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Posted by Newkirk Plaza David on Wed Feb 23 14:02:28 2005, in response to The subway during the 1970's, how bad did it really get?, posted by brooklynQB on Tue Feb 22 15:17:46 2005. I really can add to all these posts about a sorid time in NYC subway history.-When the lights would go out (more frequently on IRT SMEE cars after passing a switch), you expected to be mugged during the 5 seconds of darkness. -People used the exit slam gates to enter the system, more often than the fare paying customers -The graffitti on the R27/30 cars were so bad, you could not see the NYCT paint scheme, not even one square inch. -Half of the cars that were functional had no lighting -My parents and I never rode the subway after 9 PM, every night -The best lines to use were the 7, E and F, just about every year that a survey comes out. The worst were the IRT lines, also every year. -Earplugs were needed on the IRT Lex and 7th Ave lines, you were in danger of going deaf every time an express train whizzed by a local stop, it was THAT loud. -I was really THAT afraid to ride the dreaded A train, not at any time. But in 1985 on the Brighton Line, a buch of 25 youths, without provacation, simply gang robbed a crowded D train at 9:30 PM. I remember that day too well, it was Parkside Ave and my stop to get off. Sad, really sad that these punks have no values their parents taught them. Some may have come from foster homes but to have a life of crime started in their teen years is incomprehensible. - |
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