Links roundup—transit edition (with cats & graffiti)

• The adorable subway Etti-Cat. [Copyranter]
• Transit authorities having boring names. [The Transportationist]
• The people who steal transit buses. [The Atlantic Cities]
• MTA, the collection agency.  [NY Daily News]
• MTA, tunnel digger and possible sci-fi set producer.  [Gothamist]
• MTA gets more revenues, less traffic.  [NY Post]
• MTA to introduce public art app. [NYT Arts Beat Blog]
• Secret and subversive subway art. [Salon]
• Scenes from a subway shutdown. [WSJ Metropolis Blog]
• Vintage photos of trains in and around New York City. [Railfan Window Blog]
• More fighting about transit on the new TZ bridge. [Transportation Nation]
• Boat crashes into Brooklyn Bridge. [WSJ Metropolis Blog] [Gothamist]
• Bad transit condemns much of Ohio’s growing urban poor to dependency. [StreetsBlog]
• Boston transit riders would prefer higher fares over service cuts. [WBUR]
• Saving Detroit’s public transit through privatization. [The Atlantic Cities]