overnight subway closures heading towards an end:
OPINION
Lives back on track: The temporary closure of the subway should end, but tough-love tools to help the homeless must remain
By DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL BOARD
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 22, 2021 AT 4:05 AM
The four-hour overnight closure of the subway, in place since May 4 due to coronavirus, has now been scaled back to two hours, from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. That’s great for late night and early morning riders, including odd-shift working stiffs who suffered a significant inconvenience. The two-hour shutdown era shouldn’t last long.
During it, deep cleaning of cars and stations will continue, as will the other silver lining of the new policy: delivering better options to homeless people who otherwise were bedding down in the subway. Neglecting folks with crying mental health and substance abuse problems on trains and platforms might have seemed humane, but it was the opposite.
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