The MTA's ongoing battle to stop fare evasion will bring spikes and half-moon-shaped plastic paddles to almost every subway station turnstile in the city, agency brass said Monday. The devices aim to ...

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 ...

Stand clear of the closing snorts! The MTA will dish out $7.3 million to expand its anti-fare evasion gadgets to nearly every subway station in the five boroughs — even though rule breakers have been ...

At a demonstration of devices designed to replace turnstiles, one rider got hit in the neck, and another sneaked through without paying. By Stefanos Chen In a damp corridor of the Broadway-Lafayette ...

A fiscal watchdog group found that deterrence measures are starting to have an impact on the practice, which has surged since the pandemic. By Taylor Robinson The Metropolitan Transportation Authority ...

SEPTA is trying a new turn on an old problem: fare evasion. Modified turnstiles are being piloted at Walnut-Locust Station in Philadelphia as part of an effort to make fare evasion more difficult.

In January 2025, subway riders at the 59th Street-Lexington Avenue station in Manhattan noticed a surprising new addition: spiked metal partitions between each fare gate. Some commuters called the ...