You stick with that then. Your judgments will correspondingly carry little weight.
and you're the judge of people's reactions in this thread?
Do these stations not have some sort of emergency alarm button? I would think that would work alot better than trying to "signal the driver" with camera flashes.
MTA don't even have money to fund their repairs man.
90 seconds is more than enough time to run to the end of the track and use the ladder. I'm sure panic played a role and possible intoxication or being stunned from falling onto the track in the first place. Pusher is a coward.
the train was already covering the emergency ladder as it was pulling in.
I suppose if he had just laid down flat on the ground he would have survived?
each station in NYC MTA is different, one may have a gap like that but not others.
fixed for you.
I was there yesterday. I was going to work from Brooklyn to Manhattan and usually I take the D train which leaves me closer to my job but I had missed it and took the N instead.
I was in the station a few minutes just gathering myself (don't ask me why)which leaves me at 49th street station.
I didn't see the actual moment he got hit (I was on the uptown platform) but did see the people scrambling. then I heard "oh shit!" "oh my god" etc. the thing is, you ride the trains long enough you know when they are coming, the air gets a bit cooler, you feel the wind.
and sometimes if there are workers on the tracks trains roll into stations slow. but no such luck this time.
the 49th street station has a bit of a gap in the middle of the track floor where someone small could
MAYBE fit. but that's doubtful.
you could also run until the train stops giving yourself precious seconds, but it isn't a flat floor, it has gaps from the train tracks so you'd be doing an obstacle course.
you can't go on the sides either, not a big enough gap at this station. there is an emergency ladder but it's at both ends of the platform. the train already blocked one, the other is 5-600 feet (200 Meters) away at the other end. your only chance is to run to the gap in between the uptown/downtown platform and hold on to the light/signal switches are which the transit workers do all the time.
but you have seconds to do this. or hope someone alerts the subway token booth clerk and he can maybe signal ahead. I saw this at Brook Avenue(#6 train) in the Bronx. luckily that stations like all numbered train stations has a timer which tells you how long until the next train arrives. the letter lines except for the L train do not have this. (again MTA is broke)