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Coaster commuter trains to outlaw alcoholic beverages
Chicago’s Metra needs to do this. I have encountered far too many boorish people boozing it up on Metra…even on weekends when it’s banned! And I’ve seen conductors openly ignore people breaking that prohibition on weekends when drinking on board is banned…people drinking right in front of the conductor and he/she ignores it…it would be easier just to ban drinking on board altogether.
Rule of the blue noses.
I rode Metro North for years - stand up bar cars and alcohol sales in GCT.
Never saw a problem.
There may be problems,but they’re few - at least on MNCR.
Maybe Coaster and METRA need a better class of drinker.
Get on the train to commute home, drink during the entire trip, then get in your car and kill somebody while driving drunk. Have any of these commuter agencies been sued for “overserving”? It’s no different than a bar that overserves, and gets charged later.
If the conductors were given enough back up to throw disorderly drunks (or disorderly sobers) off the train (at a station stop OR NOT) this wouldn’t be a problem.
I recall one time on the Coast Starlight when a drunk had been bothering a lady in the lounge. The conductor took away the bottle, and warned him to behave. Shortly thereafter, the same guy grabbed another lady. The conductor stopped the train in the middle of a corn field and threw the bum out! We all cheered!
Selling alcoholic beverages has been a tradition on The New York Central, New Haven, Penn Central, and Metro-North Railroads both on the train platforms and in the bar cars. Metro-North and CDOT recently received 405 of the new M-8 cars of which 12 can be converted into bar cars if CDOT riders want to pay for the conversions.
Now they can drink in town and drive drunk to Oceanside. If a passenger causes trouble they can stop and let the police deal with them.
Nonsense. Deal with the disorderly patrons, don’t penalize the public at large for the problems of the few. I have seen conductors throw disorderly passengers off the train many times on the NY&LB, and not at the stations where they were intending to leave the train. An unplanned foggy visit at 8:30pm to Long Branch or Red Bank will put your problem into perspective if you really intended to travel to Belmar.
Drinking is not banned on Metra on weekends. Only on certain holidays.
Alcohol is NOT The Magic Drink of Happiness.