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I saw the pics (which I wish I hadn't) and just those made me sick to my stomach remembering all the times I've been at this station. I can't believe how it must been for the witnesses on the platform and on the street. Thank god this didn't cause an accident... raining body parts could have fallen on cars in the intersection below. Terrible on every level!
This is getting worse, why doesn't the MTA do something about this? Do we have to have a population drop from train suicides before they take measures?
A co-worker and I often ask why there aren't any barriers between platforms and trains. The doors on the barriers should only open when trains pull into the stations. Can you imagine what it would cost to install these on every subway line and at every stop? You don't hear about this too often. You hear more about people jumping on the tracks to save their phones.
It would cost a lot to install barriers, but Paris and other world cities have had them for a while. Somehow the money came from somewhere. Mayor Bloomberg is about to spend billions protecting the city from rising levels; which is necessary but what about this? Even people who aren't suicidal are jumping onto tracks for cell phones, which is admittedly lacking common sense but subway safety is becoming a growing issue now.
I remember a report in the NY Times after the Oklahoma tornado that said many structures didn't have basements or adequate tornado shelters because it "would have cost to much money to install them" Seriously? That's just not right.
All those Yuppies who live in Astoria and depend on the N train for mobility are going to be upset. I can never forget the time when a guy jumped in front of the 6 train at 3 avenue station some years ago. I remember when the medical examiners or something like that took pieces of body parts and put them into a white bag. Next day the tracks still had blood on it and MTA workers used sand to suck up and dry the blood on the tracks.
There's still sand on the tracks at the 40th street station from when someone got pushed onto the tracks a few months ago. It's almost like a tourist attraction when I have people come visit.
Apparently your reading limit of posts from a thread hovers right around ONE
In the title of the thread you refer to him as a "jerk".
Near where I live, a young 18-year-old male, weeks from graduating from high school, recently stepped in front of an uncoming train and made no attempt to move out of the way. He struggled with depression for a long time, apparently.
This happened in front of many horrified witnesses at the train station and they will never be able to get that image out of their minds.
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