The MTA Hates Pregnant Women

Somewhere deep in the corporate headquarters of the MTA, there's a bitter man (probably divorced with very limited visitation rights to his children) who hates pregnant women. He's decided to take it upon himself to do everything possible to make sure their subway/bus ride is a miserable experience time and time again. Here's his five step plan:

1. make the subway platforms extremely hot and humid, making an August day above ground seem like a cool, fall evening
2. in key "family" areas of the city (such as the Upper West Side), time the trains so that they come very far apart during peak times, thus ensuring that pregnant women have to wait in the sweltering heat and must then navigate themselves (and their belly) into a packed car
3. strategically place one smelly person on each subway car/bus so that pregnant women, with their heightened sense of smell, almost gag each time they get on
4. just as it appears that a pregnant women might pass out from being crammed into a packed car (frequently without air conditioning), stop the train or bus for a few minutes, citing some inexplicable reason
5. for the final touch, hire rude employees

Let me tell you, his strategy is working. I see very few pregnant women on subways and buses and I don't blame them. Most of them probably take cabs. Come to think of it, this MTA guy might actually have a secret deal with the Taxi & Limousine Commission where he gets 10% of every cab ride taken by a pregnant women.