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Vancouver Would Be Cooler If We Had Skytrain Etiquette Penned By Poets

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(via) London’s poets have been invited to participate in a new campaign to improve passenger etiquette on the Tube. We think that would our poets should be entreated to do the same for the SkyTrain, where basic civility long ago went to die. The new UK initiative, dubbed Travel Better London, also invites passengers to come up with their own poems and submit them to a blog. The winning work will be turned into a poster and featured throughout the city’s vast transportation network. Dig this Chivalry Haiku:

Small clouds of grey suits
Part To Make Way For Tired Mum
Wheeling Red Buggy

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  1. Hey Michael. What was it like directing De Niro and Pacino in the same picture?

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