Posted on 08/21/2020 3:58:32 PM PDT by karpov
A spate of over 400 smashed subway windows in four months has the MTA on the verge of a glass shortage, transit officials said Friday.
“We had a reserve of glass when this wave started in May. We’ve run through the reserve,” MTA spokesman Tim Minton said of the rash of vandalism.
Since May 14, transit workers have reported 31 separate instances of broken windows on the 7 train, internal records obtained by The Post show.
Smashed windows have also turned up on the 2 and 3 trains, MTA safety exec Pat Warren said — costing the agency more than $300,000 so far.
“While there’s vandalism across the system at any given day or time, this recent rash of windows appears to be consolidated in a couple of lines,” Warren told The Post.
“With the MTA being in the financial condition it’s in, that is not a worthwhile thing for us to be putting money towards.”
Video posted from last Saturday shows cracked glass on a succession of doors and windows on a 7 train in Queens. The MTA said 39 individual windows were destroyed in the incident.
The glass-smashing has led to 61 train cancellations and over five hours in cumulative train delays, according to MTA records.
“Any train that’s broken, it has to be taken out of service,” Warren explained.
“That means that at any given time in the short term, our customers are going to be short a train, which means they’re going to have more crowded conditions.”
Officials warned more service impacts could be coming due to delays in acquiring replacement glass.
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Can’t they use Plexiglass?
There would be a one time expense of making a few thousand of them, but they would be more durable than glass.
The 2 is always packed—well, too packed for me anyway, since it comes from farther up. The 3 is fine. The 1 is almost always empty—New Yorkers like to move fast.
Covid riding.
We were stuck next to the deserted 93rd Street station on the 1 tonight though. Thought we would never move. That hasn’t happened to me in the year plus I’ve been riding the trains again, until tonight. Used to happen all the time.
SMASHED WINDOWS DON’T MATTER.
Cardboard and duct tape are cheap. It’s only that Democrat sh&thole NYC, after all.
There’s nothing worse than being on a stuck train. I haven’t ventured onto the 6 since lockdown...trying to walk everywhere. Be careful and stay safe, FRiend.
I know a ‘Native American’ who referred to that as “Navajo air conditioning”.
Foo.
If the foo sh1ts, wear it.
self-defeating gangsters
train cars that have to be taken out of service just mean poorer transit service for themselves (as well as everyone else stuck in NYC, of course)
self-defeating gangsters
train cars that have to be taken out of service just mean poorer transit service for themselves (as well as everyone else stuck in NYC, of course)
No big deal, they are continually losing money anyway. Luckily, Genocide Cuomo (not Fredo) will institute a wealth tax to cover the broken windows.
Or is the Soros DA not prosecuting MTA window-breakers as well?
The 2&3 from Brooklyn to Harlem and the 2 heads further north
The math works out to be $8,333.33 per window. Once again, I find myself in the wrong business. I’m thinking I’m being bullshitttted again.
Hopefully that $8k+ per window includes lost income for when the train is down. But perhaps not.
Yup. That’s the NYC I was working in. The NYC subway system had the distinction of being the worlds biggest underground toilet.
The entire system stank of urine from one end to the other.
These mutants aren’t taking the trains to work; they are just odd things used by “others”.
If you see some of the areas in Newark NJ that weren’t rebuilt after the riots 50+ years ago, they look like post-colonial Africa; nobody fixes or maintains anything, and weeds sprout up everywhere as nature reclaims the land.
Let NYC go the same way; stop replacing the windows. It will sort itself out.
What a shame! Our political system has a serious flaw to allow/facilitate the destruction of our society. ——- “ Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.“
H.L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy
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