“Subway” on The Daily Caller

TOKYO (AFP) – A former member of Japan’s Aum Supreme Truth doomsday cult, which was responsible for the 1995 nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo subway, was arrested Sunday after almost 17 years on the run, police said. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — The long-delayed project to wire New York City subway stations for mobile phone service is finally bearing fruit. A person close to the matter said six stations will go live with the service on Tuesday. (more)

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Move over, Mickey D’s, and bring Ronald McDonald with you — there’s a new fast food king in town. (more)

Subway’s taking the next train outta Skins-ville. (more)

Eh, whatever. I’m going back to sleep. (more)

The Port Authority is working on a hush-hush project to terror-proof the four PATH subway tunnels running under the Hudson River to thwart a potential catastrophic bombing that could flood the system, The Post has learned. (more)

Federal law enforcement authorities are investigating a nascent plot to carry out a series of terrorist bombings at stations in the Washington Metro system, according to intelligence and law enforcement sources. (more)

Metro officials are preparing to roll out a new $250,000 program intended to address the recent rash of successful suicide attempts involving the transit system. (more)

In a move widely expected to increase the efficiency of cheese distribution on Subway sandwiches, the popular restaurant recently informed workers of a policy requiring the tessellation of the cheese triangles that populate its subs. (more)

Thursday, Metro’s Board of Directors is expected to give final approval of a record 15-percent fare hike – the largest increase in the transit agency’s history. (more)

A four-year push to hook up hundreds of cameras in 32 subway stations has become an embarrassing boondoggle, with a ballooning pricetag and nothing yet to show for it. (more)

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Two men were brutally attacked after a confrontation with fellow customers at a Subway sandwich shop in Fresno. (more)

For years, NYC Transit has wildly underestimated how often riders beat the fare, which cheats the cash-crunched agency out of millions of dollars, the Daily News has learned. (more)

It might not have been too awkward a moment for Batman, who apparently does this sort of thing a lot, but this ‘How to’ video definitely seems to have petrified at least one customer — who takes the opportunity to snap an iPhone picture of the Dark Knight as he chooses what kind of cheese he wants on his sub. (more)

This one was submitted as part of an unsuccessful audition tape to SNL. A couple months after it was postmarked, SNL aired Ben Affleck’s take on Olbermann: (more)

If you were unfortunate enough to miss it, everywhere from New York to Edmonton, London to Mexico City, yesterday was most definitely NO PANTS DAY.  The event was organized by Improv Everywhere, whose stated mission is to bring  ’scenes of chaos and joy in public places.’ And just in case riveting footage of pantsless New Yorkers riding the subway merely whets your appetite,  we’ve got more where that came from all over the world. (more)

In what has to be the crappiest incident on a public sidewalk since some guy was captured by Google Street view literally taking a dumb on H Street (helpfully reproduced below), some poor girl strolls into the wrong place at the wrong time while her mom helpfully videotapes a street performance. Gratuitous shot below the fold. (more)

The woman at the 1:00 mark in this video seems intelligent enough. Then she makes the mistake of opening her mouth and asserting that “there must be a twin conference going on somewhere” as the only explanation for what she’s seeing. Her thought process must’ve gone something like this: (1) Twins have conferences, presumably during which they talk about issues facing twins; (2) Twins act identically at all times; (3) Twins all look alike; (4) It’s a good idea to tell my theory to a guy on the train who’s inexplicably recording me. (more)