Imagine my surprise...

No more Q train from the 1960s, 70s?  I don't know what decade the old Q trains are from but this morning, a brand new train came and picked me up to take me to Manhattan today...I did a complete double-take and I watched the straphangers at Church Ave do the same thing.  No one was expecting this shiny train with announcements made slowly and clearly.

I mean, this thing was so new and clean you could have eaten off the floor.  Ok, maybe not but if you had to pick a train to eat off the floor, this one would be up there. 

Or perhaps the MTA must have heard it was my birthday today and felt like replenishing my confidence in their improvements to the subway infrastructure.  It's especially strange since Governor-by-Accident David Patterson gave a speech last night on TV announcing the pending financial disaster known as New York City.  

I guess that means that our trains are going into the 21st Century but the rest of New York is going back to the 1970s?  That probably means that the subways won't be safe to ride any more...It'll be a damn shame for all those shiny new trains.