The MTA’s faregate experiment at the Sutphin Blvd.-Archer Ave.-JFK subway station is showing results — a 20% reduction in fare evasion, say MTA officials, who attribute the improvement mainly to the ...
The chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority defended its much-mocked new subway gates and emergency-exit timers as the authority estimates losing $690 million to fare jumpers. Chairman ...
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- The MTA has been rolling out pilot programs targeting fare evasion and trying to make riders feel safer. One such measure will put emergency exit gates on a 15-second delay.
More changes are coming to subway stations across New York City, as special emergency gates are set to go up in an effort to stop fare beating. Almost anyone who has taken the subway has likely seen ...
Emergency exit gates at three subway stations will soon take 15 seconds to open, MTA officials announced Monday, as part of an effort to crack down on the “super highway of fare evasion.” Transit ...
The MTA is trying a new way to foil fare flouters — sleeves to extend turnstile arms. The sleeves are the latest arrow in a quiver of turnstile modifications meant to keep evaders at bay while the MTA ...
The MTA plans to replace subway turnstiles with modern gates at 20 subway stations later this year, part of a push to crack down on fare evasion that officials say costs the agency more than $700 ...