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Re: Rode Queens Blvd yesterday

Posted by gbs on Sun Aug 21 20:29:44 2022, in response to Re: Rode Queens Blvd yesterday, posted by VictorM on Sun Aug 21 16:07:44 2022.


Your third photo shows another TA money-wasting boondoggle. At Jamaica-VanWyck and Sutphin Blvd (and possibly Parsons-Archer), the original platform-edge signs were backlit from the continuous platform lighting. Shortly after the stations opened, the backlit signs were covered over by the now-standard metal signs, which are there to this day.

At J-VW even the conductor's board was backlit:





Note the original name of the Sutphin station (and that's not Helvetica, it's Standard):




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