The following is a NY Post report:
Some of the most heavily trafficked subway stations in Midtown are plagued by rotting and shaky rubbing boards – the wooden strips at the very edge of the platform – even nine months after an MTA report showed that the dangerous deterioration led to several riders falling onto tracks at other stations, The NY Post reports.
The crumbling conditions can be found on platforms for the downtown F at 34th Street and the uptown B and D at 47-50 Streets/Rockefeller Center – which rank as the third- and 13th most-used stops in the entire system with a combined, estimated 46 million riders every year.
At those stations, the boards are so deteriorated, they’ve separated from the platform, leaving them weak and with hazardous, inch-wide gaps.
The MTA has been scrambling to repair the wooden slats – which mainly prevent damage to subway cars as they bump platform edges – after the agency’s inspector general released a scathing report on other decrepit rubbing boards in April 2009.
The report mentioned a teenage boy who fell onto Q train tracks in Brooklyn after a rubbing board gave way when he stepped on it.
Charles Seaton, a spokesman for NYC Transit, said crews just finished repairing the uptown F line platform’s rubbing boards and started work on the downtown side Saturday.
“The work will take about two to three weeks to finish,” he said.
(Source: NY Post)
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I could have told you this some 30 years ago!!!
Hi Mr. Levin. I cracked up at some of your lines last night. Don’t forget to play the military songs in honor of Bill, Eli’s friend.
They just have to privatize the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Mr. Levin. All of the bus routes and subway routes should be privatized. Then and only then will we get safe and reliable service at a reasonable cost. Otherwise, forget it.