Simon Martial is accused of shoving Michelle Go to her loss of life within the Instances Sq. station at West forty second Avenue and Broadway.
J.C. Rice
The Problem: A girl who died after being pushed in entrance of an oncoming prepare on the Instances Sq. station.
I used to be horrified to listen to in regards to the homicide of Michelle Go, by all accounts a stunning particular person — pushed to her loss of life within the Instances Sq. prepare station (“Horror monitor assault,” Jan. 16).
It appears in recent times, an increasing number of individuals have been pushed to their deaths within the subway.
There are a lot of points such because the homeless and mentally ailing using the rails. Nonetheless, why hasn’t the MTA put in platform display screen doorways, as they've in Tokyo, Paris and plenty of different cities?
Sure, it’s costly, however can you actually put a worth on the general public’s security and peace of thoughts? Or on Michelle Go’s life?
And the way a lot cash would it not save in the long term if there was no extra trash on the tracks (purchasing carts!) nor suicides?
Erica Marcus
Manhattan
Simon Martial, a homeless, mentally unstable man, mustn't have been out on the streets in New York Metropolis.
The mayor can dispatch as many law enforcement officials to the subways as he likes. Nonetheless, till we get the mentally unstable and the profession criminals off the streets, these horrible crimes will proceed to occur.
I’ve lived and labored in New York Metropolis all my life and have taken the trains many instances, which had been comparatively secure. At present, it’s not like that.
Rob Johann
Queens
What a horrific cesspool of heinous crime the subway system has devolved into.
When individuals pay a fare to journey on the subway, the expectation is that their security is not going to be compromised.
Nonetheless, it's fairly evident now that a subway tour may cause you bodily hurt and fairly presumably your life.
Efforts to curtail such circumstances by politicians have been futile and lackluster in implementation.
An aggressive revamping of subway-security and homelessness initiatives must be formulated and executed in an expeditious method. Till then, bedlam will proceed and the consequential deadly horrors will mount.
Denis David
East Rockaway
Now we have progressed to a state of affairs in New York the place it's thought-about a radical notion that the subway system ought to be restricted to fare-paying clients who're touring from one cease to a different.
We select, at our peril, to disregard the truth that the subway system possesses distinctive options that demand an enhanced degree of order and safety to function safely and guarantee public confidence within the system.
Albert Knaus
Manhattan
The legacy of de Blasio’s eight-year mayoralty shall be with us for years to return.
Of all of the issues he did to destroy the standard of life for New Yorkers, his failure to handle the proliferation of mentally disturbed individuals roaming our streets and subways charges excessive on the record.
One more harmless and unsuspecting soul was tragically shoved in entrance of an oncoming prepare to her loss of life by an deranged particular person who was clearly in want of psychiatric remedy and confinement.
The motion to deinstitutionalize the mentally ailing must be reevaluated and refined if we're to have any hope of constructing the town secure for individuals like Michelle Go, whose life ended so senselessly whereas she was simply ready to board a prepare.
Thomas City
Wantagh
At Instances Sq., a younger girl was pushed in entrance of a prepare and killed by a homeless and probably critically mentally ailing man.
There are some individuals who must be in a psychiatric mattress, not on a prepare, the road or jail.
There may be sufficient blame to go round, however rectify the scenario now by growing the availability of short- and long-term psychiatric beds, rethink the dedication legal guidelines and implement the availability “incapability to look after self” as a consequence of psychological sickness as a motive to decide to remedy.
If we do nothing, these tragic, preventable occasions will proceed to happen. We will’t proceed to let these critically ailing and harmful individuals “rot with their rights on” and create havoc on our beforehand secure subway and streets.
Laura Logue Rood
Manhattan
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