Father pulls toddler from LIRR gap BY JOHN VALENTI john.valenti@... Email this story Printer friendly format March 1, 2007, 9:28 AM EST The Long Island...
It was a 4 year old...a typical 4 year old would probably fit through a 6" gap with no problem... Why weren't the parents holding his hand? Steve Wechsler |...
There have been about 900 gap accidents since 1995, which amounts to about 1.5 GAP accidents per week. The LIRR will not release any details (why - make them...
Yes, the trend is that 6.25 times per month there is a GAP accident on LIRR property, over the last 12 years. You know a few details about maybe five - and are...
Well if the shoe fits... While I am sure not all of the 900 incidents since 1995 are occasional users, it seems that the issues that seem new worthy have, at ...
I would like very much to see the data. I would bet that the stories that have been in the news recently are not representative - but that is just a guess...
In a message dated 3/1/2007 2:15:31 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, steven.wechsler@... writes: It was a 4 year old...a typical 4 year old would probably...
I know I haven't posted here in a while but it seems like I've been seeing a lot of service advisory emails pertaining to pedestrian accidents recently. Not...
Yes indeed, I notice a trend. Tourists see the gap and they jump into it! Seriously now, a conductor on the 5:55 Penn express to Long Beach regularly uses...
LIRR Service Resumes After Fatal Accident Posted: Friday, 02 March 2007 9:01PM BETHPAGE, Long Island -- The Long Island Rail Road has resumed service in both...
According to LIRR workers I have talked with there is about one death per week on the rails (on average, somewhere, not necessarily a passenger). The GAP...
I doubt it's really covered up. It's more that people don't usually care. I don't know the exact numbers for week by week on NYCT but suffice to say that there...
It may not be "covered up" in the sense that they are erasing or losing data (though they might be), perhaps obscured is a better word. In any case it is not...
That's assuming that there is something inherent in the station design that makes it dangerous. I would guess that the two things that make a station dangerous...
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that it is not the station design, just a confluence of some other factors. If that was the case, and if there were a...
Let's just say for the sake of argument that A. Stetson's argument has some element of truth to it. Yes, the Fail Road should know better than to have these...
Ask your fellow "brothers" why...Or it's just typical MTA waste. Remember the $25,000 army toilet seat? ... Marcellino, ... DVR ... spend 1.3 MILLION?...
The thread you refer to was discussing ALL accidents, in general, not just gap accidents. My point was that without having the data be available no analysis...
Sorry - There was a miscalculation on the ridership - injury post, it is corrected below. The original post referred to the accident rate as per "million ...
I was on the 5:55 a couple of times in the past two weeks. I especially like the "Folks, I just can't stop talking about this clean train campaign!" The double...
Well, is Jamaica a possible answer when talking about "Customer Rides"? I think (although again, I could be wrong), that most riders on MNRR have a one seat...
That is an interesting idea and again I would like to see the data to check on that. The LIRR also has a much higher, though not 2-1, rate of customer injuries...
I agree that personal responsibility is key, but some of the gaps between the train and platform at Penn are massive. I can easily envision a scenarion in...
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