How many people have to get slapped in the face before MTA chairman Jay Walder does something about the scourge of subway eating? Earlier this week, in the wake of the subway spaghetti scuffle video that rocked a nation, MTA board members discussed banning eating on the trains, in order to starve the rat population into submission and put the litterbugs out of business. Sure, it would be totally unenforceable unless city forms a special elite unit of MTA food police, but it seems that Walder lacks the political will to drive the eaters from the temple that is our subway system.
Today Walder told the Daily News, "I think we all have responsibility to try to treat our subway system and fellow riders with respect. I think that extends to food as well. This is a system that carries 5 million people a day, and I'm not sure a ban on food is really practical or enforceable." So we guess it's up to us to banish the stench of greasy Lo Mein and McDonald's french fries out on our own. Mob rule! And while we're at it, let's make an example of the fingernail clippers, too.
