NEW YORK — A Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee is in intensive care at a Brooklyn hospital after being struck by a subway train early today (Thursday, June 6).
WABC-TV reports the 64-year-old man, serving as a flagger for a group of four other workers performing track inspections, was hit by an out-of-service northbound F train near the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets station just after midnight. He was hospitalized at Bellevue Hospital with head trauma. The injured employee has served as a track worker for six years, the New York Post reports.
“The employee is responsive,” Demetrius Crichlow, New York City Transit senior vice president, Department of Subways, told reporters. “He opens his eyes, but that’s probably the extent of his communications at this point.” Crichlow is set to become NYC Transit interim president as of next week [see “New York City Transit President Davey selected …,” Trains News Wire, May 29, 2024].
The incident is under investigation.
Wonder if Gov. Kathy will, now that she has launched an existential threat to his employer, decide she needs a photo op to prove she is still transit-friendly and visits the grievously injured man while he is still hospitalized.
Hope this poor man recovers quickly and can resume a normal life.
So, Mark, you and I are both pro-transit, meaning both of us are in favor of heavily subsidized transit. Where to find the money? I simply don’t know. Doesn’t help that transit ridership has plummeted at the same time that costs are skyrocketing.
Difference between us, Mark, is this: I’m opposed to an unconstitutional fiat tax. Which is what the congestion fee would be if implemented. Governor Kathy (and her kind nationwide) will need to find a funding stream for transit that falls within the bounds of the rule of law. Because at some point, the federals will cut back on printing money to cover the state and local expenses that the states and localities can’t raise on their own.
How to pay for transit in a nation going rapidly broke? I don’t have the answer. Neither do Governor Kathy, Gavin Nuisance, Mayor Pete, nor Dementia Joe. So I’m not alone.
The only idea I do have is to cut out the Mickey Mouse (like Milwaukee’s inane trolley) and concentrate on the big picture, like the Frederick Douglass and Gateway Tunnels. A succession of Milwaukee’s urbanist mayors have pushed for “transit” without any idea how to make it happen. So what’s the result? A silly trolley that goes nowhere, that almost nobody rides despite it being free, because even fewer people would pay to ride it if there were a fare. If the trolley were crushed-loaded (instead of empty) it would cover a negligible percentage of the Metro’s transportation passenger-miles, too small to measure.