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Earlier this year the MTA blamed the freebie dailies for a spike in track fires. Yesterday they went a step further saying that discarded piles of the papers were largely responsible for the Sept. 2004 flooding that shut down most of the system.
“We have bitterly complained for a long time about what we call the free newspapers,” board member Barry Feinstein said after presenting a report to Chairman Peter Kalikow.
The papers aren’t supposed to be given away on MTA property but often times the hawkers make their way down into the subway, sometimes just leaving their stack in the station, or worse, on the platform. According to the MTA, the unread stacks then usually make their way to the tracks, clogging drains and creating fire hazards.
It will be interesting to see if this report will spur the MTA to create new, tougher guidelines and enforcement for distribution of the free dailies? The Post and the News surely wouldn’t mind that crackdown, since apparently their papers are fireproof and don’t clog drains.
MTA PAPER WAR [NY Post]
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Want a neat little picture by your comments? Get one here.In a related story, the MTA today blamed the people waiting for their trains for their trains running late.
Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 at 3:04 pm | Permalink
well that would be pretty stupid for people to be standing around waiting for nothing. c’mon.
Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 at 3:08 pm | Permalink
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