Stand clear of the closing doors, please! A bumbling straphanger became trapped in an MTA turnstile gate at a Manhattan subway station after the doors clamped on either side of her neck as she ...
The MTA is looking into replacing New York City's subway turnstiles with gates that would physically open and close to let paying passengers through. The agency revealed renderings from four different ...
These gates aren’t scaring away fare beaters — case closed. The MTA’s new subway gates are already getting blasted as “easy to beat” — as even an elderly man with a cane was spotted easily skipping ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — As part of an ongoing effort to reduce fare evasion, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has laid out a slate of enforcement efforts, with the most prominent being the ...
The MTA started deploying unarmed gate guards across New York City's expansive subway system in 2022 in an effort to shut down a "superhighway of fare evasion" — emergency exit gates. Since then, the ...
It has been almost two years, but the MTA is keeping active a “prototype” modern gate system designed to stop fare evasion, but it is seemingly no match for anyone determined to cheat the system. The ...
Nearly every subway turnstile in New York City will soon be fitted with metal shark-like fins and plastic paddles designed to make it harder to skip the fare, MTA officials announced during a meeting ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- The MTA will install jagged metal partitions and plastic paddles on every subway turnstile in efforts to reduce fare evasion. The barriers have been installed at 327 of the city's ...
These gates aren't scaring away fare beaters — case closed. The MTA's new subway gates are already getting blasted as "easy to beat" – as even an elderly man with a cane was spotted easily skipping ...