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When they were renovating that station, and adding the second entry kiosk, they should have bitten the bullet, and widened the platforms. It's always been very narrow down there.
Doubtful the platform was experiencing major crowding on a Saturday. I feel for the Train Operator who had to go through this.
There is a Trader Joe's at Broadway and 72nd which brings traffic seven days per week.
Two, the 72nd and CPW subway station is closed for construction; thus those going up or down town either must walk down to Columbus Circle or up to 81st (8th Avenue line), or take the Broadway trains.
Am at 72nd and Broadway at least once a week for past several (transfer from express to local or vice versa to reach 81st), and that platform (and staircases for that matter) are all rather narrow. Areas where staircases are located makes things even narrower.
All this being said some media reports give witnesses saying the woman may have fainted/had a medical situation which caused her to slip onto tracks.
Long story short the NYCTA subway system is too vast with many station variations that would make retrofitting stations with platform doors a *HUGE* expense. Money that the MTA just does not have; it is all they can do to find/raise money for planned capital improvements including signal upgrades and so forth.
When they were renovating that station, and adding the second entry kiosk, they should have bitten the bullet, and widened the platforms. It's always been very narrow down there.
How can they widen the platform, they can't shirk the train tracks.
My friend was on the first car when this happened. She heard a woman screaming and when the doors opened saw a person stuck in the space between the train and the platform. My friend could only see her from the waist up; the woman was trying to push the train out of the way to escape but ... sadly it is not possible to push a train out of the way. Must have been gruesome.
I hear that a good portion of the sick passenger incidents are ladies with crazy diets.
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