• thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    What the actual fuck. This will just make everybody's experience taking the train worse without doing anything to stop it. 80% of the time the metal detectors won't work and the other 20% they'll beep when somebody tries to bring a bike on the train and cops will make them go off when they see a "suspicious person" to get an excuse to give them a pat down.

    Adams won't spend any money on elevators or platform screen doors to stop people being pushed in front of the trains, but somehow we have the money for metal detectors that nobody asked for? What a fucking joke.

    • VHS [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      How the hell will this even work at all with the throughput required of the subway? Metal detectors will stop everyone with a laptop, a camera, etc. I don't think having that many TSA screeners would be logistically possible.

        • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          You'll have to drive! Or get a taxi/uber. Or you're just completely fucked I guess because NYC can't handle the throughput of all those transit pedestrians changing to cycling or being in a car.

      • sonartaxlaw [undecided,he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Its not, if they try to do this it will literally grind the entire city to a halt, some people may accept showing up to their subway stop an hour early but most will either get a car or quit their jobs and neither possibility is compatible with the cities function

    • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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      3 years ago

      platform screen doors to stop people being pushed in front of the trains

      Does this ever actually happen?