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As temperatures drop in the Big Apple, a new heat wave has begun in the metro.
As usual during the cold season, excessive heating in metro stations and cars caused temperatures to rise and passengers wearing winter clothes to sweat.
“It’s very uncomfortable… it’s horrible. People are sweating,” Monica Chavez lamented on her daily commute from Throggs Neck in the Bronx to her office at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Hell’s Kitchen.
The newspaper rode the railroad with a thermometer for two days this week, regularly recording temperatures in the mid to upper 70s. But on Thursday, the northbound 6 train between 14th Street and 33rd Street, the northbound 4 train between 14th Street and 23rd Street, as well as Grand Central Station, Union Square Station, 33rd Street Even on the station platform, the mercury reached 81 degrees.
“I recently came across a situation where a gentleman was sweating too much, so I did this,” Chavez, 53, said, wiping his forehead with his hand. “And I was dripping with sweat! And I thought, ‘Oh my god!’ I really hated it. ”
The director of operations and programs said that when a subway car comes to her station, she always avoids the second subway car from the front because “it literally has to be at a 100-degree angle.”
“It’s like an oven,” she said. “I don’t know if, but [the MTA] Know how to manage temperature differences. For years, it’s always been a problem. ”
Patrick DeGrace, 60, of Gramercy Park, agreed as he burned inside a burning No. 6 train between 23rd and 33rd Streets. “I feel like the subway as a whole doesn’t do a good job of regulating temperature, both in the summer and in the winter. I think they’ll realize that at some point, because they’ve been running packed stations for years.”
Savannah, 24, who lives in Higashi Village and goes to Fidi five days a week, calls herself “the number one supporter of subway cooling.”
“It’s cold outside, so I wear clothes that are appropriate for the climate, and I sweat while commuting. It’s so annoying,” she said.
According to the MTA, HVAC systems operate automatically based on data from temperature sensors that “trigger the system to turn on heating or cooling.”
“When the environmental temperature is high, [in the subways] “If it becomes difficult to maintain body temperature within normal range, it can become dangerous,” warned Jeremy Hess, an emergency medicine physician and professor at the University of Washington.
“Overheating can lead to heat exhaustion, cognitive decline, and even heat syncope (loss of consciousness due to heat) and, in severe cases, heat stroke,” Hess said, adding, “Some people may not be able to predict It could overheat faster than that.” ”
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