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MTA Using Bleach Liberally as it Combats Coronavirus on Subways

March 3, 2020 | 11:34 AM - Updated on June 5, 2022 | 11:44 PM
in NEWS, POLITICS
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Photo and commentary by @FashionistaNY.

Commuters got a whiff of bleach as they entered the 79th Street 1 train station on Tuesday morning, part of the state’s plan to sanitize the subways and slow the spread of coronavirus.

“The smell was slight but there and sort of reassuring,” a Twitter user named @FashionistaNY

“If it smells like bleach when you get on a bus or when a child goes to school, it is not bad cologne,” Governor Cuomo said on Monday. “It is bleach.”

An MTA spokesperson said the agency is “disinfecting stations, trains, buses and Access-A-Ride vehicles daily across the bus, subway, Metro-North and LIRR with our full fleet being fully sanitized every 72 hours.”

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ben
ben
5 years ago

The MTA really needs to be doing this every single day with or without the pandemic.

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Marion
Marion
5 years ago
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Excellent point. Thank you!!!

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MA
MA
5 years ago

There should be a fine mist of bleach emanating from turnstiles and train doors.

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Tom
Tom
5 years ago
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Get realistic people

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Emily
Emily
5 years ago

I think they should do this all the time and maybe we would have a more decent transit system! Just a thought

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JSV
JSV
5 years ago
Reply to  Emily

Never in the 20 years I’ve lived in NYC have I ever heard a single person say that the reason the transit system wasn’t good was because they weren’t disinfecting things often enough.

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Tom
Tom
5 years ago
Reply to  Emily

Get realistic

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Glorine Dobbins Edwards
Glorine Dobbins Edwards
5 years ago

Excllent. Will it be buses too?

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lcnyc
lcnyc
5 years ago
Reply to  Glorine Dobbins Edwards

Read the article.

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Weird That Way
Weird That Way
5 years ago

Golly, I’ll miss the usual flesh-eating bacteria . . . lol.

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charlieandcosmo
charlieandcosmo
5 years ago

Let me put one out there – hand disinfectant dispensers at the turnstiles? How cool would that be. Or maybe just have the guys who sell swipes start selling squirts?

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Debbie McCarron
Debbie McCarron
5 years ago

I wish they would clean my station 205 D Bronx

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Silvia
Silvia
5 years ago

But MTA should do it properly! Today in the morning I took a seat on the 6 train and bleach destroyed my coat and my pants!

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Cordcutter
Cordcutter
5 years ago

Yes!
Do this
every day,
all year round!

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Fair
Fair
5 years ago

Mta finally have some excellent idea to disinfect the subway stations metro north lirr,buses etc ..they should do each each week not for this virus, as live in nyc I have been commuting yrs by subway ..I take E train get out in west 4th station use an elevator ..each day see dirty floor inside ,smell of pee..sometimes pee in the elevator..mta employees never clean once in blue moon see cl clean floor but smell of urine always there ..hope they will notice this .

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Gail Mikell
Gail Mikell
5 years ago

It’s about time some of the stations smell horrible.

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kdiaz
kdiaz
5 years ago

They should do the same thing to the city sidewalks, so we don’t have to constantly be on the lookout for dog crap smears and urine streams.

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