Some of the new trains coming will be one long, continuous car. Complete equality whether it be threats of crime, odor or non-functioning AC.
Since he committed a crime can he now be removed from office? That would be wonderful.
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Cuomo's MTA finally -- after much prodding by advocates -- is following the rest of the world and purchasing open gangway cars. Moving between cars shouldn't be illegal or dangerous. And the open gangways mean each train will fit more people.
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At one time we were actually asked to move between cars. Riding the 1 train towards Battery Park/South Ferry, if you wanted to get off you had to be in the first few (three or four, I think) cars. There was an announcement that anyone wishing to get off at South Ferry had to be in the forward cars. The most amazing thing was that we could actually understand the announcement. The platform was too short to accommodate the rest of the cars. We were visiting and not too familiar with the subway system at that time but I don't think there were rules against such moves at the time.
What happens in the event of a terrorist attack on the subway? It's astonishing how ill-prepared we are for such a possibility.
Yeah, so in the 70's and 80's no or little AC, with the doors between cars frequently open, riders standing in the passage to catch the breeze and moving freely back and forth between cars, looking for a working AC. The only way to keep your sanity to go from GCT to Wall Street.
I've ridden subways on my own for five decades. I have dodged sexual predators, malodorous-in-the-extreme passengers and pistol-wielding teenagers by moving from one car to the next. Gene Russianoff should represent the New York straphangers more realistically. And when I visualize a bomb going off in the subway, I have always thought about how I might survive, God willing, by moving from one smoky damaged car to another. We need the ability to move from one car to the next. Gene Russianoff and the Straphangers Campaign should be on our side.
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In the late 1950s, my mother, who wore white gloves to work and carried a perfectly folded Journal-American, got onto the F train when the doors were blocked solid by passengers, by stepping directly onto the little platform between the cars. She held my hand and took me too.
Later, the MTA put chains there; and the days of getting onto the subway car via, so to speak, the back door, were over.
But now it's illegal to walk through the cars. In order to escape unpleasantness in one car, we have to wait for the next stop and sprint into the next. So be it.
Later, the MTA put chains there; and the days of getting onto the subway car via, so to speak, the back door, were over.
But now it's illegal to walk through the cars. In order to escape unpleasantness in one car, we have to wait for the next stop and sprint into the next. So be it.
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Isn't it against the law to trap people without any emergency exits? That HAS to be against the fire codes. People need to be able to escape in the event of an emergency. The MTA isn't exactly quick to respond to emergencies. People are going to die because of the locked doors.
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What? They have air-conditioned trains? I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you! Ever ride the #1 Broadway Local in summer? It's akin to a summer's day in Bangalore.
Is there anyone who was a kid in New York and never rode between the cars? I haven't been a kid in a long time, but I still remember the noise and the wind and the mild thrill of doing something illicit. And the escape from the heat -- you young whippersnappers who complain about the state of the subway should have been around before the trains were air conditioned!
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Compare this minor infraction by the Mayor with the daily and massive scale of infractions by inconsiderate, rude and entitled passengers :
jumping turnstiles
sleeping on benches on subway platforms or inside subway cars
stockpiling mountains of personal belongings on subway platforms
urinating and defecating between subway cars and on subway platforms or stairways
using vulgar language
blocking doors and passageway inside cars with oversize objects such as bicycles and baby strollers
Please provide more balanced reporting about the subway system that millions of area residents use daily
jumping turnstiles
sleeping on benches on subway platforms or inside subway cars
stockpiling mountains of personal belongings on subway platforms
urinating and defecating between subway cars and on subway platforms or stairways
using vulgar language
blocking doors and passageway inside cars with oversize objects such as bicycles and baby strollers
Please provide more balanced reporting about the subway system that millions of area residents use daily
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Gotta love those "bike riders" clogging up the car with their bikes. Uh, if you're riding a bike, why are you and the bike on the subway?
because NYC is the ONLY major city in this nation that does not have bike racks on the buses and because riding the train is a lot faster than biking when you live in one borough and are gong to another. Don't be daft.
Before I read this I'll say for mayor ( de Blasio), rank has its privilegesā¦ But yeah keep cutting infrastructure funding so that a few rich people can benefit up in TT,The gaudy gold plated castle. And being from a former 415 area code area I still haven't gotten used to the 650 area codeā¦ 10 years or so later!
It's a stupid rule and does nothing to crack down on crime. I do it whenever the spirit moves me, including when the car I'm in is hot or crowded or I'm being assaulted by the worst most incompetent "musicians" on the planet.
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I know DeBlasio rode the subway while he was a city councilman, I saw his few times on the train from brooklyn. ........... The subway is the way to get around NYC. The problem is years of neglet has got us to this point. It is going to take years fo fix things, but it has to Start NOW!
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In the 80's service was SO bad that during morning rush hour on the #1 knots of people would stand together at specific spots on the platform. When the train finally arrived it was packed to the brim. Those spots on the platform was where the "in between cars" was - and the only space available. Although still crowded, the riders already there lifted the gate for us and we piled on. In the winter it was freezing and in the summer sweltering, but since all the AC was broken anyway, at least we had a breeze.
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Mayor de Blasio is so out of touch with the lives of New Yorkers. It's no wonder he doesn't care about the subway; he hasn't ridden it with any regularity since the 90s!
I'll ride the subway every day--as I do now--if I'm elected in November.
I'll ride the subway every day--as I do now--if I'm elected in November.
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Moving between subway cars wasn't always "against the rules". That's a relatively recent change. Signs posted on the end doors used to prohibit riding between cars, i.e., standing in one place, not moving between cars.
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I'm wondering if the mayor stands clear of the moving platforms as trains entah and leave the station.
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Sorry, but all elected officials in New York should be forced to ride the subway and face the vicissitudes of its performance.
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DeBlasio riding the subway is about as credible as Bloomberg's claims that he rode the subway. If DeBlasio actually did ride the subway recently, you can be guaranteed it was for a photo op. I ride the subway every day, as do most of my co-workers, and not one of them ever said they'd seen DeBlasio or Bloomberg on the subway. Enough with the lies; we're sick of them.
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Glad the MTA can find time to make moving between cars illegal. Guess that's easier than actually doing something to improve the third-world NYC subway system.
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Meanwhile, American continues to lead the 3rd world with the worst mass transit systems in the world.
Heckuva job, Tax-Cut-Troopers....way to keep destroying America's common good so a few people can get a new yacht.
"Let them eat dirt !"
Heckuva job, Tax-Cut-Troopers....way to keep destroying America's common good so a few people can get a new yacht.
"Let them eat dirt !"
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What precisely happened on that F train? The train couldn't take power between stations? Times please follow up and get an explanation from the TA.
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You can't do that any more. Now, the front wall is a blank panel of steel. I think something has been lost in the pursuit of greater safety for the riders and the engineer in the front cab.
I bet de Blasio used to stare out the front when he was a kid...