The latest issue of Metro-North mouthpiece Mileposts addresses, in light-hearted language, the matter of people taking their shoes off on the train. Mileposts‘ “Courtesy Corner” always admonishes, in a jokey way, its riders to be more considerate of fellow passengers. The July installment mentions how “foot troubles” did not exist in Biblical times, when people opted to walk around barefoot.

But alas, those days are long gone. “And that means you should keep your shoes on, and keep your feet off the seats when traveling on our trains….It’s the courteous thing to do, freeing up another seat for a fellow commuter and keeping our trains from smelling like a 2,000 year old locker room at the Coliseum.”

In other Mileposts news, the Harlem line continues to hurtle toward world domination, winning the May On-Time race with a 98.6% rate (”On-time” is of course defined as arriving within six minutes of the scheduled time–about as much time as is required to make one quite late.)

Perhaps the bigger story is the race for second. The dreaded New Haven line, home of the hapless catenary wires, pulled ahead of one-time Metro-North darlign Hudson, 98.3% to 97.4%.