Safe Removal of Sick/Ill Passengers on NYC MTA Subway Trains

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Dear MTA New York City Transit:

With utmost respect, we recommend a change in policy that allows the safe removal of passengers in need of non-life threatening medical attention from trains in transit that will allow trains to continue on schedule.

We do recognize that the MTA has already developed and implemented a rider education campaign to recommend that passengers who are knowingly ill to remain off of trains.

We request an open discussion of this issue in a public hearing before the summer months of 2009, during which the MTA would see large support for a solution to this issue.

Of note, this petition does not intend to:

-Diminish the quality care;
-Add to the liability of train crew members or the MTA;
-Negatively affect the speediness of care, or;
-Place any ill passenger in a more dangerous situation.

24 Signatures

Kenneth L. Cutts, Jr.
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
- Comments
- I would like to see this issue openly debated.
Linda Simidian
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
Turner Roach
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
Ivan
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
Duncan Pflaster
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
- Comments
- В
Eric Starker
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
Jacki Friedmann
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
Maria E Rowe
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
- Comments
- i've had this happen several times. i take the q/b from brighton beach but in many places they run on the same track, and on the weekends only the q runs. so when someone gets sick, the train (and all behind them!) stops and that train is my only option. i would say my train stops twice a year because someone is sick. i don't understand how sitting on the train, as opposed to sitting on a bench would help them any less. twice it's happened where someone got sick and they were standing. so the train stopped at a station, people cleared the way so the sick person could sit (on the train), and then waited for an ambulance. why not, walk OFF the train, sit on a bench, and wait for the ambulance and let the train GO?
Maria E Rowe
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
- Comments
- i've had this happen several times. i take the q/b from brighton beach but in many places they run on the same track, and on the weekends only the q runs. so when someone gets sick, the train (and all behind them!) stops and that train is my only option. i would say my train stops twice a year because someone is sick. i don't understand how sitting on the train, as opposed to sitting on a bench would help them any less. twice it's happened where someone got sick and they were standing. so the train stopped at a station, people cleared the way so the sick person could sit (on the train), and then waited for an ambulance. why not, walk OFF the train, sit on a bench, and wait for the ambulance and let the train GO?
Alicia Pires
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
Betty Hong
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
Matthew T
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
- Comments
- Regardless of sick passaengers or not, the MTA still performs under the poorest of standards.
May Ling Brantman
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
Carolina
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
Ron Spicer
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
Victoria
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
John Tortorella
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
Peter Liu
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
- Comments
- I just don't understand why the MTA can't just get the sick passenger off the train and into the train station, or at least give us more details than a vague "we have a sick passenger ahead of us".
Rachel Klingberg
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
- Comments
- I have waited an hour and even longer because sick passengers can't be removed from the train. Sometimes these people are just elderly and fallen asleep, not even sick! Yet we all still must sit there in the station because of this silly rule that they can't be removed. Take 'em out on a stretcher if you have to, just don't make the rest of us sit there for an eternity
Melanie Pena-Lagos
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
- Comments
- Why are all the riders inconvenienced by one sick passenger? They took a whole train out of service because of a sick passenger. Get them off the train and move along. It is affecting our employment and making us extremely late!
Raymond Lee
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
- Comments
- Real simple. I think there's no condition where you can't still get off the train with assistance. The 'sick' passenger can still receive assistance on the platform. Waiting for services to arrive on train vs platform. Not rocket science.
Chuck Jones
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
- Comments
- THREE TIMES IN THE PAST WEEK ON THE 4 AND 5 TRAINS IN THE MORNINGS DURING RUSH HOUR. RIDICULOUS!
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- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
- Comments
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Matthew D
- Do you currently commute on the NYC transit subway system?
- No
- Has your commute ever been interrupted by a sick passenger?
- No
- Comments
- Once i went on the G train and i waited 20min because some lady got sick on the edge of the platform when the doors opened. Then the train waited and waited and because of the lady i was late. There was a police booth but the cops didn't move her up to the street. The medics finally arrived but they took their time because the lady had fainted. Today i still hate the G train but because their are delays or trains are to far apart.