The public transport of the state of New York is the most dangerous in the United States, found a new analysis.
Between 2021 and 2023, the mass transport in the state of the Empire saw 23 deaths, 1,641 violent incidents and 1,759 injuries, for an average tabs of 17.5 hazardous incidents per 100,000 cyclists, lawyers of personal injury John Foy & Associates found in their analysis of the data of the United States transport department.
Illinois was no. 2 In the list of more dangerous public transport systems, with 13.3 incidents per 100,000 passengers, followed by Minnesota (11), Massachusetts (8.1) and Pennsylvania (4.9).
California, which was the only state to register more deaths from mass transit than New York, with 31 dangerous incidents of 31 diapers per 100,000 riders. The least dangerous traffic states were Arizona and Washington each, with 2.6 dangerous incidents per capita.
In New York City, the home of the MTA, the largest public transport agency in North America, only the undergrounds saw a daily passenger or 3.2 million from January 5 to January 8.
Joseph Giacalone, a retired sergeant from the New York Police, recalled the frightful period in the underground of the Big Apple.
“Around the three periods of three years 2020 and 2024, we had as many murders as we had done in the previous 20 years in the subway system of New York City,” Giacalone, attached professor at Penn State-Lehigh Valley recalled.
In 2022, the city’s subway system saw 10 murders, the highest number in 25 years. There had never been more than five murders underground in a single year between 1997 and 2020, according to the New York Police data.
Duration The Morning Rush on April 12, 2022, the madman Frank James, 62, lit a smoke bomb and opened fire in a meter car packed in Brooklyn, shooting 10 people and hurting a total of 29.
James was sentenced to life imprisonment for the attack planned and fed by the breed, the train N in Sunset Park, which petrified the city just when the restrictions of the pandemic had decreased.
More recent, an illegal migrant allegedly burned a woman in a Brooklyn meter.
The native of Guatemalia Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, has a battery to set fire to a 57-year-old Kawam debrina, and then observes that he burns, the duration of the attack of December 22, 2024 on an F train.
So far this year, the city’s traffic system has seen 50% more violations, with three, compared to two at this time last year, and an increase of 7% in Miss Remeanor assaults (409 vs. 382). In general, the crime decreased 18%, the second lowest level of the crime of the subway in 27 years, according to the latest Traffic Crimes report of the New York Police and a declaration of the department last week.
For the first time in seven years, there were no murders in the duration of the traffic system the first quarter of 2025, according to the statement, citing “an increase in the patrol of the New York police platforms and trains crime and violence.”
Within a period of three days last month, three men, one of whom believed they were homeless after being beaten by trains in Manhattan.
“The city’s subway system definitely has a success in recent years, and much of that is being at the foot of [former mayor] Bill de Blasio and [former city council speaker] Melissa Mark-Vivlerito and a couple of other members of the City Council, which basically decriminalized a lot of things and eliminated the police to do their job, at the same time. [the transit system] In a great refuge for homeless people, “Giacalone told the post.