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MTA wants to light up tunnels with ads

Straphangers will no longer be staring out into pitch darkness in the subway tunnels next year if the MTA gets its way and is able to sell projected video ads along the Shuttle train route.

Facing a nearly $1 billion budget gap next year, the tunnel projections are just one in a series of ideas the Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to offer to boost advertising revenues by 25 percent,...

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