While we’re at it, can we ban fat out of shape slobs from the subway? I’d like to walk up the stairs with out a face full of wide-@ss.

They need to put more damned trash cans on the platforms!! It wouldn’t be so terrible. There is what.. one, two trash cans..always overflowing, on every platform? More trash cans please, that would help a little bit MTA..just sayin

Subway should ban food. Have you ever had their meatball sub? ugh!

I thought it was already illegal but if it isn’t she probably should have left her alone to eat.

Oh get off your high horses already. The people doing the most complaining are most likely doing the very same thing. First of all there aren’t that many police officers riding the train who could arrest that many people. And what if the smells of food are wafting through the subway car while in the bag and you’re not eating? Are you going to complain about that as well? Bunch of whining cry babies. What next arrest mom if she give her baby a bottle on the subway? Ban babies from the subway altogether? Just keep the train car clean, keep your mouth shut and get to your destination alive. <3

no eating and thats the moral truth?

Here is one that needs addressing Bloomberg people have no social etiquette, Cut more teachers this will help. You should force social etiquette 101 in schools.

I guess that wold make sense since you are so worried about smoking and everything else except the good working peoples quality of life in this city.

This seems like a no brainer ! No eating food on the subway ! Soooo gross ! Our subways are gross enough from peoples germs etc.

then ban eating on lirr and metro north as well

the supposed clean train campaign on the lirr -one ride to hicksville that announcment was made -looked under a seat and saw an empty six pack
and sandwich and potato chips everywhere

I would love to see food and drink ban from the Subways. Its about time.

This should have been nipped in the bud after the terrible 60’s & 70’s when graffiti gangs ruled the subways, and the NYC transit system was the laughing stock of the nation, if not the world.

The food ban works fine here in DC. You cannot eat on the platform or on the train and other than a few overzealous enforcement actions over the years the rule seems to have worked out fine.

I ride both the DC and NYC systems fairly frequently and I must say, not having to sit and watch (smell) someone eating during my trip makes for a much more pleasant journey.

OH POLLLLEEEEEEZ, just because the white fat whale that got a beat down for antagonizing the two ghetto fabulous girls eating…this is a free country, and you live in NEW YORK, hellllooooo, this is not a police state! Some people don’t have time to eat unless they eat on the run…maybe we should be focusing on more important things…like robbery, rape, abuse of children, then spend money and time worrying about what people eat…get a life!

Please subway cleaning crews are lazy anyway. They just board the train and sit down during the summer and winter. they clean nothing. Theres no reason why there should be garbage one stop after the first stop.

Haven’t anyone noticed there are less people cleaning the subways because Tom Prendergast wants to save his managers. The line managers are gone because people were able to call them and complain.

Ban on eating?
Maybe.
Ban on drinking NON intoxicating beverages, NO WAY !!!
They drink and eat on the LIRR and Metrop North (some Metro North trains even have open sales bar cars.
Any ban should be for ALL MTA riders, not singling out subway riders.
Also, banning non toxic drinks in the warmer weather, when the subway platforms can get to 120 degrees F, can be dangerous.
Non toxic drinks should never be banned from the subway.
Can you immagine waiting during a delay without water?
NO WAY!

The subway animals eat 6 course meals on the train. Only a low life would feel okay eating a meal in the germ infested and crowded subway. Low Life meals of choice-Chinese in a styrofoam container, smelly jerk chicken, fried chicken and of course McDonalds.

ANIMALS!!!!

Oh please. Rats are going to be in the subways and sewers anyway. Thats where they live and hide. If people don’t bring food down and throw it on the ground it will drop from the street through the grates on the ground or rats will find it from above and bring it down anyway. Cant stop the rats from breading and eating. It’s going to happen. Plus if you keep them away from the subway they will surface and take the streets for food. Then what ban food from being eaten outside as well. It also doesn’t help that the outside food vendors throw there food water down on the streets.

I’m not the who will be name calling but blacks are not the only ones that eat or drink on the train. I ride the mta and the llrr and i think both blacks and whites ride the trains. If you ride the llrr they have thieir share of garbage too. They eat sandwiches, salads, drink coffee and let’s not forget they drink beers too. So BOB white have no social etiquette . They stand over you with i cup of coffee and newspaper in one hand try to hold on the pole with the other OH i alomost forgot and still trying to drink that damm cup of coffee. I can go but i have to make a living.

Good move MTA and Police they need to get involve to crackdown all the train riders and the station as well. Passengers should not allow to eat or drink anything on the platforms and inside the trains and buses Especially School kids like junk foods for example McDonalds,Chinese foods Chicken wings French fries,Heroes sandwiches,Chips sodas,juices and sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds They should be fine for littering the subways hefty penalties that why we having rats running around the subways.And Adults as well likes pigs and don’t have a bag to put their food garbage and put it to the trash cans whey they leave the stations.

The MTA will approve the ban so they can collect more money from tickets. The police on the MTA are tax collectors and this will be another tax. I saw a man get a ticket for switching cars through the interior doors on a train while the train was stopped in a station. Cheap shot by the police. Had nothing to do with safety and everything to do with revenue.

Good idea which I’m sure all the food vendors in the subways will not like!

the new york subways are rat infested anyway,,hunan rats that are filthy, drugies, murderers, wanabes gangs, muggers and any rifraf the city produces in quantitys unlimitted. most are black, as they don`t have anything better to do,,unedecuated and illeterate.

Let’s be honest. It has nothing to do with the rats or garbage. It has everything to do with the lowlifes that have no social etiquette. These animals think nothing of taking out a tuna fish sandwich, or bag of fried chicken, or whatever else and eating like they are in a restaurant. They are pigs.

What, no more spaghetti?!