{"id":668,"date":"2006-02-07T09:23:05","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T17:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/damn_strollers.html"},"modified":"2006-02-07T09:23:05","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T17:23:05","slug":"damn_strollers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/damn_strollers.html","title":{"rendered":"Damn Strollers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily News reports that the new emergency exits<\/a> in the subway — equipped with “panic bars” — are being used extensively by people pushing baby strollers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Straphangers with strollers and packages are pushing “panic bars” to open gates because they sometimes offer the quickest and easiest route to the street, transit officials said yesterday.<\/p>\n

A prime location for such a maneuver is the Bridge and Willoughby Sts. exit of the Lawrence St. station in downtown Brooklyn. A stroller-pushing rider is confronted with three options: try to squeeze through a narrow, ceiling-to-floor turnstile; walk more than 200 feet to the staffed token booth and ask a clerk to be let out, or crash through one of two marked emergency gates.<\/p>\n

Loud alarms sound when the gates are opened, which at Lawrence St. happens about 25 times a week, authorities said. But the piercing alerts end in seconds, when the gates close.<\/p>\n

“I have no idea who is using them,” a clerk in the Lawrence St. booth said. “I can’t see back there. The alarm goes off, then it stops.”<\/p>\n

About 20 stations have the emergency gates. The goal is to have every exit in the 468-station system rigged with at least one panic bar by the end of the year, said Gricelda Cespedes, a manager in the Transit Authority’s stations department. The TA is drafting instructions for clerks on whom to notify if an alarm goes off.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An aside: why does Brooklyn seem to get all the cool<\/a> new<\/a> subway stuff?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Daily News reports that the new emergency exits in the subway — equipped with “panic bars” — are being used extensively by people pushing baby strollers: Straphangers with strollers and packages are pushing “panic bars” to open gates because they sometimes offer the quickest and easiest route to the street, transit officials said yesterday. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","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=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}