$7.3 million deal to install anti-hopping \u201cfins\u201d to existing turnstiles. <\/a><\/p>\nA red X appears when a straphanger exits the doors. Robert Miller<\/p>\n
The smart doors are composed of two clear doors that open once the rider pays and are equipped with overhead scanners that make sure only one person passes through per swipe.<\/p>\n
If the system senses something is off \u2014 like one person going in as another attempts to walk out, or riders going in close together \u2014\u00a0the doors slam shut and set off a blaring alarm.<\/p>\n
The MTA is aiming to install the gates in 20 stations in the coming days, eventually putting them in 150 total.<\/p>\n
While simple in theory, the new doors are not without their kinks.<\/p>\n
A camera overhead scans the number of people walking through to prevent multiple riders from sneaking through on a single swipe. Robert Miller<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just really confused. I didn\u2019t know what was going on. I think it\u2019s because I was crossing with someone else \u2014 It would have been easier\u00a0if you weren\u2019t rushing,\u201d said Toronto tourist Anmolar Rahman, 26, who set off the alarm as she tried to walk out of the subway.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very loud. \u2029And\u00a0it\u2019s not easy to understand what\u2019s going on.\u00a0I was just caught off guard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ethan Trinidad, 20, from Long Island, said the doors will do little to stop fare beaters, pointing to viral videos of straphangers storming through the open doors in a tight single-file line as the alarm blares.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a waste of money,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not really solving a problem that I feel exists.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a waste of money,\u201d rider Ethan Trinidad said. Robert Miller<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Vanderhorst of Manhattan agreed, saying \u201cthere are ways to hack the system.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cThis ain\u2019t gonna stop train hoppers.\u2029Train hoppers have their ways,\u201d Vanderhorst said.<\/p>\n
Not all riders were pessimistic, however.<\/p>\n
Ian Andrews, 29, originally of the UK but living in Brooklyn, called the switch an \u201cimprovement,\u201d noting it was strikingly similar to the system in the London tube.<\/p>\n
Owen Barbagallo, 20, a student living in Manhattan, admitted that fare beaters could theoretically crawl beneath the doors to skip the fare, but questioned how many were willing to do so to pocket $2.90.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you really want to climb under on the New York City subway? \u2026 The very dedicated ones, it probably won\u2019t stop, but the ones who are like, \u2018I\u2019ll do it because it\u2019s easy to jump,\u2019 that will definitely stop them,\u201d Owen said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think these are a good thing. I hope they get them into a bunch more places. It\u2019s cool to see them.\u00a0I do like the look. They\u2019re kind of sleek and clean, and they\u2019re very new and I like seeing new things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This sounds like another \u201cwaste.\u201d The MTA\u2019s new smart subway gates are already giving subway riders a headache…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,75,57,141,9,24,63,615,25637,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-77400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-manhattan","tag-metro","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-subway","tag-subway-fare","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77400","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=77400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}