New York – New York transit officials are chewing on the notion of a subway snacking ban — and that’s heating up the political rhetoric.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is weighing food restrictions, or even a ban, after a trash fire on the tracks crippled subway service on Monday.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday a food ban wouldn’t be fair.
MTA Chairman Joe Lhota (LOH’-tuh) told the New York Post (http://nyp.st/2tKfStq ) that the mayor’s comments are “incendiary.”
Lhota says moveable feasts “feed the rats” in addition to the humans.
Lhota also says police should do more to enforce littering violations. De Blasio favors public education.
The two men have a history as political opponents. Lhota, a Republican, ran for mayor but Democrat de Blasio won in 2013.
If I remember correctly, the Gemorah says people who eat in public are like dogs. The solution isn’t to ban food on the subway, although I would welcome that. The solution is to teach kids in NYC public schools more propriety of how to behave in public. I can tell you that when I have to walk among public school kids, before they notice me they can be very rowdy and loud, but when they notice me they very politely make room for me to pass, so the kids are getting some good training from somewhere. They should notch it up a bit.
Why not just ban all humans from riding the subway? Then, there would not be the problem of bringing food onto the trains.