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 ...
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 ...
A viral video showing a woman trapped by her neck in a newly installed MTA fare gate has injected fresh political heat into New York City’s long-running war over fare evasion. The clip, filmed at ...
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 ...
A pilot program to replace subway turnstiles with high-tech entry gates has led to a major reduction in fare evasion, New York transit officials said, and 50 more stations will soon have them. By ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
The PATH will become the latest metro area transit system to install gates at turnstiles to prevent fare evasion. The current gates offer no deterrent to determined fare beaters, who vault over PATH ...