Comments on: Two Years of LinkNYC https://www.payphone-project.com/two-years-linknyc.html Fri, 14 Sep 2018 17:52:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: the payphone project https://www.payphone-project.com/two-years-linknyc.html#comment-11839 Fri, 14 Sep 2018 17:52:19 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=7632#comment-11839 In reply to Steven.

I see people using them but not very often. The program is said to be 100% funded by advertising revenues, with zero tax dollars, though I’ve long been a little suspicious of that claim being 100% true. I agree about the screens being blighted eyesores, and the quantity of these things is ludicrous. There are not even 2,000 of them on the streets yet, we are supposed to get 10,000!

]]> By: Steven https://www.payphone-project.com/two-years-linknyc.html#comment-11838 Fri, 14 Sep 2018 17:40:24 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=7632#comment-11838 At first there were just a few, now they are on almost every street corner. I have never seen anyone using one, have you? The other day, out of curiosity, I tried to look up where to vote in primaries, but the station did not work. They are also massive eyesores. And the last thing we need is to have more screens flashing the 24/7 news cycle at us while we are walking down the street. I would think it is also extremely expensive to build and install them, and then you need people to program for them, maintenance, etc. Aren’t there much better ways to spend our NYC tax dollars?

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