A Riddle, Wrapped In A Mystery, Inside An Enigma At The End Of A Cord
MTA officials instruct riders never to pull the emergency brake, leading some to wonder what exactly it’s there for:
Posted: September 14th, 2006 | Filed under: Someone Way Smarter Than Us Probably Already Worked This One OutIn the event of an emergency, do not pull the emergency brake.
That’s the main advice offered by the MTA in the agency’s new evacuation instructions, being distributed at subway station booths and on commuter rail cars.
The message to wait for directions is now available in Chinese, Russian, Haitian Creole, Korean, Arabic and Urdu, as well as English and Spanish.
“Once the emergency-brake cord is pulled, the brakes have to be reset before the train can move again, which reduces the options for dealing with an emergency,” the instructions explain.
