Word: motorman
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...Women are mothering and caring, and they do a better job on food," says Mike Riordan, a motorman from Florida. Alvin Moreau, a Cajun who is the safety-and-cleanliness officer, agrees. "The men appreciate being able to chat with women and hear female voices, and the atmosphere is more relaxed and so safer," he says. What the women appreciate is earning up to $19,000 for six months' work, which permits them to hold other jobs at home, to spend solid time with families or simply to vacation...
...Square subway station, where they quietly spread grease all over the tracks. The next morning, the first train that pulled into the station hit the grease and skidded right through the other side, taking its passengers to an unscheduled stop in the middle of a darkened tunnel. When the motorman backed up to see what had happened, the train slid through the station in the other direction as well. The ensuing snarl is supposed to have tied up transit officials and straphangers for hours...
...disagreement between MBTA management and the Carmen's Union began after a motorman wrote a letter to MBTA officials and three area newspapers saying that an error in a computerized train control system had nearly led him to run into another train parked in Harvard station...
...part of the other. Several months later his family retained Aaron Broder, an enterprising personal-injury lawyer, who sued the New York City Transit Authority for negligence. Broder acknowledged that Stephens had put himself at risk by jumping, but he was prepared to try to prove that the motorman had been negligently slow in stopping. "He certainly didn't do this intentionally," says Broder, "but sometimes people do not react quickly enough...
...necessarily, says Law Professor John Wade of Vanderbilt University, who helped write the model statute on which the New York law is based. Unless the motorman was guilty of gross recklessness, Wade contends, no jury would blame him. "Even if there was some negligence on the part of the subway driver," he says, jurors would cut the award "down to practically nothing...