For years, the MTA has insisted that subway-platform doors just don’t work in New York. Now a pilot program is on its way to three stations, including Times Square
Photo: Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images For years, the MTA has insisted that subway-platform doors just don’t work here. In 2012, then–MTA chairman Joseph Lhota went as far as to say that the expense and scale of installing barriers at the platform edges in all 472 stations would make them “not something I think we’ll see, quite honestly, in your lifetime or my lifetime.
Joe Lhota is an apparently healthy 67 now with quite a few years ahead of him, and this morning his successor may be proving him wrong. Lieber, appearing on NY1, said that barriers will go up in a test at the Times Square 7 and Third Avenue L stations in Manhattan and the Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport stop on the F in Queens.
The number of people shoved onto subway tracks has spiked: 30 people in 2021, up from 20 in 2019, when ridership was significantly higher. As is all too familiar, we are looking to build our way out of problems rather than addressing mental-health issues at their root and perhaps getting people who would either jump in front of a train or shove a fellow New Yorker onto the tracks some aid before it happens. But the barriers, undoubtedly, are a start. Let’s see how well they work.
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