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Re: A PARK??? Re: Budget Concerns Threaten To Derail Fulton Transit Hub |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Fri Feb 1 01:39:36 2008, in response to Re: A PARK??? Re: Budget Concerns Threaten To Derail Fulton Transit Hub, posted by LuchAAA on Fri Feb 1 01:26:19 2008. "If you had to take the stairs at Parsons/J-E every day, your attitude would be different."Not really. Most days that Iused the station I did take the stairs. But I saw the escalator working. "What I always found to be funny is that the TA has talked about CBTC and automation for years, while not being able to maintain 18th century technology like an escalator running properly." I can put an escalaor in my house and it will work forever, because I don't have a herd of elephants pounding the shit out of it day in and day out and Homer Simpson types pushing the red button for fun and peopler jamming things into the stair tracks. Now, MTA needed to take that into consideration, and if they didn't shame on them. But that doesn't meran evey escalator is out as often as you make it out to be. "I've seen subway stations like 168th A/C lines where 9 out-of-ten machines were out-of-service at once, and for weeks at a time" I've never seen a situation like that, but if you did, I believe you. Ihave seen swipers operating at stations where the vending mahines were out and nine times out of ten it's the swiper who vandalized the machine -soI call the police; the swiper gets arrested and a technician has to open the machines to clear them. The swiper comes back the next morning and tries again. and so on. I admit that sometimes I briefly entertain thoughts that run something like this: if the transit cop beat the shit out of the swiper with his billy club or a "sap" and threw him down a long escalator, then gave him a "nickel ride like Philly PD used to do, the swiper would find some other hobby. I admit that this aspect is wrong thinking and very ugly and I do not advocate it. *A "nickel ride" is when Philly PD make an arrest; the arrestee is an asshole who gives them a lot of lip, resists arrest, gets arrested evety day etc. When the transport van comes to get him, the officers put him, handcuffed behind his back, in the van with no seat belt. As the van drives toward the lockup, the driver jackrabbits out of intersections, goes flying around sharp corners at high speed and slams on the brakes. By the time the van makes it to the lockup, the prisoner has definitely "gotten the message." This practice was stopped in the ladt few years and with good reason. |
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