{"id":2151,"date":"2007-02-27T09:33:50","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T17:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/02\/blame_the_victim.html"},"modified":"2007-02-27T09:33:50","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T17:33:50","slug":"blame_the_victi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/blame_the_victi.html","title":{"rendered":"Blame The Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MTA wants you to know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/501091p-422572c.html\">you, the rider, are one of the biggest reasons its trains are delayed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Subway riders behaving badly is a leading cause of train delays, transit statistics reveal.<\/p>\n<p>More than 4,270 trains were thrown off their schedules last year because riders blocked subway car doors from closing in stations, according to Transit Authority statistics. It&#8217;s now the fifth-leading cause of delays, up from 20th place just five years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Unruly behavior as a cause for sluggish trains, meanwhile, spiked in December, moving into the top 10 reasons for tieups.<\/p>\n<p>Transit officials said they couldn&#8217;t explain what appears to be an increase in boorish behavior on the rails.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really annoying,&#8221; door-hold victim Steve Cunning, 24, said yesterday at the Union Square subway station. &#8220;Just this morning at 51st St., this guy put his foot in the door to hold it for his friends, who were like a minute behind him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cunning, a stockbroker from Manhattan, said most of his fellow riders meekly accepted the slowdown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was gigantic, so there weren&#8217;t that many comments, and if there were, they were from way in the back,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Daryl Johnston, 46, who was waiting for an uptown No. 5 train at the Wall St. station, called for aggressive enforcement of TA rules against impeding the flow of trains.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s wrong,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They should be given a ticket.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The TA records a train as delayed if it arrives at its terminal station at the end of the line more than six minutes late.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pot . . . kettle . . . pot . . . kettle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MTA wants you to know that you, the rider, are one of the biggest reasons its trains are delayed: Subway riders behaving badly is a leading cause of train delays, transit statistics reveal. More than 4,270 trains were thrown off their schedules last year because riders blocked subway car doors from closing in stations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}