They hide more than they tell you.

       Ever been on the train you look up to one of the ads and see the one that informs you how many people have been hit by a train. Then they tell you how many of those hits were fatal. That really makes people want to be more careful about standing near the ledge. Now you don't have any more to worry about if you just take a few steps back. Now if everyone did that then that statistic would surely go down, no one getting hit, and no one dying. Whenever I lean out to look for an oncoming train, there is always that fear of falling over that makes me pull back after a few seconds. I remember once while in high school having to look for the train many times, but never saw a train. Then they told us that there was a problem with the train and it would no longer be ruining. It took me two hours to get home that day (that train was the only way to get to a closer train line). We were so frustrated with the train that day, many of us kids talked about how the service stinks, and how they cannot keep their trains from breaking down.

          Later we found out that at another stop someone purposefully jumped in front of the train to die.    Yes, that person committed suicide. That is something that if you looked at that add right now on the train, it would not be represented with a number. "Suicide by subway is the leading cause of straphanger deaths — representing 51 percent of all fatalities, an analysis of three years of MTA data shows."(Buiso) It is easy to believe that you cannot fail killing yourself if you jump in front of a train. That should be instant death. That is not the case, yes getting hit full force by a train will kill you, but sometimes the train isn't running that fast, or you a waiting on the tracks, so only part of you gets hit. The MTA is not doing enough to prevent suicides, nor does it seem to admit that it is a main reason for train deaths. They just tell you to be careful and to step back. If everyone did this then 100 percent of train fatalities would be by suicide. They would probably pull their ads and just neglect to tell people they are killing themselves in the subway. They of course would never see it happened, nor would they be prevented from getting home.

Works cited

 Buiso, Gary."Suicide is leading cause of subway-passenger deaths: MTA data." 

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