7/10/2023 0 Comments Mta subway card reader and writer![]() I have to use my dominant hand, even though that means doing this weird cross-body stretch.” (Her fiancé and fellow southpaw David Walters fared better his mother had sent him to preschool armed with a note declaring, “My son is left-handed and I’d like to keep him that way,” but he’s since developed a level of ambidexterity.) Refilling a subway card isn’t much easier, what with the slot on the right. “But I couldn’t hold it steady enough, so I always got the ‘Please swipe again’ message. “The first few times I took the subway, I tried switching my MetroCard to my right hand,” says left-hander Maura Kutner, 28, whose swipe has been observed by this correspondent to be quite ungainly. ![]() As a right-hander who’s been stuck behind many an awkward cross-reaching lefty at the turnstile (always as the train is just getting ready to close its doors) and someone whose own lefty mother cannot properly cut paper without a pair of special scissors, I am here to ask: Is it really such a crazy idea after all? ![]() ![]() Two Saturdays ago, as an April-fool’s joke, the blog Transportation Nation reported that the MTA was launching a pilot program to test left-handed card readers at subway entrances.
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