How does a train event derail a whole commute?

Forest Hills: My ride home on Tuesday turned into a 3½ hour ordeal starting at the W. 4th St. station on the F line. The train lingered for about 30 minutes before pulling into 14th St. From there, I ran to take the E, not knowing that service on all lines heading toward Forest Hills was disrupted because of a passenger being struck by a train. That’s all we heard!

Then the E was rerouted on 42nd St., so I was told I could take the No. 7 train to 74th St. and Roosevelt Ave. and change to the E or F. But when I finally got there, a rope was across the stairwell and staffers were saying there was no service to Forest Hills. Thus, I was deposited outside with hundreds of stranded commuters, where I had to wait for a Q53 bus to transfer to a Q60 bus. Why were passengers falsely told to take the No. 7 to transfer to an E or F when service had been suspended? And how could one incident have led to a systemwide disruption that so many commuters were subject to? Also, whenever the F’s conductor made an announcement, no one could hear what was being said. I thought this glitch was being addressed.

I left the city around 5:30 p.m. and walked into my apartment at around 9. I could have flown somewhere else in less time! Ron Gersh

Bronx: I’m a retired MTA subway train operator who unfortunately ran over a few passengers on the tracks. Anyone who pushes a person to the tracks with the possibility of a horrific death or injury should be seriously punished. They can also traumatize the train crew and first responders. Considering the nature of such deaths and injuries, there should be a special category of murder charge for such fiends who push people onto the tracks. Kevin Harrington

Queens Village: I’m getting very tired of turning to the editorial section of the paper and seeing Be Our Guest columns all over it. I have a subscription to the paper to read your opinions, not columns by biased individuals with an ax to grind regarding their own causes. Besides, you already have a Voice of the People section for this. Please, enough already. Let’s hear the opinions of the Daily News. Darren Leeds

Hamilton, N.J.: You guys are slipping. I had to wait until page 3 before I saw something negative about our president. Come on, man, you can do better. Gene Ammirata

Beacon, N.Y.: Under the buzzword “affordability,” Gov. Hochul is trying to dismantle the fully-planned but only partially implemented Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). The prospect of their customers’ independence from the price-volatile and globally vulnerable gas and oil industries has these companies’ lobbying groups gushing money to draw the governor into their toxic orbit. If you compared apples-to-apples costs of the CLCPA vs. pre-CLCPA, or even the cost of slowing down the CLCPA, you’d have to add in the enormous tax hit to consumers of more than 100 years of subsidizing fossil fuels. Forget how much the CLCPA will cost ratepayers, because that’s pennies compared to what we’ve already been charged to continue supporting oil and gas. The rest of the world is leaving us behind as we remain stuck in the same pro-oil/gas delusion that’s dragging us backwards. It’s time to move on. Christine Arroyo

Valhalla, N.Y.: Those two teenagers trying to harm and kill innocent people should be severely punished (“Luxe lives before bomb busts,” March 11)! But instead of giving them life sentences and sticking taxpayers with long-term bills, have them deported to an ISIS extremist area and let them see how that life really is. Tag them, and if they ever try to return to the U.S., stick them in the worst jails possible. Their lives are ruined at such an early age, and they should never be forgotten for the ruthless, terrible acts they tried to carry out! Michael Grisanti

Yonkers: Every time Hochul opens her mouth, she shows herself to be two-faced. Soon after the attempted terrorist attack by two teenagers of Muslim origin, she made sure to lecture us on white supremacy only because there was a handful of demonstrators who were protesting the growing Muslim population in New York. Her entire speech should have centered on the ISIS-inspired attack on America, but her only concern seems to be the unconditional support of Mayor Mamdani and his followers. Hochul is a fake! And maybe it’s time to take notice that Hochul takes the white vote for granted. Voters should remember this when the next election rolls around. Nicholas Maffei

Clash of civilizations

Brooklyn: The war against Iran, an Islamic country, and the unfortunate election of Mamdani, a Muslim, to the NYC mayoralty have resulted in a fresh wave of Muslim-hatred within the nation’s Judeo-Christian population. This is perfectly understandable considering Islam’s revived war against Western civilization. This war has been continual since before the time of the Christian Crusades in the 11th century. Recent events are only the tip of the iceberg. We haven’t been attacked in like manner by Christians, Jews, Shintoists, Sikhs, Jainists, Hindus, animists, Satanists or any other groups acting upon religious beliefs. Attacks have been almost exclusively perpetrated by Islamists. Once bitten, twice wary. If you want to be respected, act respectfully, otherwise you’ll reap what you sow. Stan Rosenson

Tel Aviv: In light of near-unanimous consent that Iran should be prevented from acquiring nuclear weapons, it’s imperative to locate and confiscate its stockpile of 60%-enriched uranium. If and when that happens, present hostilities can end. Otherwise, if that material remains in Iran’s possession, a central aim of this war — if not its main, rightful justification — will not have been achieved, and “victory” claims by the Trump administration will ring hollow. Richard Robinowitz

Manhattan: Israel has suffered the same fate in Gaza as Samson: self-destruction while destroying the enemy. Although blinded, Samson in death reaffirmed the meaning of his life; it’s not clear whether the Zionists have seen what they must do. Calev and Simeon Myers (“A Judeo-Christian alliance for Israel,” op-ed, March 9) shill for Jews to hitch their wagon to a falling star — Christianity — which in my lifetime has declined in U.S. believers from more than 90% to about 60%. After 100,000 German Jews fought for Der Kaiser against the Allies in the First World War and were rewarded a couple of decades later with the Holocaust, it’s strange to read about maintaining a “Judeo-Christian civilization.” Besides, the likelihood is that Jewish (as well as Christian and Islamic) monotheism owes a debt to Persian (i.e., non-Arab) Zoroastrianism. Michele P. Brown

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