In most cases - well more than two-thirds - people ended up on the tracks voluntarily. (Though with pushes to the tracks comprising three of last year’s 10 subway murders, a 30-year high, a small percentage is too many.) Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty ImagesĪn even smaller percentage was assaults - that is, people being pushed to the tracks. Two teenagers have died in the past four months participating in the dangerous stunt. What’s going on? Of 1,365 known subway-track incidents in 2022 (most of which didn’t end in death), about 15% were accidental falls or medical emergencies, a new MTA analysis finds.Ī thankfully surprisingly low number - fewer than 10% - was suicides or suicide attempts. In fact, it’s startling the number of deaths underground could even begin to rival the number of deaths above ground, where unlicensed and drunk drivers speed and take fast turns. The goal below ground, just as the “Vision Zero” traffic-death campaign above ground, should be no deaths. Last year’s 88 track deaths were 35% above the 20 averages - 65 each year.įor context, 120 pedestrians died above ground last year in crashes with cars or trucks, close to the average of 121 in 20. In a functional city, rail transit is the safest form of moving from one place to another.īut as with everything else in New York in the past three years, things went awry. It’s a little-remarked element of our post-2020 era of disorder and chaos.Ī poorly secured transit system presents an acute danger to New York’s most vulnerable citizens, including people suffering from addiction and mental illness. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority had distressing news last week: Deaths on subway-train tracks soared in 2022, to 88. Kathy Hochul’s quixotic budget quest shows the system isn't workingĮric Adams' police deal borrows a bad de Blasio habitĭemocrats putting transit in total chaos days before NY state budget due Beaten on the bus? Too bad, say NYC police and prosecutorsīiden's approach to crisis: make too-big-to-fail banks even bigger
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