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Metropolitan Transit Authority officials say they're struggling to keep up with the changing face of the agency they're charged with running. "The so-called sing les cars are overflowing with people and every sexual niche, fetish or s ubculture has staked a claim to its own car, creating confusion and chao s" Kelly said the MTA first began to notice crowding of the front cars on su bway trains on Aug. The missive declared, "As of today, Wednesday, A ugust 14, the first car of every subway train running in New York Citys five boroughs is hereby declared THE SINGLES CAR: A free zone for unatta ched New Yorkers to meet the commuter of their dreams."
We thought this thing had gotten as big as it was g onna get by the time they ran their little article." Kelly said the first cars of many subway trains have become so overrun th at the second car has become a de facto "singles car for people who aren 't so desperate as to need to squeeze into the front car." Of greater concern to the MTA, though, is that since publication of the S un article, various sexual subcultures have gotten into the game, claimi ng other cars on the trains. For instance, the third car of every train is better known as the lesbian car, Kelly said. "The last car of every train, appropriately enough, is the anal sex car," Kelly added. What's more, Kelly said, some of the cars have been claimed by two groups or more.
"It was awful," said one single mother who asked not to be identified as she got off the A train at 14th Street. "My 12-year-old son and I boarde d the fifth car of the train hoping to meet a suitable male role model. Instead, I found myself using my pepper spray to fend off four overweigh t middle-aged men in leather pants who assumed I was Jeffrey's pimp." Kelly said the problem of multiple groups claiming the same car has been exacerbated by some groups only claiming a car on one or two particular subway lines. "I stepped onto the F train last night and, without knowing it, boarded t he third car, which apparently is the 'BDSM' car," said Brooklynite Adam Paulson, explaining that on the R train the third car is the "wounded i n love" car. "Before I knew what was going on, a man intent on punching me out was moving toward me quickly. "Just before he connected, I thought it was a mugging," Paulson said. "Bu t then I came to a few minutes later and saw that I'd been tied to the h andrail and that my pants were around my ankles. It took me five minutes to convince car mistress Dominique that I wasn't role playing and that I really did just want to go home.
Chicks with dicks' car," wh ich is the fourth car on the F train, Kelly said. Some MTA customers are alrea dy calling on the system to put things back the way they were, by random ly assigning seats to passengers. Said Greenwich Village resident Susan Rabinowitz, "I'm beginning to pine for the days when all the cars were the 'Leave me the hell alone' car. "For the time being, I'm just seeking out the 'I'd rather curl up with a good book than a man or woman' car and making due," she said.
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