JTN: Amid a crime wave in New York City, including five people last month being pushed onto subway tracks, officials have installed doors on some waiting platform to protect passengers.
The doors, at three stations, will create a barrier between the platform and the track to prevent people from falling or being pushed onto the tracks.
The announcement of the plan Wednesday by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority follows a major uptick in violence at subway stations across the city, including a woman being killed last month when a homeless, mentally ill man pushed her in front of an oncoming train.
During the first six months of 2021, 47 people died after getting struck by a train, according to the MTA.
Officials acknowledge the difficulties facing the program, considering its cost and how it can be integrated into the aging and busiest subway system in the country, with pre-pandemic numbers reaching nearly 6 million rides a day. more
Long overdue..very long overdue. Only our government could stall off on this long of a delay on a safety issue of this size.
If I worked for a company that told me I was being transferred to NYC I’d quit.
Yes, this will keep people from being pushed in front of a train, but it does nothing to actually address the problem. This treats the symptom, not the disease
The truth is, a certain portion of our population needs to be locked up, or else we’ll keep living in a jungle.
Just put up signs that say:
Due to animals, vomit, feces and bum-piss, abandon all hope ye who enter here!
Eliminate the root cause. End the open air insane asylum.
de Blasio would have blamed riders for standing too close to the tracks.
Break the next couple fuckers that pull that stunt on a Katherine Wheel inTimes Square and the shit will stop yesterday.
The people who are doing the pushing probably aren’t paying to ride and wouldn’t even be on the platform if they were kept out of the station at the turnstiles. Maybe paying more attention to those barriers would make it unnecessary to build cattle pens for good people.
If you let scum jump the gates and subsidize scum riders, you end up awash in scum.
What’s wrong with tossing New Yorkers in front of trains?
The subway hasn’t changed in 125 years. The inhabitants have.