As more people are vaccinated, the next step is to resume round the clock service in coming months hopefully by June. Safety and security of the riding public should always be the number one priority. It should never have taken the potential spread of the corona virus for the MTA to properly clean equipment and stations. The best time to clean subway cars is off peak or overnight when a majority of the fleet is not in transit service. Pre-COVID-19, millions of New Yorkers rode the subway, bus or commuter rail. The odds increase for spreading a communicable disease when you are trapped pre-COVID-19 on a crowded bus or subway for long periods of time. Between homeless on board and pre-COVID-19 rush hour standing room only crowds, they need to be thoroughly cleaned on a 24 hour basis. MTA Chairman Pat Foye’s having transit workers deep clean the entire system using an “enhanced daily cleaning procedure,” or scrub strategy, should have been the norm for years.
They clearly have little ability to maintain personal hygiene. The rise of a growing homeless population, who ride our subways and live at stations have made matters worse. “We have determined that a shortened overnight closure is an appropriate step forward towards the return of around-the-clock service.”Įveryone has known for decades that the subway, bus, commuter rail and ferries are a Petri dish for catching a cold, the flu or other communicable diseases. “One year into the pandemic and 10 months into our overnight closure, New York is starting to look at a return to normalcy…,” she said. The reduced, two-hour period will still provide crews with enough time to disinfect the system, Interim NYC Transit Authority President Sarah Feinberg said.įeinberg indicated that the MTA would gradually return the subway to 24-hour service as New York City reopens. The MTA decided to suspend 24/7 service across the whole system in an unprecedented move last May in order for crews to deep clean and disinfect subway cars and stations on a daily basis.
to 5 a.m., MTA Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye said.
each night - a decrease from the current four-hour nightly shutdown, from 1 a.m. Starting Monday, the system will be closed for just two hours, from 2 a.m. The four-hour overnight subway shutdown that has been in place for roughly 10 months will be reduced beginning Monday, Feb. The MTA is reducing the subway’s overnight shutdown period and expanding its hours of operation, state officials announced today. Worker cleans subway car to prevent the spread of COVID-19 (MTA)
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