A recently passed law in New York has made it legal to rest on stair railings in the subway. The city council has called this law the Real Rail Rest Regulation (RRRR), and as you can see New Yorkers are enjoying the benefits. Opponents of the RRRR argued that resting on railings would be dangerous. In their railing tests, at least five people were injured when they fell asleep, slipped off and were trampled on.
The MTA regulation states:
"In the event that you need to use a railing as you walk up or down stairs and a restee is on said railing - you should ask the restee to leave the railing. If they refuse to leave said railing you are entitled to strike them with hands, canes, or other objects until they move. It is also permissable to apply a small amount of lubricant to the railing. (See section 4.56.7 regarding how much lubricant is acceptable.)"
Also, to safeguard the restee, the MTA offers a physical test where an incline machine tests applicants at various inclination degrees and awards badges with the degree of allowed inclination.
If you are so inclined to take advantage of this new service - contact the Inclination Department of the MTA.
3 comments:
Lol UPP... Things like this makes me feel lucky that I dont live in America. And what is this law where you can rest on railings and that you are allowed to whack the restee if they refuse to leave, isn't there enough violence already? Why promote it with a law?
Its crazy
I work for the MTA and I can assure you that there is no such RRRR law. I believe Mr. Beckman was trying to be funny.
We do however have laws that prevent passengers from taking up too much room on our seats. Overweight passengers must apply for an exemption to this law and wear a badge that identifies them as being fat.
Many of the newer trains have special seats for weight challenged passengers. These seats are marked with with an oversized blue circle with the silhouette of an obese person in the circle. For further information, you may google MTA-FAT-PASSENGER.
that isn't much better than UPP or any other laws...isn't that what you call discrimination? how would you feel if you were vertically challenged and its something you can't help and then be told that you are some sort of physically challenged monster who needs a special pass to get a ride on the train? and also to be mentally challenged that you won't know where the seats for the monsters are located and to have a big oversize circle and silhouette of some other vertically challenged person to mark out where you as a vertically challenged person now dubbed dumb stupid AND fat have to sit. Pretty f**ked.
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