New York, NY – People don’t like people who eat on the subway.
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Two MTA board members suggested that banning food and drinks on the subway was a good idea, since the rats and track fires they help cause are a big problem underground.
The idea floated Monday during a Metropolitan Transportation Authority committee meeting comes just days after someone posted an online video showing a subway rider tossing spaghetti at another passenger.
Some board members were concerned not only about the cleanliness of the system, but also scurrying rats and delay-causing fires tied to litter on the tracks.
The MTA needs “to think about the availability of food products to passengers, who then discard some or all of it on the tracks, on the platform,” board member Charles Moerdler said at the meeting. “They’re the cause of rats. They’re the cause of the fires. We have to do something to make it clear that the public has to wake up.”
The MTA’s NYC Transit division removes about 90 tons of trash from the system – a day, the agency said. Nearly 600 trains were delayed in January by track fires, transit data released yesterday shows.
Some riders, including Derrick Smith, 41, a custodian from Brownsville, Brooklyn, said they’d support a ban on food.
“How can you eat on the train?” Smith asked. “There are germs everywhere. People coughing, sneezing, and you eat your food?”
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First good idea MTA has had in decades. No one wants to sit next to some one drinking coffee on a crowded train and have their nice new suit get a coffee stain on it.
waste of time…..
all the other bans are not enforced, why will this be any different???
how many ppl do you hear on the train with their music blaring through their earphones?
how often do panhandlers solicit on the train?
i have seen ppl bring their pets on the train even though its not permitted….
shall i continue????
Doesn’t matter. They won’t enforce it.
How anyone can eat on a filthy subway platform and train is beside me. When you see the hungry rats down on the tracks sniffing for food scraps, banning all food from the subway and buses for that matter can only improve things.
The Rats Union won’t allow it.
The lady sitting next to me on the Q this morning was clipping her nails
City hard at work to extort peoples hard earned money
Nothing is more disgusting then getting on the train early in the morning and smelling an egg mcmuffin that someone is eating.
Banning food on the subway…great idea, never going to happen.
There is a website where you can upload all your cell phone pictures and videos of people doing disgusting stuff on the trains. Subwaydouchery
NYC is the only major subway system in the world that allows food and drink. I’ve lived in D.C. and SF (BART) and neither allows any food and routinely issues 50 dollar fines for violations.
This is very serious. Every other problem has already been taken care of and the world seems rather peaceful because of thoughtful leadership. Nothing short of a Kol Koreh will suffice.
Watch them start giving tickets to mothers giving their babies bottles.
How about women who polish their nails on both the buses and subways?? I have had them near me plenty of times and have wondered if I was going to go home with their nail polish on me. Their colors are not exactly my choice!! Blues, greens, purples!! Each to his own!! And what about the cups of coffee on the crowded trains!! One of these days, somebody is going to wear it!!
I take the Fairfax Area Rapid Transit (FART). It is the cleanest, best run transit system in the world. But boy, does it smell awful..!!!
I think we should ban people on the train. After reading all the comments here it seems to be a common thread running through the posts – people cause all sorts of trouble – therefore lets ban people on the trains!
Only a low life would eat on a train. I hope they do enforce it.
How about if a Diabetic feels low sugar and he needs to eat to avoid fainting on the train..?
I agree that there should be some common sense exceptions, like mothers feeding their infants. Also, on hot subway platforms, some need a drink to cool off and get re-hydrated. It seems better to more vigorously enforce anti-littering laws than to prevent people from having a morning coffee, thus affecting local businesses.
There was once a proposal on the table to fine the retailers as marked on the bags, cups & french fry holders. What ever happened to that?
That’s kinda funny.
I was reading somewhere else how America is getting too fat for public transit…
In the past, there were vendors who sold soft drinks and various snacks in the varous subway stations. Also, there were vending machines which would dispense soft drinks. Instead of banning food and soft drinks, why doesn’t the MTA simply ban the perverts, weirdos, freaks, and other miscreants, who ride the subway?
I hope they also ban people from smelling on the subway. There will always be these shameless people who will smell like rotten eggs in the summer packing themselves close to others during rush hour.
I think people can have their coffee either at home or on the platform waiting for the train. Then they have to dispose of it. In the hot water, only water bottles should be allowed. I do not think that water stains will stain bvaDLY. iF IT DOES, IT WILL PROBABLY DRY WHEN YOU GET TO WORK, BUT IT WILL COME OUT.!