Outrage on the Web over NY Post photo capturing subway death

[Razgovory]

Great, not only a bigot but an ill informed one.  What do Hindus have to do with 9-11?

[Syt]

Great, not only a bigot but an ill informed one.  What do Hindus have to do with 9-11?

I'm guessing: They're brown people who don't believe in Baby Jesus?

[The Brain]

Menendez?

[sbr]

Trains don't kill people, people do.

[Josquius]

wow. here I thought this was just a new angle o . the story about the crazy black guy pushing th  Chinese guy. it happened again eh...
pretty scary, the platforms at some of the Tokyo metrostations are tiny an  scary enough

[Liep]

This is a seriously nasty crime. Which is why I really cannot fathom why young people think it's funny to mock shove people when trains are approaching the platform. When I get a good look of the retards I usually make them leave the train if they try and enter.

[garbon]

Watch your back Garbie

Queens?

[Caliga]

Great, not only a bigot but an ill informed one.  What do Hindus have to do with 9-11?

Why are you wasting time trying to rationalize the behavior of some racist lunatic?

[mongers]

This is a seriously nasty crime. Which is why I really cannot fathom why young people think it's funny to mock shove people when trains are approaching the platform. When I get a good look of the retards I usually make them leave the train if they try and enter.

 

Yeah, me neither.

[Zanza]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/29/nyregion/man-pushed-to-his-death-under-train-in-queens.html

From that article:

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said that such attacks were exceedingly rare, but that statistics did not diminish the tragedy for the families of the victims.

"You can say it's only two out of the three or four million people who ride the subway every day, but two is two too many," he told reporters.

"I don't know that there is a way to prevent things," Mr. Bloomberg said. "There is always going to be somebody, a deranged person."

He added: "We do live in a world where our subway platforms are open, and that's not going to change."

Why not? It's not like they didn't change it elsewhere...

[Liep]

Depends on the trains I would imagine, some trains are not meant for precision breaking. Ours have a parking break which takes anywhere from 1 to 3 meters to have the train stop completely (3-5 in cold weather), that'd be hard to match with external doors.

[Zanza]

I am sure that engineers can retrofit precision brakes on trains. It's just a question of whether it is worth it politically.

[Ed Anger]

Nurse Bloomberg is more concerned about super size soft drinks than subway fixes.

[Razgovory]

Great, not only a bigot but an ill informed one.  What do Hindus have to do with 9-11?

Why are you wasting time trying to rationalize the behavior of some racist lunatic?

This is the M.O. I used when your wife was going on about getting rid of fiat money.

[DGuller]

I am sure that engineers can retrofit precision brakes on trains. It's just a question of whether it is worth it politically.

A much more practical problem is that NYC doesn't have a single subway car type.  The same station can be serviced by both 10-car trains of 60 foot cars and 8-car trains of 75 foot cars.  Both 60 foot and 75 foot cars have four doors per side, so 10-car trains have 25% more doors and at different intervals.  That alone would be deal breaker.