{"id":367195,"date":"2026-10-07T21:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367195\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T21:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T21:00:07","slug":"mta-installing-more-gates-in-nyc-subways-aimed-at-stopping-fare-evasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367195\/","title":{"rendered":"MTA installing more gates in NYC subways aimed at stopping fare evasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work to install new subway faregates at twenty more stations will begin by the end of the year, Gov. Hochul announced Wednesday \u2014 while touting a significant reduction in fare evasion at the locations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/12\/19\/mta-debuts-new-plexiglass-fare-gates-soho-south-bronx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">where the advanced fare controls are already installed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time a fare-beater steals a ride they\u2019re stealing money meant for our trains and our buses, to keep them moving; they steal money that pays the salaries of our union transit workers,\u201d Hochul said to reporters at the MTA\u2019s Consolidated Revenue Facility in Maspeth. \u201cWho foots the bill for the missing revenue? The taxpayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 10% of subway riders have skipped out on the fare in the past year, according to MTA data.<\/p>\n<p>High-tech fare gates have been in operation at 20 stations across the system for the past few months.<\/p>\n<p>Those new gates have reduced fare evasion at the test-stations by an average of 35%, Hochul said.<\/p>\n<p>At two stations \u2014 Nostrand Ave. on the A and C trains in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Hoyt St. on the Nos. 2 and 3 trains in Downtown Brooklyn \u2014 fare evasion has dropped by 72% at the entrances equipped with the new gates.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, the new gates \u2014 manufactured by three firms currently vying for a system-wide contract \u2014 replace the traditional rotating arms of a turnstile with sliding vertical doors. Would-be fare-jumpers cannot easily get over the doors, and a suite of cameras and sensors are meant to catch scofflaws trying to get under the gates or sneak through behind a paying passenger.<\/p>\n<p>The gates are also designed to make it easier for passengers with luggage, wheelchairs or baby strollers to get onto the platform.<\/p>\n<p>MTA\u2019s construction and development head Jamie Torres-Springer said the agency has seen an increase in passengers at the entrances with new faregates.<\/p>\n<p>The next set of 20 stations slated to get new gates at all station entrances, officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In Manhattan, those stations will be:<\/p>\n<p>14th St.-Union Sq.<br \/>\nthe 72nd St. and Chambers St. stations on the Nos. 1, 2 and 3<br \/>\nthe 86th St. and 125th St. stations on the Nos. 4, 5 and 6<br \/>\nthe Spring St. station of the C and E train<\/p>\n<p>In Brooklyn:<\/p>\n<p>the Coney Island-Stillwell Ave. station<br \/>\nthe Bedford Ave. L train station<br \/>\nthe Myrtle Ave. station on the J, M and Z<br \/>\nHoyt-Schermerhorn on the A, C and G<br \/>\nNewkirk Plaza on the B and Q<br \/>\n36th St. on the D, N and R<\/p>\n<p>In the Bronx:<\/p>\n<p>3 Ave.-149 St. on the No. 2 and No. 5<br \/>\n161 St.-Yankee Stadium on the B, D and No. 4<br \/>\nParkchester on the No.6<br \/>\nFordham Rd. on the B and D<\/p>\n<p>and in Queens:<\/p>\n<p>Astoria Blvd. on the N and W<br \/>\nFlushing-Main St. on the No. 7<br \/>\nForest Hills-71 Ave on the E, F, M and R<br \/>\nSutphin Blvd.\/Archer Ave. on the E, J and Z<\/p>\n<p>The MTA has budgeted to start installing new fare gates at 150 of the system\u2019s 472 stations by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Work to install new subway faregates at twenty more stations will begin by the end of the year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[85,267,9,24,264,10,12,56,63,65,64,608],"class_list":["post-367195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}