Subway Death & Disease: Why Not Enforce the Rules?

THE ISSUE: Gov. Cuomo’s order to shut down the subways each night to manage unhygienic conditions.

Two deaths in our subway within 12 hours of each other. How many more deaths will there be (“Death on the subway,” May 4)?

This is totally unacceptable. The subway is a breeding spot for the coronavirus because of the close quarters one has to travel in and the homeless people who are sleeping on the subway platforms and in the trains.

I would like to see our governor and our mayor together go into the subway and see firsthand how bad it is. Robert Johann

Queens

Nicole Gelinas raises good points about why subways shouldn’t be shut at night (“No Lights Out,” PostOpinion, May 4).

Why doesn’t the MTA simply enforce the rule on the books that people can’t sleep on trains?

That would prevent subways from being used as mobile flophouses a lot more effectively than closing the system to force the homeless off. Ken Klinger

Bayside

Gelinas is correct that closing down subways overnight is a step backward.

Was it that front-page picture of the homeless and their possessions that embarrassed the

governor? It’s been this way for years, but he ignored it from his perch in Albany, as did the mayor.

Cleaning procedures and rules against sleeping already exist. Cuomo’s focus should be on protecting workers. Phil Serpico

Queens

Cuomo’s desperate attempt to make the subways spotlessly clean is too little, too late.

This should have been done decades ago. Does it take a tragedy like this pandemic for him to wake up and realize the subways are a health hazard?

This big clean-up project won’t work because the homeless will go right back on the train. Kevin O’Leary

Kew Gardens Hills