Metra billboard sparks grim interpretation on social media
Posted September 27, 2022 1:00 am
For nearly three decades, millions of gridlocked motorists inching along the Ohio Street feeder ramp toward the Kennedy Expressway have glanced up to see a Metra billboard proclaiming: “Take the easy way out.”
The idea that anyone would associate the sign with suicide never entered the consciousness of the commuter rail agency.
That changed on Monday when a user of the social media site Reddit posted a photograph of the sign in a forum along with a note that read: “Should've thought this through a bit harder.”
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