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MTA tests out new subway gates designed to keep fare-jumpers out

Por: New York Post Nation December 05, 2023

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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has installed its first harder-to-jump fare gates at a Queens station as part of a test of potential designs aimed at stanching the fare-beating crisis from the agency’s coffers last year. The new array at the Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue station replaces the decades-old turnstiles with barriers that feature taller paddles that make them harder to jump or crawl under, which swing open and then close... + full article



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