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MTA testing out new turnstiles in NYC

Select subway stations around New York City will be testing a new type of turnstile for enter into the subway system. The constant upgrade of the subway system is a welcomed by all of the subway riders.


The MTA is looking for a design that is more user-friendly and accessible to all. This wider turnstile will help with wheelchairs, passengers with strollers and those traveling with luggage. This is not the final design, so we will be see other designs being tested around the city. This one was a pleasant surprise at Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, near the Barclay center.

New York to install surveillance cameras in every subway car 

New York Governer Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday a plan to install surveillance cameras in every New York City subway car by 2025. Hochul said, as ridership numbers are still lagging behind pre-pandemic levels. It also follows several highly publicized crimes that have occurred in the transit system, including the rape of a tourist on a subway platform this month; a mass shooting on a subway car in Brooklyn in April that left 10 passengers wounded; and the fatal shooting of a Goldman Sachs employee on a train in May.

The plan is to help bring back and increase ridership to the NY subway system. Some privacy advocates are worried about the cameras and say the cameras may not necessarily making the subway safer. Subway stations in the city already have surveillance cameras.

What are your thoughts on subway safety? And the installation of cameras on the actual train cars?