Posted on 08/29/2016 10:24:14 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Wow!
Other than being wounded and in the hospital(RVN), I have only missed three days of work. Ever!
I didn't always take the train, but when I did it was the early milk run, just after 5AM.
Get in early, relax, read the paper and have some coffee... before I have to function.
Seldom had a problem in the AM.
Coming home, you get used to it.
A train in front, stuck in the snow!!! This ain't Yellowstone! How does that happen? And they run every 20 min!!
That said, sometimes I would drive, I had a parking spot of my own, only walk about 50 ft!
Everyday was a near death experience, if something didn't fall off a truck and crush you or someone else, you could sit for no reason!!!
Worst day, a drug dealer sensing a trap, tossed a large pile of cash off the Cicero Ave bridge on to the expressway. Many ran to scoop some up! I was just out of downtown, out of the money.
I should have stayed downtown!
I was in NY for first time earlier this year. Of course, one of the adventures was to ride the subway....I was shocked how open it was, and how easily someone could fall onto the tracks if they were drunk, weren’t paying attention or suicidal. There is an average of 53 deaths per year at NY subways...
Then I went to China this year, and they have it right...there is a screen between train and offloading station. The subway train stops and matches up with screen automated door. People can’t fall onto the tracks...This set-up is probably common in other countries as well.
I was surprised to see this set-up in New York, know how litigious our society is....
The head looks similar!
Is that him?
Even track lives matter!
Leni
That sign was posted at the station warning people with round black heads not to go on the tracks. He apparently ignored it.
I've lived in NYC all my 50+ years and I agree 100%. It is ridiculous. And with so many stupid people here it is truly incredible that more don't fall onto the tracks. Or, for that matter, get run over by a car.
During dangerously crowded rush hour periods we have people walking along the very edge of the platform trying to make their way to the opposite end. And in rush hour street traffic, texting while they are crossing large busy streets. It really is unbelievable that there aren't more tragedies.
I usually took the 5-5:15am train into the city. That turnaround only happened a few times, when a train had a serious mechanical problem and shut down the northbound lines, down past Trenton, halfway to Philly. Amtrak got priority, ConRail 2nd and NJT last for re-routing, so it depended what train we caught, though the monthly pass was good on all 3, we usually grabbed the first train from Princeton Junction to Penn Sta. Glad I left all that crap in ‘89.
That calls for a shot of fireball on ice :) to celbrate bravery of officer Ortiz.
That’s most, if not how all the subway systems in the us work. I was told its partly tradition, partly because the systems are old and would need a new train control system for each train and platform. Mostly its because Americans don’t push and shove and cram ourselves in like asians do. I used to ride the dc metro during rush hour and past a certain point, everyone would just wait for the next train rather then get their personal space violated to much.
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