While fires remain higher than we would want them to be, the trend of lower month-to-month increases shows that our increased attention and efforts to remove debris from the roadbed is being met with some success.
If you see smoke on the platform you are not going to stand there and wait. If there is a real emergency situation, people are going to know on their own, or our people will get them out. It's not really an issue of a public address system.
NYC Transit has been exploring various anti-terror initiatives, including the use of alternative means to collect refuse in the system.
We believe that surveillance cameras do have a deterrent effect on crime.
We meet with the police department on a regular basis and present issues of concern to us, and they are responsive to the overwhelming majority of those concerns.
The diligence of the NYPD Transit Bureau in fighting crime is slowly becoming the stuff of legends. We work very closely with the NYPD in all their initiatives and they are very receptive to our concerns ... and have devoted the necessary resources.
