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| MIT study: Subways a ‘major disseminator' of coronavirus in NYC |
| 2020-04-16 |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #22 That's why they put filters on cigarettes. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-04-16 22:17 |
| #21 I have always been against closed environments. If you recirculate air at least have system to clean and sterilize air. |
| Posted by: Dale 2020-04-16 19:42 |
| #20 #17 - Depends on which Trolley Line, the line from Santee to Petco Park only has assholes and miscreants when it picks up the aholes by El Cajon and Amaya and the Mission Valley transients :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-04-16 16:27 |
| #19 ..well, not everything was 'clean' on the Tokyo system. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-04-16 16:25 |
| #18 Aren't you glad we have these smarty-pants around to tell us this? I wonder how many millions in grant funding it took for these geniuses to figure this out. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2020-04-16 16:17 |
| #17 Never been on the New York subway. But I was riding the San Diego Trolley one day and conversing with a New Yorker who told me the trolley was much cleaner than the subway. Well, that tells me that the subway must be absolutely filthy because the San Diego Trolley is pretty damn disgusting and quite often way behind schedule. It's more of a novelty for homeless bums and juvenile delinquents than a serious means of transportation for commuters. Obviously, coronavirus must be under control before trains are a viable option. I still believe that civilized countries have trains but I should add that the trains must be maintained in a civilized manner. I was favorably impressed by the Tokyo subway. The riders were all clean, well-dressed and well-behaved. Nobody was intoxicated, smelled like pee or looked like they'd been sleeping in the bushes, which is often the case in San Diego. The trains run like clockwork, always on time, and they stop all over the city so that anywhere you want to go has a stop within walking distance. Dunno if it's running now, though. Probably not. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-04-16 15:49 |
| #16 #10 /\ Real "offense" doesn't generally begin here until the dreaded anti-neocon, pyramid of hierarchical needs comes out. Don't rattle Herb's cage. |
| Posted by: bbrewer126 2020-04-16 15:43 |
| #15 I remember 40+ yrs ago traveling the Red Line in Boston to my construction site in Boston. Nothing like a tool back full of clanking tools and swinging a crowbar to bring politeness back to the mob. 8^) |
| Posted by: AlanC 2020-04-16 15:21 |
| #14 'Construction workers outnumber NHS staff': Fury at Sadiq Khan for 'doing nothing' as Tubes farce is now daily routine - but he insists he 'can't run more trains' |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-04-16 11:35 |
| #13 Boston is a world class city when compared to shitholes such as London, Rome, Peking, Chicago, San Francisco and Philly. |
| Posted by: Regular joe 2020-04-16 09:58 |
| #12 #10 - Mod Snark O' The Day entry |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-04-16 09:54 |
| #11 NO!! NOT THAT .... ANYTHING BUT THAT CONE NO NO NOOOOO |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-16 09:37 |
| #10 /\ Real "offense" doesn't generally begin here until the dreaded anti-neocon, pyramid of hierarchical needs comes out. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-04-16 09:33 |
| #9 None taken, Lex - you're gonna have to do a lot better than that to offend this cat! |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-04-16 09:28 |
| #8 I love the subways there. And it's not a liberal thing. After one particularly bad blizzard New York decided rightly to go underground. That being said, the rapid air movement in the tunnel platforms. Bad place to be right now. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2020-04-16 09:09 |
| #7 (no offense to Raj and other Beantiwn denizens, but, I mean, really...) |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-16 09:06 |
| #6 A "world class city" that shuts down at midnight and whose glitterati consist of Woke lit professors at the local college? |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-16 09:05 |
| #5 One of my buddies thinks Boston is a 'world class city'. I'm like 'Dude - really? Look up at the scoreboard.', and that usually ends the debate right then & there. |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-04-16 09:01 |
| #4 "Holmes - how do you do it! Amazing!!" I haven't used the T in Boston for about a year now; not bloody likely I'm getting back on the Red Line anytime soon. Given the past eighteen months with train derailments taking out a switching station to the multiple train car fires on fifty-year old trains that are always running behind schedule and now this shit, I'd rather pay $25 - $41 to park in town. |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-04-16 08:58 |
| #3 Duh |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-16 08:42 |
| #2 Mass transit is a classic example of a beloved liberal-leftist idea that will not be allowed to fail no matter how bad it is for public health or public finance. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-16 08:36 |
| #1 ...no kidding? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-04-16 06:32 |