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Posted by j trainloco on Tue Jan 27 15:54:47 2015, in response to Re: Could the NYC Subway Shutdown have been politically motivated?, posted by Stephen Bauman on Tue Jan 27 11:25:46 2015. What happens at the journey's end? Non-emergency vehicle traffic was banned to assist with snow removal and emergency response.Only surface transportation was on foot. What happened in 2010? Or 2006? Or 2003? People found a way to get home from their subway station. The forecast was for 50 mph winds combined with temperatures in the lower 20's. Those are life threatening conditions unless people are properly dressed. There wasn't a run on arctic clothing. Walkers would have been killed from exposure, as they were during the Blizzard of 1888. It would be negligent for authorities to provide only partial transportation under such conditions. This comment is nonsensical. Anecdotal stories are surfacing suggesting that people walked for hours to reach their destinations. NBC reported that a man said he was going to walk from midtown, across the Williamsburg bridge, to Bushwick. One of my coworkers made a trip from queens to lower Manhattan, mostly on foot. Consider some ordinary underground incidents. What about a broken rails, derailments, smoke conditions, broken water mains, power failures, etc. The ability of emergency services to respond in a timely would be compromised by the snow. Ostensibly, having clear roads would have mitigated this. It wasn't a problem in 2010, 2006 or 2003, when there was no driving ban. The early warning gave people time to plan. Those who had to work on site made made sleeping arrangments. Those who were not deemed essential, suffered that insult at home. Life would continue the day after. What early warning? There was zero indication that subway service would be curtailed until 4pm, far too late for anyone working a 4-12 shift to alter their plans. In fact, midday indications from MTA were that service would, as it had ever other time, continue throughout the storm. The fact remains that, with the exception of a few incidents that occurred in 2010 (which can be attributed to a lack of execution), the subway has demonstrated an exceptional ability to provide some kind of mobility for those who do not have the option of skipping out on work when a storm hits. |
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