Subway Rider: Operator Let Child Drive Train

NBC New York:

Driving a subway is so easy an 8-year-old could do it -- and one straphanger claims that's who he saw behind the controls of his train.

Jules Cattie, a 41-year-old lawyer who lives on the East Side, was shocked when he saw a young child at the helm, next to the driver, of his Lexington Avenue express train Sunday, according to the Daily News. And the MTA says it's launched "a vigorous and thorough investigation" into the allegation.

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Comments

[oakley9]

12:23 PM on 07/29/2009

I doubt the kid was really driving.
The guy was probably just letting the kid think he was driving.
My dad use to let me think I was driving.