Ok well I rode since 2000 which is still 20 years ago now. So get over your 80s they sucked and it sucks now who gives a shit gramps. The point is your 80s are back.

Stupid article

I've noticed the swaying on NJT's double deckers, but you can always sit on the lower level.

I only bring that up because the comment you originally replied to was lamenting about the Manhattan DA who charged the bodega worker for acting in self-defense, making your comment seem like this is just yet another example of Manhattan DA incompetence, when by reading the article it's clear it's not that at all.

To answer your second question, there's no guarantee I suppose, but if you read the link you sent, the Bronx DA (who is not in favor of the NY Supreme Court's ruling) said the guy has already been sentenced to 25 to life as part of the second degree murder conviction, and is also charged with conspiracy and gang assault on top of that. Those seem like appropriate charges to me, given what I know, and I expect the total charges will likely extend his sentence to the maximum.

Do you sincerely think that the average person doesn’t trust the police to stop violent attacks such as this one? Also, I think MTA bouncers would be useless because we already have a government body to protect citizens and aid those in danger: the police.

I really hope situations like this (involving violent teens) don’t occur again. However, the reality is that they likely will, and the average citizen can’t help the victim because society would penalize them for attacking a “kid”.

I feel so bad for the victims in these particular situations. Especially this innocent teenager here.

I think it would balance itself out eventually. I also think it would bring rent prices down.

I edited it from City to State, but it doesn't matter. Its the same political machine that put those state judges there and made this determination.

Also with 25 years to life who is to say they will actually get life with the lessor sentence?

This was like an everyday thing (and I’m sure it’s still an everyday thing) back in HS - Brandeis on 84th. Dominicans used to go around the hallway hitting black folks; black folks used to go around hitting Dominicans. Probably worst uptown, what GWs? 🤷‍♂️

So? More than 60% of trains aren't going to GCM. More than 70% probably shouldn't be. As far as I know, that leaves a safe margin of 40% for extra repairs, issues with the cars, etc. If the fleet was that bad to begin with, then that's the issue, not the GCM tunnel. People are just using the outrage about misallocation to GCM to surface other debates.

This is not the issue. It's common to deal with loading gauge mismatches when you have multiple models on multiple lines. The A and B subway divisions aren't fully compatible. Countries across the world deal with this, even the ones who do it right.

The appellate division of the New York Supreme Court vacated the first degree murder conviction, so no, it was not the city... Again, did you read what you linked?

No one is debating whether or not this was an awful crime. You seem to be mixing up the Manhattan DA with NY state law. The city didn't reduce anything.

I'm sorry but you just got insanely lucky. I've personally witnessed sleeping people getting pickpocketed on the train during the time period you mentioned, multiple times.

Imagine they find out that the lettered line subway cars do not fit in tunnels and stations for numbered lines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxA8vTd2VnQ

They dragged this poor kid out of a store and beat him, slashed his neck and left him to die and they they have the gall to say

"Thus, we find that defendant and his accomplices did not engage in a ‘course of conduct’ involving the intentional infliction of extreme physical pain.”"

He was convicted by a jury of his peers and the city reduced it.

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Did you not read the article you linked? You make it seem like the guy you mentioned will just walk free. The article says the state literally could not make the legal case for first degree murder (requiring an element of torture), and so the guy will be sentenced for second degree murder. He still faces life in prison.

Gotta love the ol mta

Where is the full video ? From what I see here, the attack looks more like some grabbing and pulling and definitely does not look brutal .

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But they paid consultants $900m to find that they could save on concrete costs by building smaller tunnels. It was a worthwhile investment of $2.8 billion, the consultants said.

I believe the victim is autistic also.

so the comfy nice trains only go to penn station? and the shitty ones go to grand central?

In my experience a loud shout of “HEY KNOCK IT OFF” and “5-0, 5-0 RUN” is good enough to get everyone to stop for a couple seconds assess and run away it’s worked a couple times on and off the subway

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Also fighting a group of kids if you intervene. If you lose you can lose 1v1 but if you get the upper hand 5 more are going to jump in