Pockets How Deep?

Pretty deep. A lot of trips to the tailor:

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has had nearly 87,000 personal injury or property damage claims from customers since 1996, resulting in $1.1 billion in settlement costs, according to a report issued by the state comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, yesterday.

The claims over the last 12 years include $285,046 paid by the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad to passengers who tore items of clothing on armrests of the M7 train cars that service those lines.

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An MTA spokesman, Jeremy Soffin, responded to the report, saying, “The MTA’s ultimate incurred cost for employee and customer accidents is less than what would have been expected, a savings of approximately $335 million from 1997-2007.”