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http://www.metro.us/us/article/2010/04/13/03/4956-85/index.xml (http://www.metro.us/us/article/2010/04/13/03/4956-85/index.xml)
This is horrible. I've been on NYCTA buses and trains a few times when passengers have taken ill and I have to say, the TA employees always did the right thing. A couple of incidents that come to mind was once I was on a crowded Bx-41 bus when a guy starts clutching his chest and nearly sliding out of his seat.. Folks immediately got the B/O to stop the bus. The B/O called the command center. Less then two min later two transit cops came running from the nearby 225th Street-WPR station, followed by FDNY firefighters (they always seem to arrive first or second) and then the EMTs shortly thereafter. They got us all off the bus, worked on the guy on the floor of the bus and a few minutes later, they appeared to have him stabilized and transported him to the ambulance.
Another time I was in my usual spot on the southbound D train (that is in the lead car, looking out of the front window). Someone on the train was having a seizure. The conductor got word to the motorman who contacted the command center. We were just leaving the 125th Street station for the long express run to 59th Street. Command center comes back and advises the motorman that our train would be met by transit police at 59th Street and that the track was all clear. We arrived at 59th Street and the transit police was there on the platform with EMTs (with a waiting stretcher). That was one of my proud to be a New Yorker moments.
Someone had a seizure on a SEPTA bus I was on, a Neoplan, back in the day. We did not keep going. We stopped and waited for the ambulance. When the EMT or whoever they are came, the man who had the seizure "stabalized" and "was fine", but everyone urged him to get checked out anyway.
It was unnerving, but not as bad as riding with a man who was in such a state (as the article stated) and ended up dying on the bus.