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New York’s MTA Might Ban Food On It’s Trains
A recent track fire left many passengers on the train trapped, and some injured. Because of this incident and many others like it, MTA Chair Joe Lhota is proposing a ban on specific foods to prevent further fires. “These fires all start with trash being thrown down there,” Lhota told reporters at Penn Station, “the goal is no fires, plain and simple.”
As of now, the MTA seems to be discussing only banning specific foods, while implementing education on which ones should not be brought onto the subway. They are also testing “portable vacuums” as a way to more efficiently clean the debris that does reach the tracks in order to prevent fires.
There’s no word on which foods might be “banned” from the MTA and which will remain allowed, but they expressed that packages items like protein bars make less of a mess than things like take out containers.
You can delay our trains, but you can’t take our Bacon, Egg, and Cheese!….okay, maybe you can.
