stuck in the turnstile.
Not only busy business people ,but also large-scaled people hung on the turnstile.
There are many dropped or left metro cards on the platforms.
No worker at a station tried to gather it or pick it up.
Recycle box was already fulled and no one collect it.
A Businessman who missed a train because of blocking by the door complained
size of the entrance. A little young boy flied a metro card to railroads tracks.
Fashionable guy in a station near NYU had a pad made by metro cards.
Tourists slung off the entrance how unpractical it is.
  • Proposed Solution:

Recently Citi-bank made agreements with metro-transit to use multifunctional card. This card contains a micro- chip and possibly substitute short-time use metro card. This would contribute to environment, and also increase efficiency of credit cards.




The shown picture is a turnstile of platform in Paris.
The turnstile has steel blocker instead crossbars.
Like the turnstile in Paris, I suggest that turnstile has twin clear Acrylic blocker with LED lights. Also redesigned turnstile should have micro-chip reader instead metro-card reader. Twin clear blocker would prevent a free ride. Also size of turnstile should be wider and larger for busy or big sized consumers.

Stylish turnstile would be an another landmark of New York City.

  • Idea Sketch:
Clear Acrylic provides openness to consumers, and twin- blockers would strengthen security. Alert beep and laser pointing are also added for security purpose. Tape-type metro card reader will be replaced to touch-style micro chip reader.

We could use Cell phone instead of holding credit cards. If we use cell phone, we can pass turnstile without any actions with mutual radio frequency communication system.


Sep 17, 2008

Turnstile. The NYC Subway

Turnstile Traffic Jam

Posted on April 23rd, 2007 by The SUBWAYblogger in Live Blogging On the Subway, Outta the Way, Transit Failures

Just when I thought I’ve seen everything, I see something new. Here’s the setup…

I’m walking down the stairs to the subway. Already I can see that there’s a ton of a people down there for some reason. The crowd is really thick. Keep in mind, this is a major transfer hub, so it has tons of entrances/exits.

So I finally squeeze my way to the turnstile to find that the line is 12 people deep at each gate. 10 gates wide, and a line 12 deep at each.

“Son of a bitch…a tourist group,” I thought to myself. That must be why all these people are here. Some idiot tour group is trying to get through the gates all together. But, that wasn’t it.

I got closer to the turnstile and saw people swiping over and over again. Wonderful! There’s 4 or 5 people swiping all these peolpe through? You’ve got to be kidding. That wasn’t it either.

I finally make it up close. Turns out, all of the gates stopped working at the same time!! Every turnstile said, “Please swipe again,” no matter how many times you tried.

Of course, idiots in the back of the line think that us at the front are complete morons. So of course they are yelling for us to get out of the way. Finally, I let one a-hole get in front of me to try his magic touch. Of course, it didn’t work.

“MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE!” I yelled back at this jerk. “I thought you knew how to do it, so WHAT’S THE HOLD UP CHIEF?!?”

People started jumping over, and that finally got the police officers to react. Not the growing, angry crowds…just the jumping over the turnstile. Can’t have that now can we.

Eventually, they opened up the service doors and let people stream through. It was funny to see people hesitate going through the door because a cop was holding it open. They were afraid, as if it was a trap or something. Can’t say I blame them.


http://subwayblogger.com/2007/04/23/turnstile-traffic-jam/

Sep 4, 2008

Self-portrait: Self-purification



To keep pure mind, washout the heart.


Talk much, and err much. Punish the lip.


I have no Idea how to solve the problems. Just doing an another puzzle.


What if I could replace my eye to eye of dazzling beauty?!
My desire to see only beautiful things.