From Pinzler:

I took a picture of this poster on the B train.  Sorry if the smaller text is hard to read but the poster is meant to convey how “forward thinking” the MTA is by allowing third parties to create transit apps using freely available MTA data.  The text of the poster asks people to “Search the web for ‘NY transit apps’ to see what we mean” … so I did.

The first result was link to the MTA jobs website (because there was an “application for employment” I guess).  The next two were, in fact, reviews of transit apps written by third parties. 

The fourth link is what makes this art.  It links to an article on Business Insider from over a year ago titled “Apple Reinstates New York Transit iPhone App After MTA Finds Sanity”.  Originally, the MTA considered its train and bus schedules as copyrighted intellectual property and it wasn’t until bloggers, activists, lawyers, and commuters stepped up for developers that the MTA backed off.  Very forward thinking indeed.

It takes a very special kind of boneheaded hypocrisy to make a claim and then lead me directly to the evidence otherwise while trying to prove that claim.  

Here is a link to the article (or you could just search ‘NY transit apps’): http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-reinstates-stationstop-app-in-response-to-mta-request-2009-10

Thanks Pinz! This made my day.