Mayor Bloomberg yesterday said he’ll lead by example and rode the subways despite increased fears in the city about a new terror strike.
“Today I’ll probably take the subway four different times,” Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show on WABC-AM.
Earlier in the day, the mayor hopped on the N and R line in Midtown and took it down to City Hall.
“If they see me, then they’ll say, ‘Well, if the mayor can do it, I can do it,” the mayor said of the city’s straphangers.
“Somebody said to me, Oh, they weren’t going to take the subway. I said: ‘Why? It’s quick, it’s safe, it’s clean. It’s a bargain.’ “
On his radio program, the mayor sought to calm one caller from Brooklyn who wondered if she should allow her son to take the subway to St. Francis College because of the potential of a biological attack.
Bloomberg said transit officials already had strong emergency evacuation plans in effect.
“If you get scared, if you run away, then the terrorists win,” he said.