NYC subway fare beaters easily crawl under, hop over turnstiles equipped with MTA’s new anti-evasion bars
Rule-breaking riders are easily dropping to all fours to slip under turnstiles that the MTA equipped with new crescent-shaped ...
MTA tries shields to stop subway fare evaders weeks after adding turnstile spikes
The MTA is trying something new to deter fare evaders just weeks after installing spikes on some subway turnstiles.
MTA installs metal shields on turnstiles at NYC subway station in latest feeble attempt to stop fare beating
I do understand why they did it that way because it’s probably inexpensive for them,” a rider said. “It’s just adding a small ...
MTA tests new ways to block subway turnstile jumpers, ‘back cockers’ and more
The MTA estimates it loses around $285 million a year to fare evasion in the subway system — due both to turnstile jumping ...
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To fund NYC subway fixes, MTA must undo decades of distrust
MTA Chair Janno Lieber is heading to Albany on Thursday to ask lawmakers to fund the largest construction program in the ...
‘It’s an appalling betrayal’: Is the MTA tracking thousands of New York City schoolchildren through their metro cards?
The student’s school notified the parent about suspicious OMNY card use activity, said S.T.O.P. Executive Director Albert Fox Cahn. This system would only be feasible, he added, if student locations ...
New Yorkers Keep Dying From ‘Subway Surfing.’ What’s Being Done About It?
More than a dozen New Yorkers, many young boys, have been killed or badly injured in recent years while attempting to climb ...
Recent spate of NYC transit attacks has straphangers rattled — despite NYPD subway surge: ‘Just a way of life in New York now’
It’s getting scary down there. Despite deploying hundreds of cops into the subways, a spike in violence has seen straphangers across the Big Apple slashed, shoved and beaten in at least seven attacks ...