Members of Riders Alliance and subway riders, along with Queens City Council candidates, canvassed the Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue subway station on Wednesday, Sept. 1 in Jackson Heights, where they distributed postcards to straphangers and urged them to call their congressional representatives and demand that Congress pass H.R. 3744 – Stronger Communities through Better Transit Act during the current infrastructure legislation.
The canvassing action came at the heel of the recent subway “mishap” when a power problem shut down subway signal signs on several lines Sunday night, Aug. 29, stopping trains in their tracks and forcing the evacuation of a few hundred subway riders with the help of the FDNY and MTA. And just Wednesday night, unprecedented rainfalls proved how vulnerable the outdated subway infrastructure is.
