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NEW YORK CITY — In an effort to reduce fare evasion in the subway system, the MTA has said it will install spikes and plastic paddles on subway station turnstiles at nearly every station. The MTA will ...

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 ...

Three models of modern fare gates that the MTA is testing across several subway stations have reduced fare evasion by 20 percent to 70 percent, depending on where they were installed, agency officials ...

These fare hoppers going for the long jump! A ragtag group of quirky jocks leaped over the MTA’s new subway turnstile gates at an event dubbed the “Fare Evasion Olympics” — to prove how wildly ...

The MTA’s new “modern” fare gates have claimed yet another victim, this time catching the head of a 5-year-old girl, sending her to the hospital with swelling, according to her mother and the FDNY.

Faced with the eye-popping loss of hundreds of millions of dollars from fare evasion, the MTA is set to unveil a new high-tech system for catching people who don't pay. Chairman Janno Lieber said ...