Celebrating the semicolon in a most unlikely location

NY Times article about a perfectly placed semicolon in, of all places, the subway.

In terms of punctuation, semicolons signal something New Yorkers rarely do. Frank McCourt, the writer and former English teacher at Stuyvesant High School, describes the semicolon as the yellow traffic light of a “New York sentence.” In response, most New Yorkers accelerate; they don’t pause to contemplate.

True, very true.