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01-18-2017, 06:20 PM
Gover**r orders subway train redesign, because he thought it looked like a cricket
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Jakarta's 9.6 million people will soon welcome the city's first subway train system — but **t before the trains get a design overhaul.
The reason? Gover**rs thought the train looked "too much like a cricket."
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The city's acting gover**r Sumarso** was reportedly dissatisfied with the insect-like face of the train.*
"When the contractors presented the design, around 90 percent of the people in the meeting said, 'How did we end up with this design?' ** one remembered approving it," he was quoted as saying by the Jakarta Globe (http://jakartaglobe.id/news/it-looks-like-a-cricket-jakarta-acting-gover**r-wants-mrt-trains-to-be-redesigned/). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/18/indonesia-cricket-trains/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Jakarta's 9.6 million people will soon welcome the city's first subway train system — but **t before the trains get a design overhaul.
The reason? Gover**rs thought the train looked "too much like a cricket."
SEE ALSO: All NYC subways stations will finally have Wi-Fi and cell service (http://mashable.com/2017/01/07/wifi-in-ny-subways/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The city's acting gover**r Sumarso** was reportedly dissatisfied with the insect-like face of the train.*
"When the contractors presented the design, around 90 percent of the people in the meeting said, 'How did we end up with this design?' ** one remembered approving it," he was quoted as saying by the Jakarta Globe (http://jakartaglobe.id/news/it-looks-like-a-cricket-jakarta-acting-gover**r-wants-mrt-trains-to-be-redesigned/). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/18/indonesia-cricket-trains/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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