Subway or train riders, have you...... (warning: very sensitive subject)

[BigSteppa]

Never happened to me but my brother saw some cac jump right in front of the train on purpose

 

[sosayeth]

My brother and I saved this drunk/high idiot's life at Lorimer St. or Broadway Station (can't remember which one we were at.) He was on the other side of the tracks, sitting next to some dumb bytch on her phone and all of a sudden stood up and started walking and fell off the edge headfirst onto the tracks.

We were near the end of the platform too, but my brother took off to alert the station attendant and I got off the platform to cross the tracks to get to him (the train wasn't coming at that moment and it was the quickest way) but thought better of it after I got on the tracks and saw the street below.

My brother was able to alert the attendant, but I guess they can't alert the train operators, 'cause moments later a train approached and the driver had no idea what was happening until he saw people on the opposite side (but near the other beginning of the platform) we had told waving their hands at him to stop. Mind you, we're still trying to get this intoxicated idiot off the tracks while the train is approaching.

Oh yeah, and the reason I called the chick on her phone a "dumb bytch" is because she fukking was narrating the whole entire thing to her friend she was talking to. Wasn't even phased and didn't move from her seat to tell anyone what happened. If I hadn't seen him fall, that guy would've been dead.

 

[mattw1313]

The platform on 72nd is way too narrow. Anytime I have to take a train there I wait upstairs until the train pulls in.

I was on a train recently and we stopped. They said they had to investigate because the emergency brake went off. A conductor came through with a flash light looking on the tracks. I was in the last car and he saw something, went back up front, and they announced a fatality. We had to wait a little over an hour before before the train moved.

That platform is ridiculous. Only station besides Lexington on the Q/R/etc that I consistently see so crowded that people are backed all the way up the stairs.

My brother and I saved this drunk/high idiot's life at Lorimer St. or Broadway Station (can't remember which one we were at.

Broadway Junction? You wouldn't be looking at the street below Lorimer

 

[sosayeth]

Broadway Junction? You wouldn't be looking at the street below Lorimer

The JM one is above ground. I think it was at Lorimer. Or it might've even been Flushing Av. It was one of those stations.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

The JM one is above ground. I think it was at Lorimer. Or it might've even been Flushing Av. It was one of those stations.

Yea JM is above ground there and the JM are fast so it will slice you in half

 

[King]

Never, always missed it by a few trains

Happened twice in the last 5 years, always seen the aftermath where everything shuts down

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

i stay way behind that yellow line*

I stay behind everyone period.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

As a southern bruh I’ve never thought about folks committing suicide by jumping in front of a train or that it’s so prevalent. That has to be so fukked up for the operators and it looked like most of the MTA folks were black in the video

anywhere with a subway in a major city people get sketchy. some CAC here pushed an old Asian man into the tracks bout last year. I had just left the station. it took them days to identify old dude and find his family.

 

[Aintnobodystupid]

 

[Unknown Poster]

I remember I was at the G train station at Metropolitan/Lorimer and somebody tried to kill themselves on the tracks. The train stopped and police literally had to talk this lady out of doing it and they drug her away. Made me late to get to LIC.

 

[StretfordRed]

People have suggested platform screen doors which some subway systems do have.


The problem is, we have different train fleets with different door sizes.

Tokyo and London have them. Tokyo is weird as it’s half height and London (Jubilee line) is our most modern rail line and we have them floor to ceiling.

I’m from London and we had the issue of some people being pushed but it’s rare. We have a lot more overground trains running across the whole country so we have more suicides than accidental deaths.

I never go close to the edge as I’m scared of the wind but my girl gets up early and hangs on the edge of the platform and gets annoyed when I’m hanging back. If I ever need to go close to the edge I stand vertical so you can’t push me on the tracks