MTA eyeing emergency exit gates in effort to squash NYC subway fare evasion
The MTA’s faregate experiment at the Sutphin Blvd.-Archer Ave.-JFK subway station is showing results — a 20% reduction in fare evasion, say MTA officials, who attribute the improvement mainly to the removal of an emergency gate through which fare evaders often entered the Queens train stop. The new gates, installed in December, replaced one bank of turnstiles at the station with motorized, ...