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3. I always find myself constructing a platform barrier in my head

Reply to Coventina (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 07:17 PM

Mar 27

...that retracts when the train is stopped and loading, rises back in place when the doors close.

Silly me. It just seems so barbaric and archaic to have that unobstructed drop.

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NYC subway rider is fatally pushed onto tracks, reviving discussion about mental illness in system [View all] Coventina Mar 27 OP

Seems like there is a violent subway incident in NYC nearly every week. MichMan Mar 27 #1

Send him to the mental institution. SarahD Mar 27 #2

I always find myself constructing a platform barrier in my head bigtree Mar 27 #3

Too many people are being harmed and killed by those JI7 Mar 27 #4