[T.B. Yoits]

If they charge the Marine, it will be open season on riders of the New York City subway system. Other riders will ignore beatings or simply record them with their mobile phones.

Women in particular will need to find other means of transportation or else become the next Bernie (Bernadette) Goetz.

The system is already at 1/3 of 2019 ridership and is projecting that it will take to 2035 (or maybe never) to reach 2019 ridership levels.

[Angelino97]

The system is already at 1/3 of 2019 ridership

And a greater percentage of riders are jumping the turnstiles, so paid ridership is below even that 1/3.

[xxqqzz]

It is sort of like Bernie Goetz. If they don’t enforce the law, this sort of thing will happen. That clown pushed someone on to the tracks a couple of days earlier and was let out. You keep seeing incidents like this where people get violent with criminals who are not prosecuted.