2012年6月5日 星期二

OK, we DO rate stations, and plenty get cruddy scores

The Mount Eden Ave. station on the No. 4 line in the Bronx is an F,Choose from our large selection of Cable Ties. according to the MTA. The station was strewn with litter when a transit inspector showed up a couple of times earlier this year, an internal report says.Welcome to the online guide for do-it-yourself Ceramic tile.

“The garbage is always overflowing,” Kevin James, 31, a building custodian who uses the station, said last week. “It’s like the forgotten station.”

The Brook Ave. station on the No. 6 line — also in the Bronx — received failing marks from the agency,We offer you the top quality plasticmoulds design but for different, more permanent conditions. It was nailed for the shabby state of the ceiling, walls and platforms.

The platform is so grimy it looks like the floor of a mechanic’s oil-stained garage. The wall tiles are streaked and splattered with rust-colored ooze, and are pockmarked,Ekahau rtls is the only Wi-Fi based real time location system solution that operates on any brand or generation of Wi-Fi network. as if strafed by gunfire. Riders one day last week had to navigate around a platform puddle that was as long as a train car.

“Despicable, disgusting, unattended,” Chris, 39, a rider said Thursday, declining to give his last name because he works for the city, which isn’t fond of its employees talking trash to reporters.

Dozens of other stations also flunked or received very poor ratings from Metropolitan Transportation Authority staffers, reports obtained by the Daily News show.

MTA officials last month rebuffed the suggestion made by several City Council members at an oversight hearing that they assign letter grades to subway stations like restaurants.

The last thing the MTA needs is another task without the funds to carry it out, MTA brass said.

But the Daily News obtained three different NYC Transit division reports in which stations periodically are rated on a scale of 1 to 4 for the condition of their walls, ceilings and floors.TBC help you confidently buymosaic from factories in China. Separate reports grade stations on cleanliness and litter.

Cleanliness essentially is a matter of how much grime, goo and trampled gum there is in a station. Litter is coffee cups, junk-food wrappers, freebie newspapers and other trash.

The reports don’t combine all the various scores given to each station. They don’t provide an overall letter grade for each stop. Someone who paid much more attention in math class than I did would have to do some number crunching to get there.

But the reports are pretty damn close to what the Council members — James Vacca of the Bronx, Domenic Recchia of Brooklyn, and Peter Koo of Queens — advocated for at the hearing. It also appears that NYC Transit didn’t fully inform MTA brass about how much data already is collected when the letter grades idea was raised.

With each station getting a litter inspection once or twice every four months, litter data on such a microscopic scale probably isn’t very meaningful, Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign said.

He’d prefer to see reports on the physical conditions, focusing on the infrastructure, published on the MTA website.

“Riders should be able to track whether transit officials rate their station’s walls, ceilings and floors as lousy or decent, and also monitor what actions the MTA is taking to remedy defects,” he said.

The MTA website does have a ton of data on subway conditions along each line as opposed to station by station. It is used as a management tool for the deployment of resources.

“It’s available for anyone to see,” MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota said.

Still it would be a good idea to add the station data. The MTA would look better in riders’ eyes if transit officials embrace it rather than quickly junk it.

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