…and when I posted yesterday, I had no idea at the time that that poor woman had died under a 4 train. But can I ask a question?
You know how all the reports are like, “The engineer saw her on the tracks but couldn’t stop”? (And I always feel sorry for that guy, too.) I’m not quite clear on what civilians are supposed to do if we see someone on the tracks like that. Is there a call box? A procedure? Can’t someone go to the token booth and tell them to stop the incoming trains? Because it seems like this always happens — like the person’s been on the tracks for a while, but the train just comes in anyway, and the engineer can’t brake in time.
I think the MTA needs to work on a procedure for this, because from what I can tell, she’d fainted, come to, and was trying to get up onto the platform when she got hit, and it seems to me as though someone should have alerted the conductors well before that.

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