NyPo reports:
Subway riders are being squashed together on increasingly crowded trains, new data revealed Monday — and lack of basic manners getting in and out of cars is contributing to a spike in delays.
Weekday trains experienced overcrowding delays a staggering 14,843 times in December — the most recent month for which data were available.
That is a 113 percent increase from a year earlier.
“I’ve seen children crushed,” said Bronx rider Ansley Davenport, who added she’s witnessed riders chide parents for bringing kids on the train during rush hour.
She said she regularly has to let two crowded trains pass at the 14th Street station before she can board a train home to Pelham Parkway.
“My commute to work is consistently a half-hour or even longer than necessary, because they refuse to run enough [No.] 2 trains at rush hour. My train uptown home often takes 15 minutes or more to arrive at rush hour. When it does, it’s often too crowded to get on.”
And the problem isn’t just during workdays.
Weekend trains were delayed in reaching the end of the line 2,314 times because of overcrowding in December, a 146 percent spike from 941 during that month in 2013.
It is time to return the subway sustem to private industry.
Another reason why I prefer to use my own vehicle over public transportation. However for the record I dont like in the city
ReplyDeleteI do, too, especially if I have to go food shopping at specialty stores and my favorite butcher, but it's gotten progressively more and more aggravating to use a car in New York City, not that it was every really easy or convenient.
DeleteConsider:
1. Herr Bloomberg's blocking of major thoroughfares to create urban parks and sitting areas ala Herald Square outside of Macy's
2. Constriction of the right-of-ways in lower Manhattan to create bicycle only lanes, where roads are already excessively narrow.
3. Lack of on-street parking throughout the five boroughs.
4. Exorbitant private garage fees throughout Manhattan.
5. Generally poorly-maintained condition of pavements throughout. Embarrassingly slow rate of repairs and new construction.
6. Grossly-obsolete and undersized bridges and tunnels leading in and out of Manhattan to New Jersey, Queens, Brooklyn, etc.
Ha! I get it. Look at all those people staggering!
ReplyDeleteJust keep cramming and stuffing the NY progressives in there! Haha
ReplyDeletelol...that's pretty funny!
Delete+1 to you.
They helped make their bed, now they can lay in it.
True. All these heinous state aggressions are falling squarely on the shoulders of people who demand ever more of them. Raising the question of whether libertarians should be fighting so hard, taking so many arrows, and suffering so mightily.
DeleteArguably we should secure safe-havens in ruling-class sheltered coves, speak the truth which everyone will revile us for, then sit back and applaud escalating state deprivations as just desserts.