Comments on: Sick Passenger Terminates 2 Line

By: mindflex game review

mindflex game review — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:26:01 +0000

thank you for the compliment.

By: AM

AM — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:26:43 +0000

You are one miserly New Yorker. I’ve lived here my whole life, and it’s tough to find someone as self-centered, mean and vindictive as you are about riding the subways.

By: Haze

Haze — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:23:02 +0000

You know what…. I’m so sick and tired of hearing the following message every other Monday on the 5 line “We are delayed because of a sick passenger”. Why is it only on Monday’s? We are not delayed any other day due to a sick passenger. Either, we are being fed some bs or there is one passenger who only gets sick on Monday’s (highly unlikely).

By: baby shower wording

baby shower wording — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:26:06 +0000

Just wondering how sick was that passenger? Perhaps there should have better solution for the person in charge on the duty, instead of just kicking out all the passengers out from the train. It’s really a BIG mess, but sometimes this really cannot be avoided. What to do? Get a car then!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:36:11 +0000

You should try riding the subway in the UK. Throwing up is almost compulsory after 11pm. But seriously, over here if someone throws up it just means a less than comfortable ride for the remainder of the journey.
This kind of wussy attitude by your health and safety people is worrying. Thin edge of the wedge people..

By: PR

PR — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:01:30 +0000

Add my vote for “Get the damn sick passenger off the train and let’s get moving.” In the years I’ve ridden the E, V/R, and F trains daily, these posts are the first comments I’ve heard calling the old “sick passenger delay” acceptable. I always hear cries of “roll him off the train so we can get to work!” and I have no shame in agreeing.

By: Murray Hill

Murray Hill — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:31:22 +0000

Along the same lines: why does the rush hour have to grind to a halt when some klutz falls under a train? I say they should leave them there until after the rush. They ain’t gonna get any more deader!

By: Shawna

Shawna — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:26:55 +0000

Aw, be a little more empathetic. I’m sure the sick passenger thought the exact same thing about better methods.

By: Emprice-Sario

Emprice-Sario — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:04:16 +0000

Hmm. As I understand the frustration, I can’t understand where the self-ishness comes from. Don’t get me wrong, I’m pretty sure most of us on here are True, Subway riding New Yorkers, but as you know, this is New York, and things happen here due to the high population and people being packed in a tin can like sardines. Someone’s bound to spit up, but we need to be human-like and have some sympathy, if nothing else.

Friendly Brooklynite.

By: Tania

Tania — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:07:22 +0000

As someone who rides the subway a lot and cares enough about it to have a blog, you can’t be stupid enough to not figure this one out. Trains are lined up a certain distance apart, especially at prime hours. When one train runs late, it’s passed down the line. Sick passenger, jumper, derailing, something caught in the doors, etc. All the same result.

I had a teacher die once on a school trip while we were on the subway. Part of the reason why it took so long to get the N going again (about 45 minutes) was because it took that long to get him off the train (safely), get emergency crews on to the train, etc. It’s not always as simple as “Sweet, the guy is dead…roll him off the train so we can get to work!”

By: Millard F. Mann

Millard F. Mann — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:43:35 +0000

There is always the question of what precipitated the illness. If it was related to a criminal act and the person was left at a platform while the train took off again, it could make apprehending the offender problematic. Or even dangerous if there was some desire to get rid of a witness.

You can be sure that if something like that happened, the heat the MTA and others would take would make getting someone late to work something they would rather life with a hundred times over. And so would the riders, I would think.

So I guess it’s one of those things like better to err on the side of caution. I don’t like it either but the idea that the person who caused the initial illness might have followed them off the train at the next stop is unpleasant to think about.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:28:10 +0000

The happened to me at the 96th Street Station (on the Number 6 Line) about 2 weeks ago.

From what I observed, the train (that I had just boarded) was terminated because the conductor had to remain with the injured/sick passenger until medical attention arrived — and the train would not have been able to remain in service without a conductor.

Ben

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:21:10 +0000

Sometimes “sick passenger” is a euphemism for someone who jumped or fell on the tracks and was hit by a train. For obvious reasons, that track is taken out of service for a little while, and It takes longer to get trains rerouted and resume normal service.

By: The SUBWAYblogger

The SUBWAYblogger — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:57:14 +0000

@VLM: Why thank you for the compliment.

By: VLM

VLM — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:48:37 +0000

You are one miserly New Yorker. I’ve lived here my whole life, and it’s tough to find someone as self-centered, mean and vindictive as you are about riding the subways.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:15:09 +0000

I was on the 3 just before 42nd when the announcement came. They told us it was someone in Brooklyn, and then when I got to Chambers (my stop), the 3 was going on the 1 line to South Ferry. Nothing seemed amiss at Chambers. So I wonder what really happened.