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- How NYC Is Trying to Stop Subway Fare Evasion: Spikes, Fins . . .
Spikes, Fins, Guards: How New York Is Trying to Stop Subway Fare Evasion Subway and bus fare evasion cost New York’s transit system nearly $1 billion last year
- Spikes, Fins, Guards: How New York Is Trying to Stop Subway . . .
Every minute in the New York City subway last year, 330 riders hopped, ducked or dodged the turnstile In a system running around the clock with 472 stations, that added up to 174 million stolen rides — more than a third of the $1 billion lost to fare and toll evasion in 2024, according to the Citizens Budget Commission, a fiscal watchdog group As transit ridership continues to recover from
- MTA will roll out new fare evasion tactic on buses next year
On subways, the MTA has deployed unarmed “gate guards” at 208 subway stations, Hochul said The MTA expects to install fare gates at 20 more stations in 2026 and 150 stations by 2029
- Fare evasion: How are unarmed gate guards stopping cheaters . . .
The MTA started deploying unarmed gate guards across New York City’s expansive subway system in 2022 in an effort to shut down a “superhighway of fare evasion” — emergency exit gates
- New York’s subway is waging a war on fare evasion with . . .
For now, the retrofitted gates and guards appear to be working: Subway fare evasion across the entire network dropped by 30% in 2024 “How far do we have to go?” The New York City
- MTA Rolls Out More Rented Guards to Beat Fare Evasion
The MTA has doubled the ranks of private security guards posted near subway station emergency exits that officials call the “superhighway of fare evasion ”
- MTA’s built-in delay for emergency exit doors aims to curb . . .
The MTA is expanding its effort to curb fare evasion by adding a built-in delay to emergency exit doors at more than 100 subway stations
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