Brutal NYC train operator stabbing prompts calls from union for MTA to ramp up subway safety

In one such incident last month, Robert Ray, 33, randomly punched a female station agent in the face in Midtown, asserting he did it since “due to the fact that the voices in my head were talking with me,” district attorneys claimed.

The city’s largest transit workers’ union is demanding that the MTA increase precaution at the end of metro lines in the wake of the ruthless stabbing of train driver Myran Pollack in Brooklyn last week.

Previously that month, a train operator was clearing a Queens train of guests so it could be taken to a lay-up location when a delirious commuter tackled him, knocking him to the flooring of the auto, authorities said.

“This recidivist actions is why the MTA has battled in Albany for harsher charges for crimes happening in the transportation system, and why we push for one of the most aggressive feasible prosecutions when clients, staff members and police are attacked,” the declaration claimed.

“These aren’t just suggestions– they’re life-saving measures,” Canella Gomez, TWU Resident 100 Fast Transportation Procedures Vice President said in a declaration. “Our participants need to never need to encounter these threats alone. We require more powerful plans and faster responses to maintain our people risk-free.”

Members of the Transportation Employee Union Citizen 100– which represents more than 40,000 bus and subway workers– rallied Thursday outside the Crown Heights-Utica Opportunity station at the end of the No. 4 line, the exact same stop where a recidivist assaulter stabbed 60-year-old Pollack two times on Oct. 8.

The current NYPD information– which covers the duration from Jan. 1 through Oct. 6– shows that assaults on MTA metro workers across the city have dipped to 30 from the 44 reported throughout the same period in 2023.