The Issue: State Sen. Bill Perkins’ bill proposing a $250 fine for eating on the subway.
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Bill Perkins saw someone eating and throwing food on the subway tracks, so he proposed a new law (“Pol Push To Ban Eating in the Subway,” Jan. 29).
There is already a law against this — it’s called littering. Let’s enforce the laws already on the books and not take away more freedom from law-abiding citizens.
Gapare Randazzo
Staten Island
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The DC Metro has never allowed eating — in fact, I was given a warning for merely carrying an open water bottle. Yet thousands ride it every day, and so far no cases of malnutrition as a result of the ban have been reported.
You will survive.
Susan Lord
Lancaster, Pa.
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There are more important things to deal with, like maintaining basic services, so folks in Perkins’ district can actually get around.
Politicians want to increase their power by having more unenforceable regulations that breed disrespect for those who enforce them.
How are those on welfare and the unemployed supposed to pay these steep fines?
L. Daniels
Manhattan
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Perhaps it would be better for one’s health not to have to eat on the run, but not everybody has that luxury.
Eating on the subway is for some an economic necessity. For others, it is a means to boost one’s efficiency.
It’s a lie that food makes the subways dirty. The subway is clean or dirty depending on how much attention the MTA pays to keeping it clean.
Brenda Pena
Queens