Bed Bugs Spotted Across Multiple NYC Subway Lines
Make It Stoooop! Bed Bugs Have Now Reportedly Spread Across Multiple NYC Subway Lines
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Bed Bugs Spreading Across Multiple NYC Subway Lines
If you live in NYC and take the subway, you’ll want to ride at your own risk of seeing a bed bug, according to new reports.
via NY Daily News
Another day, another bedbug found in the subway.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials have been very reluctant to talk about bedbugs in the transit system. It’s a story they wish would just go away. So we’ll rely on undercover transit sources to bring you the first-ever BugStat.
There were at least 21 reported bedbug sightings or encounters in the subway in August — including a few incidents in which a bloodsucker bit a conductor or a rider, sources said.
According to these transit insiders, there were nine sightings on N trains, three on Q trains and two on No. 6 trains. The itch-inducing insects also were spotted once each on Nos. 3, 4, 5 and L trains, the sources said.
In addition to riding the rails, bedbugs were found in transit worker crew rooms and subway offices in Astoria, Queens, and Coney Island, Brooklyn (N and Q lines), and Euclid Ave., East New York, also in Brooklyn (A line).
“We’ve never had sightings to this magnitude,” said Joe Costales, a chairman with Transport Workers Union Local 100. “We’ve had isolated incidents in crew quarters, but it’s no longer an isolated scenario. It’s throughout the system.”
A couple of transit workers believe they have unwittingly brought bedbugs home from the job.
The MTA has steadily downplayed the significance of its insect ridership. It’s just a small part of life in the big city, officials contend.
“The subway system has 5.5 million riders every single day and we can’t check all of them for bedbugs before letting them on the train,” MTA spokesman Adam Lisberg said in early August. “That said, when we get reports of bedbug sightings, we investigate — and exterminate. This is an interesting story but not a big problem.”
On Friday, the chief spokesman pretty much said the same thing, although the math was slightly different.
“More than 5.8 million people ride 8,000 subway trains on an average weekday, but the MTA has found no bedbug infestations on any trains, and has found and treated bedbugs on only 16 trains,” Lisberg said.
“Not a big problem???” Really?? SMH!
