[JustAnotherFan]

Millions of jobs have been lost in the goal of saving lives.  Why should NYC be treated differently.  Given the number of deaths in NYC, they should have been more agressive than the rest of the country in mitigation efforts.

I generally agree with martyup here (how about that!?). They should have shut down the subways.


However, if you were going to keep them open you should have done the following:
1. Do not require people to go through turnstiles or even touch the displays to buy MTA cards. You can do this by ...
2. Make it free to travel the subway by opening all of the gates at each station. Anyone who has lived in NYC knows how often the gates are open for people leaving the station. Just cut the alarms and keep them open all the time. Don't worry about who has the right badge.
3. Do not cut the number of trains. In NYC they cut service so the people coming from poorer neighborhoods into Manhattan to work were still crammed together in cars, breathing down each other's necks (more likely form of transmission than touching surfaces), even though ridership supposedly dropped. 
4. Get the cops out of the subways. NYPD has been one of the primary vectors and they are too touch feely.

[JustAnotherFan]

Millions of jobs have been lost in the goal of saving lives.  Why should NYC be treated differently.  Given the number of deaths in NYC, they should have been more agressive than the rest of the country in mitigation efforts.

I generally agree with martyup here (how about that!?). They should have shut down the subways.


However, if you were going to keep them open you should have done the following:
1. Do not require people to go through turnstiles or even touch the displays to buy MTA cards. You can do this by ...
2. Make it free to travel the subway by opening all of the gates at each station. Anyone who has lived in NYC knows how often the gates are open for people leaving the station. Just cut the alarms and keep them open all the time. Don't worry about who has the right badge.
3. Do not cut the number of trains. In NYC they cut service so the people coming from poorer neighborhoods into Manhattan to work were still crammed together in cars, breathing down each other's necks (more likely form of transmission than touching surfaces), even though ridership supposedly dropped. 
4. Get the cops out of the subways. NYPD has been one of the primary vectors and they are too touch feely.