Platform barriers are a ridiculous dodge of an ‘answer’ to subway shovings

[Kamaji]

Platform barriers are a ridiculous dodge of an ‘answer’ to subway shovings

By NY Post Editorial Board
January 24, 2022

Even after another horrific subway-shoving death, this time Michelle Go in Times Square, New York progressive pols flinch from confronting the real threat, namely that the city lets dangerous mentally ill people roam free.

Instead, they want the MTA to install platform barriers.

Every time such horrors strike, politicians rush to send the message that they care, while avoiding the ideologically inconvenient obvious.

Thus Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine and all 10 members of the borough’s City Council delegation urge MTA Chair Janno Lieber that elaborate, expensive barriers “be given the priority they deserve, studied and funded for installation.”

Their letter claims that “density and crowding of subways . . . makes our stations more vulnerable.” No, that's not it. Shovings took off during the pandemic, when the crowds were gone.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/01/24/platform-barriers-are-a-ridiculous-dodge-of-an-answer-to-subway-shovings/

[Free Vulcan]

Well this is a Jimmy Carter moment.

Wear a sweater people!

[IsailedawayfromFR]

This is the way leftists think.  Never blame evil people.

The stupidity of barriers to keep people from being shoved on the tracks is the same philosophy as requiring trigger locks on all guns to prevent accidental discharge.

Both entails tremendous cost and inconvenience with questionable benefit.  Evil people will find work arounds for both anyway