About Those New Rules

The Daily News perseverates on the MTA’s new proposed rules, noting that sipping water, among other things, will become a ticketable offense:

Beware, New Yorkers: The subways are filled with potential lawbreakers.

They’re the fiends who put their feet on seats. They sip water – or worse, coffee.

They might even be you.

The Daily News hit the subway yesterday and caught dozens of commuters flouting soon-to-be adopted rules revising the transit system’s code of behavior. The new rules, which also include a ban on walking between cars, will take effect Oct. 1.

Feet on the seats, sipping liquids and walking between cars are obviously associated with other behaviors subway officials must stop (sleeping or spending all night on the train, drinking alcohol and panhandling/performing/selling candy), but the logical extreme does seem a little . . . extreme (thus the pretty good headling: “A Rail Jolt”).